Conflict
Wednesday, January 8, 2014 - 06:53
One of its activities is building protective walls to shield homes from stray bullets, as people living near the front line are sometimes wounded or killed as they go about their daily activities.
Wednesday, January 8, 2014 - 06:46
French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Tuesday there is currently no need to send reinforcements to Central Africa, where it has 1,600 deployed troops to help defuse sectarian violence.
Tuesday, January 7, 2014 - 09:23
The U.N. Security Council is scheduled to discuss the situation in the Central African Republic Monday, amid mounting calls for a U.N. peacekeeping force to stop communal violence that exploded one month ago. More than 1,000 people have died and nearly a million displaced from their homes. French and regional troops in the CAR are not seen as impartial or entirely up to halting the clashes.
Tuesday, January 7, 2014 - 09:21
The worsening strife in the Central African Republic (CAR) with its Muslim-Christian overtones risks escalating into sustained violence along religious lines and spilling beyond the country’s borders, further destabilizing the whole region, the United Nations top political officer warned today.
Tuesday, January 7, 2014 - 09:18
Mozambique's former rebel movement, Renamo, has indeed re-activated its main base in the southern province of Inhambane, located at Nhamunde, in the locality of Pembe, in Homoine district, according to the independent newsheet, Mediafax.
Tuesday, January 7, 2014 - 08:34
We can't fully address the young country's failures with more peacekeepers or a power-sharing deal. Here's why Washington should launch a joint venture with Juba.
Tuesday, January 7, 2014 - 08:21
Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir is pledging his government will not support rebels in neighboring South Sudan.
Tuesday, January 7, 2014 - 08:19
Sudan and South Sudan agree to consider setting up a joint force to protect vital oilfields during the crisis.
Tuesday, January 7, 2014 - 08:16
The fighting in South Sudan has moved closer to the Uganda border after gunfire reportedly rocked Yei, a town just 120 kilometres from the West Nile district of Arua.
Tuesday, January 7, 2014 - 08:13
The Sudan People's Liberation Army was always a multi-ethnic liberation movement against Omar Al Bashir's Sudan, not a coherent party. Now it seems a venue for warlords.