A series of armed attacks on the UN refugee agency and other aid organisations has forced UNHCR to evacuate most of its staff from its office in Guereda in eastern Chad.
Fears of heavy fighting are running high in the Chadian capital N'djamena and throughout the country as anti-government rebel groups advance on the city.
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has said Uganda is ready to send thousands of additional troops to the volatile Somalia to help stabilise the struggling federal transitional government of the ailing president, Abdullahi Yusuf.
The former executive leader of the ousted Islamic Courts Union, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed who now lives in Asmara, Eritrea and who heads a group opposed to the Transitional Federal Government has called for reconciliation in Somalia.
One of the Somalia's transitional government parliament members namely Botan Isse Alim has been wounded in Mogadishu on Thursday night after armed groups attacked his residence with bombs.
The former executive leader of the defunct Islamic Courts Union, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed who now lives in Asmara, Eritrea and who heads a group opposed to the Transitional Federal Government has called for reconciliation in Somalia.
It was a day that started promisingly. Kofi Annan had led the first full session of negotiations between Kenya's feuding government and opposition. The atmosphere was described as "serious" and the six negotiators had started to make some headway. But
AN illegal petrol depot located at the popular McIver market yesterday afternoon went up in flames again, destroying drums of petrol products worth millions of naira.
First commercial-scale plant to use UOP technology to produce olefins from methanol derived from natural gas UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, announced yeterday that Viva Methanol Limited has selected the UOP/Hydro MTO process technology and the Total Petrochemicals/UOP Olefin Cracking
Commercial motorcycling in Rivers State may soon be phased out following a plan by the state government and private outfits to partner in a viable transport system that would make Okada operations unfashionable.
UGANDA Revenue Authority's audited accounts for the financial years ending 1998 to 2003 are missing, Commissioner General, Allen Kagina told legislators yesterday.
In response to a letter, Is Kamya inciting tribal conflict? (Daily Monitor, January 31) I would like to inform both the Association of Ugandans in Sussex, UK and Godfrey Bantutu from Netherlands that Kamya knew what she was writing about
DISTRICT, clubs and zonal associations that have not paid affiliation and participation fees will miss out on the National Cross Country Championships due February 9 in Soroti District.
