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The revolution in the Middle East has brought about a desired change for the people. It all started in Tunisia and spread to Egypt where the people won their freedom with a burning desire and sheer will power. It is not same for Libya. Qaddafi,...
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A referendum to determine Sudan’s political future will take place in January as scheduled, the U.S. envoy to the country, Scott Gration, said today.
Southern Sudan...
made popular Dec 14 2010
The war veterans of Zimbabwe are a feisty lot and have been used by Mugabe to perpetrate many misdemeanours and crimes on the population of Zimbabwe. And, in their...
made popular Nov 30 2010
Fourteen bodies, some of them mutilated with machetes, have been discovered in a river west of Burundi’s capital.
At least one of the victims - whose identities...
made popular Sep 23 2010
Sudan’s progress on organizing a key referendum in January is “too slow,” Norway’s diplomatic chief has warned about the vote over whether the...
made popular Sep 20 2010
Sri Lankan authorities Saturday began clearing rubble and wreckage after 25 people were killed in the first major explosion since the end of a decades-long civil...
made popular Sep 18 2010
Three former soldiers will go on trial for the 1982 massacre of more than 250 people, a judge ruled on Wednesday in the first such court case in Guatemala for crimes...
made popular Sep 9 2010
The army in Southern Sudan has pledged to demobilise all child soldiers by the end of the year.
The Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) has established a child...
made popular Aug 31 2010
Al-Shabaab, the Somali militant group that claimed responsibility for the bomb blasts in Kampala on July 11, though born and bred in Somalia, is a many-faced beast that...
made popular Jul 16 2010
Khartoum - Sudan is “alarmingly” unprepared for a January referendum on southern independence and international intervention is urgently needed to prevent a...
made popular Jul 15 2010
The joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping mission in Darfur today reported that 221 people lost their lives in the war-torn Sudanese region due to armed...
made popular Jul 12 2010
If Aussie political storms possessed some space in a foreign press, it is something extravagant usually, capable to divert a world readers’ interest at least for a...
made popular Jun 24 2010
Puerto Rico has often been voiced as a possible 51st state, but most Puerto Ricans in national referendums have preferred their status as a U.S. territory with American...
made popular Apr 19 2010
Families of victims of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco asked a court in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to investigate crimes against humanity allegedly carried out by his...
made popular Apr 16 2010
A long civil war, frequent droughts, unemployment and high food prices have led to an increase in the number of street children in Bosasso, the commercial capital of...
made popular Mar 10 2010
I wonder whose bright idea it was to call a war within a nation ‘civil’?
In my mind any conflict is decidedly uncivil. Read any history book for...
made popular Feb 16 2010
Sudan would accept the south’s secession if southerners were to vote for independence in a referendum next year, President Omar al-Bashir said.
Speaking at a...
made popular Jan 20 2010
As Sudan approaches its fifth anniversary of peace, the fragile accord which has held the north and the south together is unravelling and Africa’s biggest country...
made popular Dec 16 2009
Sierra Leone has launched an initiative to enlist boys as young as 10 as crime-fighting volunteers in Freetown.
Police chief Chris Charley said the capital, which is...
made popular Nov 20 2009
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A former leader of Congo’s Ninja militias has died in Paris, aged 76.
Bernard Kolelas was an MP in Congo at the time of his death and was a popular politician in...
made popular Nov 14 2009
Some major cracks have emerged in the “Tea Party” movement’s leadership.
In October, Amy Kremer, a founder and top staffer for the Tea Party Patriots...
made popular Nov 13 2009
Amid the ongoing financial regulation overhaul, the banking industry is hoping to pull off a quiet power grab that has eluded its grasp since the Great Depression, by...
made popular Nov 7 2009
Yemen’s civil war spilled into neighbouring Saudi Arabia for the first time yesterday when Shia gunmen shot dead a Saudi security officer in a cross-border...
made popular Nov 5 2009
The concerns have been triggered by Bosnian Serb leaders who have stepped up their demands for independence with a warning the country is no longer...
made popular Oct 19 2009
Persistent violence and a prolonged drought have plunged Somalia into its worst humanitarian crisis since civil war erupted two decades ago, with a third of its 10...
made popular Aug 26 2009
With the declaration of partial results of Presidential elections placing Hamid Karzai at the top while very closely followed by his main opponent the former foreign...
made popular Aug 26 2009
The Leonardo DiCaprio film “Blood Diamonds” informed a whole generation of moviegoers how illicit trading in diamonds fuels oppression of native people in...
made popular Jun 26 2009
Reports from southern Yemen say at least three people were killed when police broke up an unauthorised demonstration in Aden.
Others were injured, and dozens of...
made popular May 22 2009
A few months ago when Secretary Gates and the Department of Defense listed Mexico as one of the countries in the future that face destabilization. At the time the...
made popular Mar 13 2009
The international community now seems resigned to Somalia’s status as the world’s most failed state yet - almost unimaginably - the country is perilously close to a...
made popular Dec 19 2008
Few stories I read in the press install in me fear, but this in the New York Times did.
Fears of New Ethnic Conflict in Bosnia
Civil war broke out in Bosnia when...
made popular Dec 16 2008
It was 25 years ago this week that a minor insurgency in Sri Lanka began to turn into a full-scale civil war.
Sri Lankan soldier
The army is advancing in the north
An...
made popular Jul 24 2008
More and more people are conversing through facebook. But if you really think about it, it’s a pretty weird way to communicate. So, our intern Scott decided he’d...
made popular Jul 12 2008
Last night, at around 10.30 pm, the citizens of Tripoli, the second biggest city in Lebanon, started hearing gunshots, automatic weapons fire, and even rocket-propelled...
made popular Jul 9 2008
Robert Mugabe has been threatening Civil War if he loses the looming Zimbabwe run-off election. What he means is that he is just itching for an excuse to kill everyone...
made popular Jun 16 2008
A Singapore man was jailed for three years after he faked his own death in a civil war shoot-out in Sri Lanka in 1987 to escape his creditors and claim S$331,341
made popular Jun 5 2008
History repeats itself in every nation and everywhere. No country is liberated with a peace treaty signature, this is considered as hypocrisy. But true liberation comes...
made popular May 30 2008
As all of you are aware that Iraq is a country with many sectarian and ethnic groups. And in such countries it is very difficult to manage and administer the country...
made popular May 27 2008
In a distinct deja vu sense, Bangladesh’s military backed interim president Fakhruddin Ahmed forcing former prime ministers Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina into...
made popular Apr 21 2007
Iraq has now lived four years of brutal U.S. occupation, or a civil war to be precise, and has seen enough bloodshed since the toppling of Saddam’s 20-foot statue...
made popular Apr 9 2007
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