Tag: civil war

“Sudan’s moment has come; chaos is our chance to sow the seeds of jihad,” warned Abu Hudhaifa al-Sudani, a high-ranking al-Qaida leader, in an...

The current civil war in Sudan goes beyond a simple power struggle between two generals. It reflects a deep-rooted crisis within the country’s governing...

South Sudan is expected to hold its first general election in December 2024. It became an independent state in 2011. The long overdue election is...

The African Union has recently named a team to work on a peaceful end to Sudan’s civil war. The team will engage Sudan’s feuding...

With the world’s attention focused on wars in Israel, Gaza and Ukraine, the devastating civil war that erupted in Sudan in April 2023 has...

Like most contemporary wars, Sudan’s war cannot be reduced to a contest between two sides. It is many other things, among them a gun...

Most terrorist campaigns – where a group targets civilians to achieve political objectives – are short-lived. But some aren’t. In some cases, terror campaigns...

Sudan's armed forces chief defended the military's seizure of power, saying he had ousted the government to avoid civil war, while protesters took to...

Sudan's prime minister warned on Tuesday of the risk of chaos and civil war fomented by loyalists of the previous regime as he sought...

Half of all Liberians think their West African nation could plunge back into conflict more than a decade after civil war ended,...

Mozambique's Renamo opposition movement said on Monday it was abandoning its 1992 peace accord with the ruling Frelimo party that ended the...

Libya risks sliding into civil war unless it brings under control the rival militias which filled the vacuum left by Muammar Gaddafi's...

Liberia's main opposition candidate said he might seek the annulment of a presidential run-off boycotted by his supporters, raising the prospect of...

Jobs, normality and democracy are high on the wish lists of Libyans questioned on the streets of their capital, but after months...

Sudan has been producing on average 117,900 barrels a day of oil since its former civil war foe South Sudan became independent...

A former Algerian defence minister has been arrested and questioned in Switzerland on suspicion of committing war crimes during Algeria's civil war,...

The United Nations top human rights official called for international action to protect Syria's civilians, saying its "ruthless repression" of anti-government protesters...

Liberians wrapped up a peaceful presidential election -- the West African state's second since a civil war -- though worries remained that...

The line between protesters and mutinying soldiers backing them is becoming increasingly blurred in Yemen's eight-month revolt against President Ali Abdullah Saleh's...

Ivory Coast will hold a parliamentary election on Dec. 11, a government spokesman said the first poll since a civil war ended...

South Sudan's annual inflation rate surged to 57.1 percent in August, propelled by a surge in the cost of food, the new...

Gunmen have stormed a bar in Burundi killing at least 36 people, the deadliest attack in the Central African country this year...

A Burundian rights body said it had documented 125 extra-judicial killings between May and August that mostly targeted former Hutu rebels in...

Ivory Coast will change the official name of its armed forces in the coming days, the government said in what was seen...

Rebels to the west and east of Libya's capital fought forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi for control of oil facilities vital to...

Civil war shut off Libyan oil supplies to Austrian energy group OMV and Italian refiner Saras in the second quarter, driving down...

In a packed classroom on a cool evening near the front line in Libya's civil war, 15-year-old Mira is teaching children to...

In this article I offer a backgrounder on the uprisings, revolutions, and democratic developments ongoing throughout the Arab world. I undertake a critical analysis...

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he lacks the authority to personally order a probe into the mass killings of civilians in the...

More than a decade after its civil war, Liberia is heading towards reconciliation but significant challenges remain in the development of its...

Sudan and Chad agreed yesterday to end their proxy wars and work together to rebuild their border areas, a move seen aimed...

A verdict in the long war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor is not now expected until the end of...

Angola's president appointed the country's first vice-president and new ministers for finance, mining and public works in a major cabinet reshuffle following...

Chad has told the United Nations peacekeeping mission to withdraw its soldiers and civilians, and wants a timetable for ending a deployment...

Sierra Leone needs donors' help to create jobs for disarmed but unemployed youth if the West African nation is to maintain the...

Thousands of Ivorian opposition supporters marched peacefully through Abidjan yesterday to protest against what they said was President Laurent Gbagbo's stranglehold on...

Liberia's President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf said she will stand for re-election in 2011, ending speculation over her future despite a proposed ban on...

A man threw his shoe at Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir in a public conference in the capital yesterday, a particularly insulting...

Darfur rebels said Sudan's army had attacked their troops in a populated area of the western state of North Darfur last week,...

Sudan's constitutional court ruled yesterday that the south's semi-autonomous government cannot prohibit the activities of a Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) splinter...

Former Congolese warlord Laurent Nkunda is ready to face trial for alleged war crimes or go into exile to end his detention...

Sudan needs more cash and support from donor countries if its national elections and a southern referendum on independence are to take...

Major donor Britain is pressing Sudan's former north-south foes urgently to resolve differences over borders and sharing oil revenues, with a southern...

Ivorian Prime Minister Guillaume Soro has annulled hundreds of thousands of disputed names on the electoral register, after complaints from President Laurent...

Ivory Coast's electoral commission said yesterday it had settled all legal disputes over its provisional voter list, paving the way for a...

South Sudan's vote on independence next year will lead to a new war unless key questions of the north-south border, nationality and...

Top US and French diplomats have met members of Guinea's ruling junta in Morocco in hopes of speeding a return to democracy...

The UN Security Council has lifted its arms embargo on Liberia for one year, primarily to allow its peacekeeping mission there to...

An official of Burundi's main anti-graft watchdog group claims that funds allocated to President Pierre Nkurunziza's office have been misused and urged...

More than 150 people were killed last week in fighting between government troops and armed groups in the Equateur province of Democratic...