Hundreds of Somalis against the Israeli soldiers who are destroying Al-aqsa mosque have made large demonstrations in Mogadishu and several regions in southern Somalia.

Ending one of the world's longest-running refugee sagas, the United Nations announced that some 400 Burundians left Tanzania today returning to the Central African homeland they escaped in 1972.

The top United Nations peacekeeping official has stressed that ending the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region will require greater commitment and efforts by the parties involved, lamenting that the peace process has been moving very slowly.

An African international agreement has opened the door to a debate on the rights and protection of people displaced by natural disasters, with a nod to migration as a result of climate change.

African Union Peace and Security Council summit has endorsed AU Panel on Darfur recommendations on expansion and strengthening of the system of special Courts to deal with crimes committed in the conflict in Darfur.

President Umaru Musa Yar'adua has charged African leaders attending the African Union Peace and Security Council (PSC) conference in Abuja to device means of resolving the Darfur crisis in Sudan.

Three prominent jurists will form the international commission of inquiry to probe last month's violent crackdown on unarmed demonstrators in Guinea that led to the deaths of at least 150 people and the rape of many others, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

The top United Nations peacekeeping official, Under-Secretary-General Alain Le Roy, has stressed that ending the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region will require greater commitment and efforts by the parties involved, lamenting that the peace process has been moving very slowly.

N'zérékoré - Guinea junta leader Moussa Dadis Camara's home region - has an ethnically mixed population and has experienced communal clashes before. Guinea's latest political crisis has taken on an ethnic dimension there, according to local civil society activists.

At least three government soldiers have been killed and several others including civilians have been wounded after land mine explosion targeted to government soldiers' vehicle in Mogadishu, witnesses officials told Shabelle radio on Friday.

The Peace and Security Council of the African Union has called for the setting up of a Hybrid Court to address the issues of impunity and the state protection of those suspected of committing crimes against humanity in Dafur.

THE Government has with immediate effect fused the Task Force on Corruption into the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) in line with the National Anti-Corruption Policy, Vice-President George Kunda has said.

MORE than 235 households which have encroached on the land reserved for future expansion of the Lusaka International Airport will be relocated to Palabana in Chongwe District, Communications and Transport Minister Geoffrey Lungwangwa has said.

THE recent election of Nigeria into the United Nations (UN) Security Council on a non permanent basis represents a diplomatic triumph which must be built upon for the country to achieve its ultimate goal of permanent membership of the UN

Resettling the Internally Displace Persons (IDPs) was never going to be an easy task, but with a transparent, consistent and professional approach, it was hoped that it could be done. However, reports in the past week have accused the government

The world is a weird place. This week two prominent Frenchmen were given gaol sentences for their role in arms trafficking in Angola during the civil war period from 1993 to 1998.

More than 200,000 people in the Coast will be marooned by floods if the current rains persist.

The Senate yesterday urged the Federal Government to immediately and passionately pursue the completion of the next level of the peace in the Niger Delta region.

ARMY authorities in Lagos, yesterday, said investigation into the killing of a bureau-de-change operator, Tuesday, in Ikeja area of the state by a private soldier had begun, even as they have exonerated the private and members of his team from

IF the granting of amnesty to Niger Delta militants after the laying down of their lethal weapons could be described as a super political step by the President Yar'Adua, the move, [if it is true] to give oil producing areas