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Monday, February 8, 2016 - 06:49
In April 2015, the commander of Russia's military base in Tajikistan said its size would swell to 9,000 troops by 2020.
Monday, February 8, 2016 - 06:46
When former U.S. president Bill Clinton visited Africa in 1998, he praised "a new generation of leaders" as champions of a dawning "African Renaissance". Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni was one of them: Two years before, he had been elected president after a decade as a military ruler. Museveni is again running for president — at the age of 71, after abolishing constitutional limits on presidential terms. He refers to the East African country’s oil reserves as his own, holds a public holiday to mark when he seized power in a coup 30 years ago, and is expected to easily win a fifth term in the February 18 elections.
Monday, February 8, 2016 - 06:43
U.N. officials are demanding the Chadian government explain why a Central African rebel leader was able to travel freely to Chad in defiance of Security Council sanctions against him. Nourredine Adam, the second-in-command of the ex-Seleka band of mostly Muslim rebels, was able to fly to Chad despite an assets freeze and a travel ban imposed by the UN in May 2014, the world body's sanctions committee said in a report obtained Friday by AFP.
Monday, February 8, 2016 - 06:39
After falling to al-Shabab militants on Friday, the port city of Marka was recaptured by Somali government troops and African Union (AU) peacekeepers on Saturday, according to Somali officials.
"The Somali forces and AMISOM peacekeepers secured control of Marka again and now the situation has returned to normal," Abdirisak Mohamed, a Somali military official, told the AFP news agency by telephone.
Monday, February 8, 2016 - 06:36
A common position by African countries on mass withdrawal from the International Criminal Court will not be reached until June when a committee tasked to engage the UN Security Council reports back. Contrary to reports that 34 African countries resolved during the 26th African Union Summit in Addis Ababa in January to withdraw from the Rome Statute that established The Hague-based court, a report of the meeting indicates that the leaders only mandated the Open-Ended Committee of Foreign Affairs Ministers to discuss the intention with the UNSC.
Monday, February 8, 2016 - 06:34
The United Nations is trying a new approach to the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (or DDR) of armed groups. The new approach, described as pre-DDR, is being launched in the Central African Republic's northern town of Kaga Bandoro, where former combatants of the mainly Muslim Seleka armed group and the Christian and animist anti-Balaka movement are being paid to do community work.
Monday, February 8, 2016 - 06:33
U.S.-backed Kurdish and Arab forces have seized significant amounts of territory from the extremist group in the parts of Iraq and Syria where it declared a caliphate in 2014.
Monday, February 8, 2016 - 06:30
Sudan’s foreign minister Ibrahim Ghandour Sunday has asked the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) to put pressure on the rebel groups in order to join the peace process. International and regional mediators have been brokering different process to end Darfur conflict since 2003 and the conflict in South Kordofan and Blue Nile states since 2011
Monday, February 8, 2016 - 06:29
U.S. intelligence and defense officials are increasingly worried their fight against the self-declared Islamic State is benefitting al Qaeda, ISIS’s jihadi rival.
Monday, February 8, 2016 - 06:13
The United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) said on Sunday it was ready to supply ground troops to help support and train an international military coalition against Islamic State in Syria provided such efforts were led by the United States.