Nine former rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) last week surrendered to the Congolese army, bringing the total number of defectors in the last five months to 51.

A report describing soldiers' service conditions as a "ticking time bomb" demanded urgent action and should be made public, Democratic Alliance MP David Maynier said yesterday.

Charles Taylor was "not honest" with the United Nations Panel of Experts set up to investigate his alleged dealings with Sierra Leonean rebels, prosecutors told the Special Court for Sierra Leone today during cross-examination of the accused former Liberian president.

The case of the two top leaders of FDLR who were arrested in Germany on Tuesday will be re-examined in three months.

In response to reports that Kenya is recruiting youth to go and fight Somalia war, a Muslim clergy has cautioned Muslim youth not to allow themselves to be drawn by financial incentives and accept to undertake mercenary work outside the

A UN court, the ICTR has acquitted a Catholic priest charged with genocide and crimes against humanity during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

Shs 500bn spent on army per year but soldiers live in huts, lack toilets, dead bodies kept in patients wards

The Nigerian Army has disclosed that one Lt. Col. SS Jock, who is presently in court for wrongful court martial and dismissal, was retired and not court martialed.

FOR the Nigeria Navy (NN), they are nothing but a bunch of impersonators masquerading as naval officers. And this is why it has sworn to deal with these

WORRIED by the high rate of violence associated with general election, Delta State Commissioner of Police, Mr Yakubu Alkali, has sought for extra arms and ammunition to meet up with the challenges as the 2011 general election draw nearer.

UGANDA is to host a programme in which 2,000 Somalia security personnel will be trained by European Union (EU) soldiers.

UGANDAN special forces have killed a senior commander of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in the Central African Republic, the army spokesman said yesterday.

The Federal Government has commenced payment of arrears of allowances owed former militants in various camps in the Niger Delta region. Each of the former militants is entitled to N65,000 per month as stipend for the period of rehabilitation. There

NINE LRA who returned last month after spending 13 years in captivity have appealed for assistance from the Government to resume their education.

SECOND Republic Vice President and member of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees, Dr. Alex Ekwueme, says the constitutional conference of 1994 and 1995 would have laid to rest, the nagging issue of political power distribution in the country,

Former Chief of Naval Staff Vice Admiral Jubrila Ayinla yesterday decried the rot in the military, accusing successive governments in the country of failing to utilize abundant talents within the military.

Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State yesterday read the riot act to security agencies guarding the militant camp in Aluu to restrict their movements within the camp while those not resident in the facility should stay away pending when

Charles Taylor did not support plans to attack Sierra Leone while he was in Libya, the accused former Liberian president told Special Court for Sierra Leone judges today while being cross-examined by the prosecution.

THE Federal Government has commenced payment of arrears of allowances owed former militants in various camps in the Niger Delta.

Sheik Yusuf Mohamed Si'ad known as (Inda'adde), the minister of state of the transitional government for the defense ministry has held press conference through the telephone in Kampala on Thursday and apologized the Islamic clerics of Ahlu sunna Waljama'a for