UGANDA'S army today urged the Democratic Republic of Congo and U.N. peacekeepers there to attack the Lord Resistance Army rebels and force the guerrillas' elusive leader to sign a peace deal.

The head of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Liberia stressed the importance of providing the National Police (LNP) with all the resources necessary to enforce the rule of law, during a hand-over of a newly-constructed police station today.

MONUC Force Commander General Babacar Gaye gave an interview to Radio Okapi - the United Nations Radio in the DRC - on Monday 8 September 2008, in which he explained MONUC's military support to the peace process in eastern DRC,

Zimbabwe's stop-start talks, stalled negotiations and the lexicon of logjam and political impasse have all conspired to consign the issue of transitional justice to the back burner.

Southern African Development Community, SADC, leaders' decision to allow President Robert Mugabe to convene parliament in breach of the terms of power-sharing negotiations was a miscalculation, say analysts.

In continuation of the invasion and blessing of invasion in violation of Somalia's sovereignty and territorial integrity, foreign companies are engaged in the looting of fishery and other marine resources in the territorial waters of Somalia and the Southern Red

The combined efforts of the various agencies of the Bayelsa State Government, security agencies and a phone call from the Governor, Chief Timipre Sylva, to youths involved in the invasion of ConOil platform at Sangana Community of Brass local government

The head of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Liberia stressed the importance of providing the National Police (LNP) with all the resources necessary to enforce the rule of law, during a hand-over of a newly-constructed police station today.

President Kibaki has urged the international community to intervene in Somalia.

Four principal zones were the theatre of confrontations in North and the South Kivu on Tuesday, and were the subject of major interventions by MONUC troops.

The top United Nations relief official today voiced deep concern about reports of fresh violence in the north of the war-torn Darfur region of western Sudan, especially a recent Government military offensive and attacks on aid workers by armed groups.

Many thousands of civilians in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province, many of them repeatedly displaced, have been forced to flee again amid heavy clashes between government forces and troops loyal to renegade Gen Laurent Nkunda.

Reports are emerging that veterans of Zimbabwe's war of liberation will challenge any deal that sees President Robert Mugabe giving up power.

A THIRD day of power-sharing negotiations in Zimbabwe ended last night with Robert Mugabe refusing to sign a pact that would curtail his powers, despite making some concessions to his rival Morgan Tsvangirai of the Movement for Democratic Change.

Any country, wherever in the world it may maybe, should make its position clear; that it is either with us or with the terrorists." These are the words of US President George, W. Bush, said in 2001 shortly after the

The law requiring Muslims to provide extra proof of nationality during application for national identity cards and passports is set for repeal.

A Kenyan woman held a United Nations forum spellbound as she told how the 1998 US embassy bombing in Nairobi had plunged her into poverty and depression.

AUTHORITIES are struggling to prevent counterfeit goods entering SA as criminals are using embassies to smuggle the products into the country.

National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has said with effect from this week, it has released new rules and regulations to guide importation, registration and marketing of food, drugs and cosmetic products in the country.

AFRICA First ReNaissance Corporation Limited (Afre) is vigorously pursuing its goals of growing the regional market and export of products and services to improve foreign revenues.