FOR the last two decades of unforgettable conflict in northern, eastern and West Nile sub-region, the people have suffered terribly at the hands of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). This suffering has not only been physical but also socio-economic.

Since the idea of the Niger Delta summit was mooted, the proposal has kicked up a lot of dust, with some people saying that it is an unnecessary talk shop.

A Nigerian soldier working as United Nation-African Union Peacekeeper was shot and killed in Sudan's western Darfur region, a UN spokeswoman said yesterday.

AT THE last minute, President Thabo Mbeki yesterday cancelled a critical visit to Zimbabwe to witness the signing of an inter-party agreement to pave the way for substantive talks on power-sharing after the opposition backed out of endorsing the draft.

The Sudanese government yesterday warned that the indictment of President Omar al-Bashir on genocide and war crimes charges would have "a direct negative impact" on the peace talks between Uganda and the LRA rebels.

The United Nations World Food Programme warned today that greater numbers of people fleeing fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo were stretching the agency's resources to the limit as thousands gather in camps in search of safety.

The Angolan government reiterated its commitment to fighting the proliferation of guns in society, thus having adopted practical and pragmatic measures aimed for the materialisation of the United Nations Action plan on this matter.

The outgoing Force Commander of the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL), Lt. Gen. Chikadibia Isaac Obiakor has warned Liberians against violence as a way of finding solution to problems that confront them.

Britain is to help Nigeria crack down on violence which has disrupted oil supplies in the troubled Niger Delta through a security training force, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said yesterday.

A startling revelation emerged yesterday about the Green Tree Agreement (GTA), the treaty ceding the oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon, as military authorities spoke about the security implications of the agreement.

The indictment of Sudanese President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on genocide charges should send a strong message to other world leaders that the abuse of human rights on such an outrageous scale can no longer

THOUSANDS of displaced xenophobic violence victims accommodated at safety shelters - who do not want to be repatriated or reintegrated to communities - could be left without shelter and food when the Gauteng provincial government closes its centres next month.

The recent offers by France and Britain to help the Federal Government to contain the activities of the militants in the Niger Delta have the potential of further militarizing the oil and gas-rich region of the country and this cannot,

WOMEN of Obodogugu-Ogume community in Ndokwa area of Delta State protested naked, yesterday, while no fewer than eight persons, including a policeman have been shot by armed youths in a renewed orgy of violence between the community and the people

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates on July 15 said diplomacy and development should lead American efforts abroad, and he warned against a "creeping militarization" of U.S. foreign policy.

The former personal body-guard of the late Rwandan Prime Minister, Agathe Uwingiliyimana, claimed before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) Wednesday that members of the presidential guards forcefully disarmed their special unit at the premier's residence on April 7,

Mr. Wallace, Mr. Altit, what is the relevance of this site for the case?" This question was asked more than a dozen times by Judge Erik Mose during the visit of the Chamber Tuesday to Nyanza, southern Rwanda, to the

In considering the wars in the Central African Republic (CAR), Darfur, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where the use of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) is widespread, this paper seeks to accomplish two tasks. The first task is

The UN refugee agency has a US$11.9 million shortfall in funding for its Southern Sudan repatriation and reintegration operation which could undermine efforts to repatriate refugees who wish to go home in the second half of this year.