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Conflict & emergencies
RSS FeedDRC: UN under fire
2008-05-08
Although the United Nations spends over $1 billion per year to maintain a presence in the Congo, that presence has been plagued with numerous missteps and wrongdoings. UN troops have been involved in the raping and prostitution of Congolese women and...
Africa: Call for inquiry into US role in Somalia
2008-05-08
Amnesty International has called for the role of the United States in Somalia to be investigated, following publication of a report accusing its allies of committing war crimes. The human rights group listed abuses carried out by Ethiopian and Somali...
Somalia: More than a dozen killed in clashes
2008-05-08
Clashes between Ethiopian troops and Islamist insurgents have killed more than a dozen people in southern and central regions of Somalia, residents said. Islamist fighters, opposed to Ethiopian soldiers in Somalia to support its interim government, a...
Burundi: Army says killed 50 rebels in clashes
2008-05-09
Burundi's army said on Thursday it had killed 50 fighters from the country's last active rebel group in renewed clashes outside the capital Bujumbura. The attack came barely a day after leaders of the Forces for National Liberation (FNL), an ethnic H...
Ghana: Deadly ethnic clashes in the north
2008-05-09
Ethnic groups in northern Ghana clashed on 5 May in the town of Bawku, northern Ghana, leaving at least five people dead. Police have arrested some 72 people and imposed an “indefinite” 22 hour curfew....
Somalia: More than 2.6 million people are in crisis
2008-05-01
The Food Security Analysis Unit for Somalia deteriorating at an accelerated pace due to sky rocketing food prices, a deepening drought due to an abnormally harsh dry season and a delayed and poor start to the seasonal rains (mid-April to June). As re...
Western Sahara: UN mission extended
2008-05-01
The Security Council has extended until 30 April 2009 the mandate of the United Nations mission in Western Sahara (MINURSO), tasked with monitoring the ceasefire between Morocco and the Frente Polisario and organizing a referendum on self-determinati...
Chad: Aid worker's death shows limits of EU force
2008-05-02
The European Union military force in Chad does not have enough troops to escort humanitarian convoys in the conflict-torn eastern region where a French aid worker was killed by gunmen, a force spokesman said on Friday....
Burundi: Fighting rages
2008-05-02
The Burundian military has announced the deaths of at least 11 fighters from the National Liberation Forces (FNL) in fresh fighting near the capital Bujumbura. The clashes on Monday between the government and the FNL comes after the United Nations wa...
Sudan: Dozens killed in clashes
2008-04-25
About 95 people have been killed in tribal clashes in south Sudan, which have also targeted equipment and facilities used in an historic nationwide census, local press reports said on Friday. Clashes broke out on Tuesday in the southern Lakes State b...
DRC: Hundreds flee new violence in strife-torn region
2008-04-25
Renewed fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) North Kivu province has forced the United Nations refugee agency to halt the distribution of aid to internally displaced persons and to call off a drive to register newly displaced peop...
Somalia: Deadly mosque raid deplored
2008-04-25
A human rights group has accused Ethiopian troops of deliberately "targeting civilians" during a deadly raid on a mosque in the Somali capital Mogadishu that left 21 people dead. But Wahide Belay, a spokesman for the Ethiopian foreign affairs ministr...
Haiti: World Food Program launches emergency call
2008-04-25
The World Food Program lacks crucially needed funds to help feed Haiti's poor, and international donors must provide urgent and massive aid, a spokesman for the United Nations agency said on Thursday. "The situation is particularly serious because 56...
Somalia: UN humanitarian chief calls for protection of civilians
2008-04-25
John Holmes, the UN's top humanitarian official, has called on all parties in the Somali conflict to protect civilians amid an increasing trend of indiscriminate and disproportionate use of force against the general population in contravention of int...
Burundi: Fourteen killed as rebels, army clash
2008-04-18
Rebels from Burundi's last active guerrilla group fired mortar bombs at government positions in clashes that killed 10 rebels and four soldiers, an army spokesman said on Friday. The fighting, which started late Thursday and continued into Friday mor...
Sudan: The humanitarian situation in Darfur - Dakar Declaration
2008-04-18
Welcoming the convening of the 11th ordinary session of the Islamic Summit Conference in Dakar, and that this historical occasion represents an opportune moment for the leaders of the Muslim World to take stock of the progress of work on issues and p...
