Fighters loyal to Somali insurgent group al Shabaab entered and gained control of two southern towns without facing resistance from government sources, Radio Garowe reported.
The Army may be popping champagne at the killing of Wycliffe Kirui Komon Matwakei last Friday. But if the security personnel were well informed, they would first hold their horses because the Mt Elgon offensive is far from over.
United Nations agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) today started distributing food and clean water to tens of thousands of people who fled fighting in the disputed Sudanese town of Abyei last week.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) António Guterres today praised Yemen for providing protection to people making the dangerous Gulf of Aden crossing from Somalia, and called for more international support so the country can assist the refugees.
Th e interim president of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) is secretly backing a measure to extend the four-year term for Gen. Adde Muse, leader of the Puntland region in the northeast of the country, inside sources tell Garowe Online.
The increase in needs is due mainly to the addition of 600 000 urban poor, who are struggling to meet their household food needs in the face of rapidly increasing food and basic commodity prices, according to a recent assessment
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) in Bayelsa State has threatened to destroy oil pipelines in the state and called on construction giant, Daewoo Nigeria limited and other companies operating in the state to leave in
Former President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah Friday made astonishing revelations explaining the extent to which him and the indicted rebel leader Issa Hassan Sesay collaborated to bring lasting peace; ending the decade-long civil war in 2001.
Dr. Hakeem Wemah president of the Northern Development Forum (NDF) has warned the feuding factions in Bawku to refrain from further killing and burning of houses and start finding lasting solutions to their disagreements.
They may beat us, burn our homes, break our bones, kill us even, but they cannot make us love them," diplomats who visited Mashonaland Central last week heard."We will not vote for a regime which brings misery upon us and
Kenyan security officers have recovered more guns and witnessed "several" militiamen surrendering after the killing of a militia leader in the western Mt Elgon district, a police official told IRIN on 19 May.
Hundreds of Somali Bantu families have been displaced in the southern region of Lower Juba after days of inter-clan fighting in which 10 people were reportedly killed and more than 20 wounded, locals told IRIN.
About 30 Somali shopkeepers trading and living in Du Noon have received warning letters telling them to leave the area, fuelling fears that xenophobic attacks occurring in Johannesburg could spread to Cape Town.
Thousands of civilians who were displaced from Abyei town by clashes last week between the Sudanese army and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) are living rough in nearby forests.
The southern African contribution to the African Standby Force (ASF) to fulfil the African Union's (AU) peacekeeping ambitions will depend heavily on South Africa, but with its army already overstretched, underfunded and struggling to meet existing commitments, regional military experts
THE FAILURE TO SIGN A peace agreement between the government of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) should have been expected, even after almost two years of protracted negotiations.
