The UPDF yesterday offered curious public praise for the police crackdown on city criminals, moments after retracting a press statement in which the army announced it was itching to join the hunt for the urban rogues.
Tullow Oil of UK has discovered more petroleum deposits in the exploration Block 2 of Lake Albert basin in Western Uganda, confirming the widespread of the oil resource in the area.
Improved political dialogue in the Central African Republic (CAR), a peace conference in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), as well as the deployment of a United Nations peacekeeping mission in Chad and CAR are all signs of progress
A ceremony was held in Kinshasa on Wednesday 14 May 2008 for Uruguayan blue helmets who received the UN medal, for distinguished services to MONUC. The Uruguayans received their medals from Ross Mountain, Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced today that an ongoing humanitarian airlift for Sudan, which has been threatened with closure for lack of funds, has been given a temporary reprieve by new donations.
Some 1,654 fire-arms of various types were handed over voluntarily, by citizens owning them illegally, to the National Police in the northern Uige Province, from April up to the present date, said Thursday the province's deputy governor for organisation and
Women in Ndele, a remote town in northern Central African Republic, are making a stand for their rights. The local chapter of the national women's organisation, OFCA, has launched a campaign to alert women to their rights on issues such
The failure of Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony to meet a team of elders has created a stalemate that raises fresh questions over the viability of talks between his group and the Ugandan government, a regional analyst said.
The Comoros government has welcomed France's rejection of a request for political asylum by Anjouan's toppled rebel leader, Mohammed Bacar, but its refusal to extradite the ousted Colonel has sparked outrage in the impoverished Indian Ocean archipelago.
Libyan Government has again deported Nigerians residing in the North African country for crimes ranging from incomplete immigration documents to other illicit activities.
The Higher Technical Military Institute (ISTM), belonging to the Angolan Armed Forces (FAA), situated in Luanda's Grafanil Military Camp, will be inaugurated on Thursday.
In the space of a few weeks, Mauritania suffered a number of terrorist attacks, responsibility for which was claimed by Al-Qaeda in the Maghreb. Radical Islamism is not new in Mauritania, but terrorism and the sheer scale of violence witnessed
Tunisia's Defence Minister, Mr Kamel Morjane who is currently leading the Tunisian delegation at the joint Tunisian-American military commission in Washington, met on Monday with the US Defence Secretary, Mr Robert Gates at the Pentagon.
THE meeting scheduled between LRA leader Joseph Kony and northern leaders once again flopped after he failed to appear. MPs, religious, traditional and local leaders had been waiting for Kony in Nabanga since May 10.