Sudan: Diaspora leaders urge Darfur focus at upcoming Security Council special session
2008-04-18
The Darfuri Leaders Network, a broad-based alliance representing Darfuri diaspora organizations across the U.S., today urged members of the U.N. Security Council to address the ongoing violence and humanitarian crisis in Darfur during an upcoming spe...
DRC: Cautious calm settles over war-scarred Ituri region
2008-04-18
Wading through the chest-high grass outside of this hamlet in north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Mathieu Nyakufa gestures to the bones -- still bleaching in the sun -- of those who have been lost to the country's wars. "I was living just dow...
Africa: Contested politics in Africa: the state, identity and resources - New study
2008-04-18
This brief examines the state, identity politics, and the struggle for resources in Africa. It contends that identity politics obscures the real reason behind exclusionary practices, namely the struggle for and access to resources. It uses the recent conflicts in Côte d’Ivoire, Sudan and Chad to illustrate how initial identity tensions laid the foundation for a struggle for access to resources that has re-ignited violence in those...
Ethiopia: Unrest simmers in Ogaden
2008-04-18
Ethnic Somali separatists have been fighting government forces in the east of Ethiopia for more than 13 years now, but the long-running conflict has been largely invisible as Addis Ababa has restricted access to the region. There have been numerous c...
Nigeria: Shell pipeline 'sabotaged'
2008-04-18
An armed group in Nigeria's southern oil-producing region claims to have sabotaged a major oil supply pipeline belonging to Anglo-Dutch oil group Shell. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) said that it had carried out the sabo...
Uganda: Optimism prevails, despite setback in peace talks
2008-04-18
Josephine Akello had hoped the peace talks between the Ugandan government and the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) would finally end with rebel leader Joseph Kony signing a peace accord on 10 April. Then she heard that the elusive Kony had failed to show...
Sudan: UN and AU envoys for Darfur crisis hold talks
2008-04-11
The United Nations and African Union envoys heading international efforts to resolve the Darfur conflict have travelled to the town of Juba for talks with the former southern Sudanese rebels as they seek to bring new momentum to the stalled political...
Uganda: Government team quits border after rebels refuse to sign
2008-04-11
Ugandan government negotiators quit peace talks on Friday after Uganda's fugitive rebel commander Joseph Kony delayed signing a final deal. "We are going back to Uganda until we are informed by the chief mediator when the Lord's Resistance Army will ...
Kenya: Security improves in Mt Elgon but fear remains
2008-04-11
Security in the Mt Elgon region of western Kenya, where the army was deployed in March to stop a local insurgency, has improved, but civilians still fear being targeted in the ongoing operation. "There is an improved sense of security and people are ...
Central Africa: Chad blamed for Sudan attack
2008-04-04
Sudan has accused Chad of bombing a village in Darfur, vowing to respond to the "aggressive and serious" violations of a fledgling peace agreement. Ali al-Sadiq, the Sudanese foreign ministry spokesman, said that a Chadian military helicopter "bombed...
Global: Landmine deaths drop in 2007
2008-04-04
While the number of people killed by anti-personnel landmines had dropped to an all-time low this year, there was a need for continued vigilance as a closer look at the statistics revealed that nearly half a million people injured by the deadly devic...
Tanzania: Mine disaster toll rises
2008-04-04
Rescuers are continuing their search in a flooded Tanzanian mine but hopes of finding survivors are fading. Thirteen bodies were retrieved on Monday, bringing the confirmed toll to 19, according to police. Officials say 75 were feared killed when hea...
Burundi: Politician jailed
2008-04-04
Supreme Court in Burundi has sentenced the former Chairman of President Pierre Nkurunziza's ruling Forces for the Defence of Democracy [FDD] to 13 years behind bars. Hussein Radjabu had been found guilty of attempting to “recruit former rebels with t...
Côte d’Ivoire: Soldiers riot in western towns
2008-03-28
Two towns in western Cote d’Ivoire have been shut off by two days of riots by disgruntled Ivorian soldiers. Troops started rampaging through the town of Duékoué, 400 km north west of the commercial capital Abidjan, on the morning of 24 March, protest...
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