President Mwai Kibaki on Monday launched a multimillion-dollar fund for resettlement of displaced persons, to be chaired by the retired Catholic Archbishop of Nairobi, Raphael Ndingi Mwana a' Nzeki.
The Kenyan government has raised Ksh1.46 billion (US$22.4 million) of the Ksh30 billion ($462 million) it says it needs to resettle at least 350,000 people displaced during the post-election crisis.
Kwanza-Norte Province's deputy governor, Abreu Pereira da Silva, on Monday here exhorted chieftains, religious leaders and other entities to actively co-participate in the government's programme of disarming citizens in illegal possession of weapons.
On a sad note floods from the overflowing Cuvelai system displaced thousands, inundating many homes in northern Namibia, but on the other hand they are a rich source of much-sought-after catfish.
Amnesty International today condemned the recent threats against humanitarian workers in Somalia made by Muqtar Robow Abu Mansur, a leader and spokesperson of Al-Shabab.
The UN Envoy in Liberia, Ms. Ellen Margrethe Løj, has commended the departing Seventh Senegalese Battalion in the UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL), after five years of successful peacekeeping duties in Liberia. The Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) was
Mass arrests in Khartoum of perceived supporters of a Darfur rebel group and other political opponents raise fears of mistreatment, Human Rights Watch said today.
On 9 May 2008, on their departure from MONUC, the Tunisian military contingent, as well as their military observers and staff officers, were decorated in Kinshasa with United Nations medals for good and faithful services rendered to MONUC.
Members of Parliament yesterday demanded that the government discloses the Production Sharing Agreements signed with the various companies exploring for petroleum in western Uganda.
The failure by a group of visiting American editors to travel to war-ravaged northern Uganda, has riled leaders in the region who accuse the senior foreign journalists of ignoring the ruinous effects of the two-decade long Lord 's Resistance Army
Societies that have suffered conflicts and are undergoing post-war trauma will soon be relieved of the burden of rebuilding mutual trust, confidence and to promote reconciliation, human rights and the role of law.
Talks between the Somali Government and an opposition group began today, and the top United Nations envoy to the war-torn Horn of Africa nation said that he was pleased that leaders have made the well-being and safety of their people
The United Nations Special Envoy to Somalia Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah has expressed his optimism and hope at the willingness of the Somali leaders to put their country and the safety of the Somali people as a top priority.
A key official in the government of Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland announced Monday that he has quit mediation efforts to help resolve an election dispute between the Somaliland president and opposition party leaders.
THE decision by Joseph Kony, the Lord's Resistance Army's (LRA) rebel leader, to postpone the signing of the Final Peace Agreement and officially end the war in the North is disheartening for war-affected communities who long for peace.
