Howard Wolpe has spent the best part of three decades helping to form and implement American policies on Africa. After chairing the Subcommittee on Africa of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives for 10 years, he

The former head of the government office that controlled the Rwandan tea industry was today sentenced to eight years in prison after being found guilty by a United Nations tribunal over his role in the African country's 1994 genocide.

Some elements in the UN Mission in the DRC (MONUC) are allegedly conniving and facilitating the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) rebels, The New Times has reliably learnt.

Former Liberia President Charles Taylor who is being tried by the UN-back court for Sierra Leone in The Hague for crimes he allegedly committed in the neighbouring country, has confessed to sending fighters to help rebels inflict mayhem on civilians

The top United Nations envoy to Sudan has praised the disarming, demobilization and reintegration so far this year of over 15,000 former combatants from the African nation's north-south civil war.

The head of United Nations peacekeeping has called for a joint investigation into the targeted killing this year of dozens of civilians in the far east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) by elements of the country's military.

Below is one in a series of postings and updates by U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan Scott Gration on happenings in U.S.-Sudan Policy.

The UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Alain Le Roy, yesterday, praised the Rwandan Government for what he called 'remarkable' participation in peacekeeping operations worldwide.

Nigeria's plan to give Niger Delta residents a slice of its national energy company could be a major deterrent to militancy in the oil-producing region, the governor of Rivers state said.

All Ugandan peacekeepers injured in the September 17 attack on African Union Mission in Somalia, have been discharged from Nairobi International Hospital.

Police officers serving with the United Nations peacekeeping force in Liberia have helped foil an attempted mass jail break this weekend from a prison in the West African nation's capital, Monrovia.

The joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping mission in Darfur has participated in a reconciliation ceremony in the north of the region that is aimed at halting a spate of recent inter-tribal clashes that have killed at least two dozen people.

Congolese armed forces in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have brutally killed hundreds of civilians and committed widespread rape in the past three months in a military operation backed by the United Nations, Human Rights Watch said today.

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

Government agencies and private players in the Nigerian upstream oil industry have floated a committee for rehabilitating and training militants who recently accepted the government's amnesty.

Although a UN group, headed by former Kenyan Attorney General Amos Wako, concluded that infamous Cater Camp Massacre in Fireston was the work of soldiers of the Armed Forced of Liberia, the TRC has disputed the findings, saying rebels to

As the Federal Government begins to implement its post-amnesty programme, the Imo House of Assembly has protested the N6 billion provided the state for the development projects in the state.

United States and Sierra Leone government officials signed an agreement to reestablish a Peace Corps program in Sierra Leone after a 16 year absence. Glenn Fedzer, the Chargé d'Affaires for the U.S. Embassy in Freetown, and Sierra Leone's Minister of

Some elements in the UN Mission in the DRC (MONUC) are allegedly conniving and facilitating the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) rebels, The New Times has reliably learnt.