Posts having tag: conflicts
Charity plea over kidnapped pair! Hundreds of thousands of people need aid in Darfur The head of an Irish charity whose aid workers were kidnapped in Darfur has appealed for their safe ...
Somali civilians killed by shells! Thousands have fled the battles as civilians are caught in the crossfire Twelve civilians have died in the Somali capital as government soldiers retaliated to ...
Kenya sets new tribunal deadline! Rioting started after claims of fraud in the December 2007 election Kenya and the International Criminal Court have agreed on a new deadline to set up a special ...
Summit takes AU back to its roots! Leaders from some 50 African countries are attending the AU summit By Christian Fraser ...
DR Congo troops accused of rapes! The UN backs the Congolese army offensive Government troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo carry out most of the rapes of civilians caught up in the war ...
'Why I took up arms against Ethiopia'! The ONLF says these rocks conceal mass graves By Yannick Demoustier and Jonathan Alpeyrie ...
African troops - 'fig-leaf' for Somalia? By Mark Doyle BBC World Affairs correspondent ...
Two shot at Ethiopia church site! Ethiopian police have shot and killed two people who were helping to build a Christian church at a site which is also claimed by Muslims, officials say. Violence broke out when police ...
Niger court dissolution 'is coup'! Mamadou Tandja says the people of Niger want him to stay in power An opposition leader in Niger has accused the president of carrying out a "coup ...
Militants attack Nigeria oil base! Militant attacks have sharply cut Nigeria's oil output The main militant group in Nigeria's Niger Delta says it has attacked an oil facility, the second attack ...
US envoy to meet Darfur's rebels! More than two million people have fled their homes in Darfur The US envoy for Sudan, Scott Gration, is due to meet Darfur rebel leaders in neighbouring Chad in a ...
MDC snubs Mugabe cabinet meeting! The former rivals formed a unity government in February Ministers from Zimbabwe's ex-opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) have boycotted a cabinet ...
Police deny Kenya torture claims ! ...
Somali 'killer' stoned to death ! The radical Islamist ...
Sudanese 'suspect' back in Canada ! Abousfian Abdelrazik says ...
Somali pirates free Belgian ship ...
Egypt reopens crossing into Gaza! Students and medical patients were among those allowed through Egypt has opened its Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip for three days, allowing some Palestinians to leave the blockaded territory. On the Egyptian side, 700 people and 10 trucks ...
Cathy Buckle's Weekly Letter from Zimbabwe ! GOLD AND DIAMONDS ! Dear Family and Friends, A few months ago a friend was approached by a vendor who had a large walnut -sized transparent stone. The vendor didn't want to say where he'd got the stone from but claimed it was a diamond and he was trying to sell it. The stone had a sharp edge ...
Hoping for change in Guinea-Bissau ! ...
Nigeria 'to release key militant'! Henry Okah was extradicted to Nigeria from Angola last year Nigeria's government is offering clemency to oil rebel leader Henry Okah as part of its 60-day ...
