Africa

Addis Ababa, 31 July– A lack of dialogue between Ethiopia and Eritrea could endanger peace between the two countries, the United Nations said on Thursday. Legwaila Joseph Legwaila, who heads the UN peacekeeping Mission in […]

Addis Ababa, 31 July– Senior Tigrayan officials have said they will not allow demarcation of the border between Ethiopia and Eritrea to go ahead unless changes are made to the controversial ruling. Dr Solomon Inquai, […]

Monrovia, 30 July– Diplomatic efforts to secure a ceasefire in Liberia and arrange the rapid deployment of Nigerian troops as the vanguard of an international stabilisation force moved into high gear on Wednesday, but heavy […]

New York, 30 July– The United States submitted a draft resolution to the U.N. Security Council July 30 that would support a multinational force for Liberia as well as a longer-term U.N. peacekeeping operation. ”Today […]

New York, 30 July– United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called on the Security Council to send a multinational peacekeeping force to the war-torn West African country as quickly as possible and to give it […]

Kinshasa, 30 July– Fighting has erupted between the Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie (RCD-Goma) and Mayi-Mayi militias in South Kivu Province of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), despite the recent formation of a […]

Nairobi, 30 July– The UN Secretary-General’s representative for Somalia, Winston Tubman, has said Somali peace talks will continue despite Wednesday’s walkout by the president of the Transitional National Government (TNG), Abdiqassim Salad Hassan. ”His absence […]

Freetown, Sierra Leone, 30 July– Former rebel leader Foday Sankoh, indicted by the Special Court for Sierra Leone for war crimes committed during 10 years of brutal conflict, atrocities and human rights violations in the […]