Tensions are rising in Sudan as the country prepares for elections in 2010 and a subsequent referendum over whether the people of South Sudan want to break away and become an independent state.

Somalia's insurgent group Al-Shabaab has banned the UN World Food Program from distributing humanitarian foodstuffs bearing US flag in southern Somalia.

After the decades-old conflict in the Niger delta region with resultant loses in scores of lives, properties and revenues in billions of naira, the federal government amnesty programme which expired on October 4, saw thousands of repentant militants renouncing their

Nine more fighters of the Lord's Resistance Army have surrendered to the Congolese army following a battle between the UPDF and the rebels in the Central African Republic (CAR) last week.

Passengers have on Monday thwarted attempt by armed gunmen to hijack a plane in Somalia's northern port city of Bossasso in Semi-autonomous region of Puntland, Garowe online has learnt.

At least 6 have died in a landmine explosion that rocked the strategic central Somali town of Beledweyne, the regional capital of Hiiraan, some 206 miles (332 km) north of the Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses said on Monday.

A roadside bomb has killed a senior Somaliland military commander and wounded two others in disputed northwestern Somali town of Las Anod in the breakaway region of Somaliland.

Hundreds of Somalis have demonstrated against the troops of the break away republic of Somaliland in Las Anod town in north of Somalia, officials told Shabelle radio on Monday.

A Sierra Leonean judge has taken over as the new President of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL), the United Nations-backed war crimes tribunal set up to deal with the worst acts committed during the long and brutal civil

On 31 October 2009, the UNAMID Rule of Law Prisons Advisory Unit in Collaboration with the GoS Prisons Service organized a visit to the prison institutions in Kabkabbya and Kutum. The purpose of the visit was to conduct technical assessment

With this month's (October) transition from non- extendable five (5) years' term of Transitional Federal Government (TFG) to two (2) years' term of Transitional Federal Unity Government (TFUG), Somalia lost the right for self-Government and fell under the authority of

The much touted fast-tracking of the trials of Kenya's post-election violence perpetrators might not happen after all, though senior government officials say the International Criminal Court has enough evidence to start the proceedings any time.

IN the past couple of weeks the success story of the Presidential amnesty deal with the militants of the Niger Delta region has dominated the news media, both locally and internationally.

Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN)'s Public Affairs General Manager, Mrs Efuru Igbo, has said that the recently concluded amnesty programme of the Federal Government has started aiding power generation in the country.

AN association which brings together wives of soldiers attached to the Presidential Guard Brigade (PGB) on Friday held an art and craft exhibition at State House, Entebbe.

A senior militia commander of Hizbul Islam rebels was gunned down in southern Somalia Wednesday, Radio Garowe reports.

A MEMBER of the Delta Waterways and Security Committee (DWSC) in Delta State, Reverend Duke Akpososo, has asked the Federal Government to direct Nigerian military engineers to overhaul the weapons surrendered by ex-militants and use them to beef up the

THE exercise of the surrender of weapons by the Niger Delta freedom fighters or militants, depending on the side of the divide to which one belongs, as part of the amnesty granted to them by President Umaru Yar'Adua has come

The past 10 months saw the highest number of Africans reaching Yemeni shores over figures for the same period in 2008 and 2007, when large numbers began travelling to Yemen by boat, according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).

The Pan-African Parliament (PAP) this morning adopted a motion moved by the Hon. Member from Swaziland Marwick Khumalo against the massacre witnessed in Guinea on September 28 where at least 150 protesters calling on Guinea's military ruler Captain Moussa Dadis