The validity of the International Criminal Court's indictment of Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir notwithstanding, the decision and others involving Congolese politician and warlord Jean Pierre Bemba and former Liberian President Charles Taylor, smack of a selective approach to justice.

The UPDF Chief of Defence Forces, Gen. Aronda Nyakairima, has urged the wives of soldiers to engage in income-generating activities to supplement the earnings of their spouses.

The bail conditions that apply in the High Court also apply in the army's General Court Martial, the Supreme Court has ruled. The Supreme Court recently dismissed an appeal by the Attorney General seeking to overturn a Constitutional Court ruling,

The rate of new HIV infection is high among the armed forces compared to the civilian population, the director general of the Uganda AIDS Commission has said.

Over 6,000 residents who helped the army to defeat the Allied Democratic Force rebels in western Uganda, have been paid.

It was a show of professionalism when the 145-year-old Nigeria Army recently celebrated its day in Kaduna. The event usually observed every July 6th in commemoration of the day the first shot that signaled the onset of Nigeria's 30-month civil

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence (NSCDC) has reiterated its determination to sanitize all Private Guards Companies (PGC) operating in the country to enhance security of lives and property.

The Spokesman of the Rwandan defence forces, spokesman Maj. Jill Rutaremara, has said that the hybrid United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur, (UNAMID), needs a stronger mandate and better equipment.

Kigali International Airport was on Wednesday night filled with grief-stricken relatives of the recently deceased UN/AU peacekeepers in Darfur as the fallen soldiers' bodies were flown in.

About 100 American soldiers are in Abuja to help train African soldiers, including Nigerian soldiers on the use of sophisticated military weapons and communications equipment.

The insurgence of Niger Delta militants continued yesterday, as unidentified gunmen blew up the Tebidaba oil pipeline, belonging to Italian oil giant, Nigeria Agip Oil Company (NAOC), in Southern Ijaw local government area of Bayelsa state.

THE president of the ANC, South Africa's ruling party, Jacob Zuma, has told African armies to stay out of politics.

About 2,475 anti-personnel mines were de-activated and destroyed in the first semester of the current year, in the south-eastern Kuando Kubango Province, by the NGO The Halo Trust, informed Thursday to ANGOP the organisation's Operations chief, José António.

LITTLE has been heard of the Southern African Development Community (SADC ) standby force since its launch last year.

The coming academic year will start with a strike action by lecturers of State Universities in Cameroon, the National Union of Teachers of Higher Education, with French acronym, SYNES, has announced.

National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) yesterday threatened to embark on a nationwide protest if the Federal Government refuses to immediately respond to the National Union of Teachers (NUT) demands.

Two years ago, a non-governmental organisation seeking to ascertain the professions most sought after by young Nigerians sent 100 questionnaires each to five schools in the FCT.

The northern states may reintroduce teacher training colleges to ensure that more trained teachers are produced for schools in the region.

Crisis is now brewing between staff of the Kano State Investment and Properties Limited over what the workers described as poor welfare and refusal of the management to implement the 15% salary increment as approved by the state government since

For three weeks now, teachers in public primary and secondary schools in the country have embarked on industrial action. The implication is that half of the children of school age are at present not in school. This is because there