Land reform in Côte d'Ivoire must take into account people displaced by conflict, says a report by the International Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).

Kenya has increased security surveillance along the border with Somalia to prevent the fighting in the lawless state from spilling over into the country.

Increased banditry, kidnappings of relief workers and attacks on humanitarian compounds in eastern Chad are threatening crucial aid for nearly 100,000 people, many of them refugees or internally displaced persons (IDP), the United Nations reported today.

The president of the Transitional Federal Government Sharif Sheik Ahmed has Tuesday visited several military bases of the government troops in south of the Somali capital Mogadishu.

The cabinet of ministers of the Transitional Federal Government approved a Federal Constitution during a meeting in Mogadishu on Sunday.

Graham Murray writes from Switzerland as the country votes to ban the building of minarets.