Cult leaders in Rivers State, Ateke Tom and Soboma George, have offered to appear before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission sitting in Port Harcourt only if it would relocate to the creeks.

PAYMASTERS from the Army Headquarters arrived Akure, the Ondo State capital yesterday to commence payment of entitlements to last week's rampaging soldiers who returned recently from a peace keeping operation in Liberia.

A moral and civic education cycle within the Angolan Armed Forces (FAA) is taking place in the northern Cabinda province, with the aim of divulging the legislative elections in Angola, set for next September 05.

The counsel to Niger Delta militant, Henry Okah, Mr Femi Falana, yesterday in Jos said he would appeal against Okah's continued trial in camera.

A senior commander of South Sudan has said there is no problem between UPDF and the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA).

Traditional elders in Beled Weyne say they have succeeded in convincing Ethiopian forces not to enter the town. The elders have also asked Islamists to do the same.

The main event of the commemorations of the 32nd founding anniversary of the Angolan Navy (MGA), to be marked on Thursday, July 10, will happen at the Naval Base of Luanda.

Army chief Gen. Aronda Nyakairima has said soldiers misusing their gun to terrorise civilians must be seriously punished.

The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Chad and the Central African Republic (CAR) today began training some 200 gendarmes and police officers who will be tasked with protecting refugees and displaced people in the east of Chad.

A number of people were killed and injured and hundreds of families displaced, after a night of heavy fighting in the southwestern town of Baidoa, the seat of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG), witnesses told IRIN on 8 July.

The pacification of Ituri, a region in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) badly affected by conflict, has been a long and arduous process. Much has been achieved over recent years but, as analysts and officials involved point out, the

The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has suspended the release of Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, a Congolese rebel militia leader accused of recruiting child soldiers.

THE Federal Government has been called upon to avoid the mistakes of the past in its current efforts at resolving the crises in the Niger Delta region.

THE Benin National Congress (BNC), a Benin socio-cultural organization, yesterday, condemned the attack on the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) by some groups and leaders in the Niger Delta, over their comment on the plight of the people of the region.

Hundreds of protestors burned tires and blocked roads in the capital of Somalia's breakaway republic of Somaliland, Radio Garowe reported Monday.

Hundreds of protestors gathered in front of the main government building in the port city of Bossaso, in northern Somalia' s region of Puntland, Radio Garowe reported Monday.

Security forces loyal to different levels of government clashed in southern Somalia Monday, sparking a deadly battle that wounded at least six people.

Despite an all time increase in the world oil prices, Nigeria has lost 30% projected revenue for the 2008 budget because of the Niger Delta crisis, President Umaru Musa Yar'adua said at a conference in Abuja aimed at raising funds