(SomaliNet) Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) is in the spotlight again for its brutality against civilians.
The Ugandan rebels attacked the DRC’s eastern territory of Dungu, killing at least 52 people and abducting 159 children, the UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONU
(SomaliNet) Ex-Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda told Ugandan journalists yesterday that HIV/AIDS is a war Africa has to win.
The former Zambian leader is in Uganda to launch Cavendish University in Uganda, which was recently licensed by the National Council for Higher Education. Kaunda is the ch
(SomaliNet) A ministry official said Sudan's foreign ministry on Monday summoned the ambassadors of Kenya and Ethiopia over concerns their countries had shipped arms to the semi-autonomous South Sudan government.
The summons comes in the wake of the arrival of an Ethiopian plane carrying light ar
(SomaliNet) In what brings to about 3,400 the total number of African Union peacekeepers stationed in Somalia, Burundi has completed its deployment of another 850 soldiers to Somalia, an army spokesman said Tuesday.
"Burundi had already deployed some 850 soldiers to Somalia as part of AMISOM (Afr
(SomaliNet) Appealing for a further $265 million from donors, Ethiopia said on Tuesday that 6.4 million of its people now needed emergency food aid due to drought.
Since April, the food crisis in Ethiopia has steadily worsened when the government estimated that some 2.2 million people needed eme
(SomaliNet) As part of a major smuggling operation, Kenyan police intercepted 65 Ethiopian illegal migrants who were headed for South Africa, a senior officer said.
Reports say Kenyan police intercepted a truck carrying the young Ethiopians on their way from Nairobi to the port of Mombasa on Tues
(SomaliNet) Ethiopia on Tuesday condemned Human Rights Watch's call on Ethiopia's lawmakers to reject a draft law that would give government more control in the affairs of foreign aid groups.
Human Rights Watch, the New York-based rights group on Monday said the Charities and Societies Proclamati
(SomaliNet) Mistakes by the international community have prolonged the conflict and that there is no immediate prospect for peace, the commander of the UN-led peacekeeping force in Darfur says.
General Martin Agwai's comments come as the Sudanese government is set to launch an initiative on resol
(SomaliNet) Eighteen Sudanese officials who withdrew from posts in Darfur in protest at a violent government raid said on Tuesday they had returned to work to campaign for peace in the region.
The officials from former southern rebels the Sudan People's Liberation Movement walked out in September
(SomaliNet) After spending three days in prison over an article criticizing high salaries in south Sudan's legal ministry, a Sudanese newspaper editor said on Tuesday he had been freed.
Nhial Bol of The Citizen daily said he was detained on Friday by police, who said he had been accused of defama
