The Ijaw National Congress (INC) and the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) has opposed any attempt to recommence fresh hostilities in the Niger-Delta region, saying the era of armed struggle was over and the armed fighters should quit the state for

More than 74,000 Africans, fleeing civil war, political instability, poverty, famine and drought in the Horn of Africa, crossed the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea on smugglers' boats and reached the shores of Yemen this year. This figure

KISMAYU (Sh. M. Network) - the Islamic administration of Harakat Al-shabab Mujahideen in the port town of Kismayu, 500 kilometers south of the Somalia capital Mogadishu have ordered the men to shave their moustaches and release the beard, witnesses and

MOGADISHU (Sh. M. Network) - Huge fire has devastated more fuel tanks and properties in the Somali capital Mogadishu after a business centers at KM5 was set to a fire in the south of the capital, witnesses and officials told

The United Nations mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, (MONUC) has announced that its joint operations with the Congolese military (FARDC) will end by December 31st and their efforts will now focus on the protection of civilians.