Sunday, November 1, 2009The has warned the government that it does not do enough to protect its citizens' online privacy and personal data. Now the EU has moved to the next stage of legal action, which could see Britain taken

Sunday, November 1, 2009 presidential candidate said on Sunday that he will not participate in this week's runoff election against President , accusing the government of not meeting his demands for a fair vote.

Sunday, November 1, 2009A 23-year-old pedestrian walking along Racecourse Road in the city of , at around 0220 on Sunday night was struck by a black and has been killed. A 22-year-old man has now been arrested by the police

Sunday, November 1, 2009The celebrity chef has been charged with the offence of .

Sunday, November 1, 2009A soldier has been killed near the town of , in the of after a bomb explosion struck on Saturday afternoon. The death brings the current total of UK military personnel killed in Afghanistan up to 224

Sunday, November 1, 2009A girls' school in the village of Kari Gar, within the tribal , was blown up and destroyed by Islamist militants today morning. There were no reported deaths but four people passing by have been injured and

Saturday, October 31, 2009Twenty six people took an organised outing by rail this weekend to a little used station in , in an effort to highlight its poor rail service. The trip was organised by Alex Nelson, the of the

Tensions are rising in Sudan as the country prepares for elections in 2010 and a subsequent referendum over whether the people of South Sudan want to break away and become an independent state.

Somalia's insurgent group Al-Shabaab has banned the UN World Food Program from distributing humanitarian foodstuffs bearing US flag in southern Somalia.

After the decades-old conflict in the Niger delta region with resultant loses in scores of lives, properties and revenues in billions of naira, the federal government amnesty programme which expired on October 4, saw thousands of repentant militants renouncing their

Nine more fighters of the Lord's Resistance Army have surrendered to the Congolese army following a battle between the UPDF and the rebels in the Central African Republic (CAR) last week.

Passengers have on Monday thwarted attempt by armed gunmen to hijack a plane in Somalia's northern port city of Bossasso in Semi-autonomous region of Puntland, Garowe online has learnt.

At least 6 have died in a landmine explosion that rocked the strategic central Somali town of Beledweyne, the regional capital of Hiiraan, some 206 miles (332 km) north of the Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses said on Monday.

A roadside bomb has killed a senior Somaliland military commander and wounded two others in disputed northwestern Somali town of Las Anod in the breakaway region of Somaliland.

Hundreds of Somalis have demonstrated against the troops of the break away republic of Somaliland in Las Anod town in north of Somalia, officials told Shabelle radio on Monday.

A Sierra Leonean judge has taken over as the new President of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL), the United Nations-backed war crimes tribunal set up to deal with the worst acts committed during the long and brutal civil

On 31 October 2009, the UNAMID Rule of Law Prisons Advisory Unit in Collaboration with the GoS Prisons Service organized a visit to the prison institutions in Kabkabbya and Kutum. The purpose of the visit was to conduct technical assessment

With this month's (October) transition from non- extendable five (5) years' term of Transitional Federal Government (TFG) to two (2) years' term of Transitional Federal Unity Government (TFUG), Somalia lost the right for self-Government and fell under the authority of

The much touted fast-tracking of the trials of Kenya's post-election violence perpetrators might not happen after all, though senior government officials say the International Criminal Court has enough evidence to start the proceedings any time.

IN the past couple of weeks the success story of the Presidential amnesty deal with the militants of the Niger Delta region has dominated the news media, both locally and internationally.