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Wednesday, September 18, 2013 - 10:10
UN leader Ban Ki-moon wants Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir to answer war crimes charges, a spokesman said Tuesday as controversy mounted over Bashir's bid to attend a UN summit next week.
Wednesday, September 18, 2013 - 10:12
The police in Zanzibar said Tuesday that they had arrested 15 people in connection with a spate of acid attacks in recent months.
Wednesday, September 18, 2013 - 10:14
Nigerian politicians have exchanged punches after a splinter group from the governing People's Democratic Party (PDP) tried to address parliament.
Wednesday, September 18, 2013 - 10:18
Rwanda's governing RPF party has won a resounding victory in parliamentary elections, securing 76% of the vote.
Wednesday, September 18, 2013 - 10:20
Army authorities disclosed, yesterday, that 15 soldiers and a lieutenant have been killed by Boko Haram terrorists along the Baga-Maiduguri Road in Borno State, while 150 sect members were killed by troops of the 7th Division during a fierce battle with the insurgents last weekend.
Wednesday, September 18, 2013 - 10:22
Residents of Jowhar town confirmed to Shabelle radio station in Mogadishu that a grenade was thrown at a government military base located at the outskirts of Jowhar the headquarter town of the middle Shabelle region.
Wednesday, September 18, 2013 - 10:24
Somali government forces allied with AMISOM troops fought with Alshabab fighters at a place between Yaqbari wayne and walweyn districts in the lower Shabelle region of Somalia.
Wednesday, September 18, 2013 - 10:26
The Saudi government announced yesterday that it would donate $300,000 to a trust fund that aims to abolish maritime piracy off the coast of Somalia and to support the prosecutorial legal process.
Wednesday, September 18, 2013 - 10:36
Recently, a lot of attention has been paid to the LRA’s involvement in ivory trade. This was sparked off by the Enough report ‘Kony’s ivory’ released in June, which described the LRA’s ivory activities in Garamba Park, North-Eastern DRC. The report was followed by a range of articles highlighting how ‘tusks fund terror’; and further elaborated in other reports. All of these highlight how the LRA “gains vital resources through its participation in the illegal ivory trade” – as the Enough report summarized (p.11).
Wednesday, September 18, 2013 - 10:38
The Nigeria Security Tracker (NST) has been updated with the data from August 2013. While my analysis of the data is, at the moment, preliminary, there appears to be a renewed upsurge in violence since the declaration of the state of emergency on May 14, 2013; contrary to official spokespersons.