Tag: disorder
Sudanese agencies should plug Darfur aid gap
Sudanese aid agencies must be helped to fill in the huge gaps left in Darfur's aid operation by the expulsion of 13...
Tribesmen kill 139 in south Sudan raid: official
Armed Nuer tribesmen have killed at least 139 members of a rival tribe in an attack in a remote area of southern...
UK pledges aid for Sudan ahead of crucial elections
Britain announced a £54 million ($86.38 million) aid package for Sudan yesterday and said the African country faced a "crucial and critical...
Egyptian soldier shot dead in Gaza border clashes
An Egyptian soldier was shot dead during a violent protest at the Egypt-Gaza border yesterday, an Egyptian security source said.
The source said...
Jihadism in 2010: The threat continues, headed for SA, Stratfor says
For the past several years, STRATFOR...
Kabila fires 119 civil servants for corruption
Democratic Republic of Congo sacked 119 high-ranking civil servants as part of a presidential drive to clean up the often corrupt and...
South Sudan army-civilian clash kills 17: official
Seventeen people were killed last Thursday when armed civilians ambushed south Sudanese soldiers trying to disarm tribes following heavy fighting in the...
Gunman kills legislator in Somalia’s Puntland
An unidentified gunman killed a member of the local parliament in Puntland yesterday, witnesses said, the latest political murder to rock Somalia's...
WFP suspends operations in Somalia
The UN's World Food Programme (WFP) has suspended its work in much of southern Somalia due to threats against its staff and...
Top LRA commander killed
The Ugandan military says its forces in the Central African Republic have killed the acting guerrilla commander of the rebel Lord's Resistance...
FDLR threat reduced: DRC minister
Congolese Information Minister, Lambert Mende, has said that the military campaigns against the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) have...
Eritrean rebels claim killing 25 govt troops
Two Eritrean rebel groups said last Friday they have killed 25 government soldiers and wounded at least 38 others, in ambushes on...
Eritrean official denies border demarcation with Ethiopia
An Eritrean government official has described reports that an international body will soon demarcate the border between his country and Ethiopia as...
Military mentality haunts Nigeria governance: NEPAD
Nigeria's leaders still need to shed some of the attitudes and values built up under military rule if Africa's most populous nation...
More than 150 killed in Congo attacks this week: UN
More than 150 people were killed last week in fighting between government troops and armed groups in the Equateur province of Democratic...
Death toll in central Somalia fighting rises to 47
At least 47 people have been killed in central Somalia in fighting between Islamist rebels and a pro-government group for control of...
Ten killed in Niger attacks: security sources
Ten people including seven soldiers were killed during attacks by gunmen in Niger, security sources said last Saturday, adding to the week's...
Madagascar leader tears up power-sharing deals
Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina has formally rejected internationally brokered power-sharing deals and said any attempt by the opposition to form a parliament...
UN website details peacekeeper sex abuse claims
The United Nations unveiled a website aimed at improving transparency about sexual misconduct allegations and other charges leveled against members of its...
Danish cartoonist attacker suspected of al Qaeda ties
A Somali man armed with an axe and suspected of links with al Qaeda broke into the home of a Danish cartoonist...