Civil War

The movie Godzilla depicts a giant mutated man-eating lizard wreaking havoc in New York's Madison Square. It takes the courage of a few individuals to destroy the monster and its offspring. (AllAfrica)

Ijaw National Human Rights Organisation (INHRO), has condemned the lingering communal dispute, which has led to reprisal attacks between the Odimodi and Ogulagha Ijaw communities and urged immediate end to the hostilities. (AllAfrica)

The United States should use its Security Council presidency in February to urgently seek a transition of the African Union force in Darfur to a United Nations mission with a strong mandate to protect civilians, said Human Rights Watch and the International Crisis Group yesterday in letters to U.S. President George W. Bush and members of the U.N. Security Council. (AllAfrica)

Determined to put an end to perennial clashes between Fulani herdsmen and farmers in the state, Jigawa State government has constituted a high powered inter-governmental committee, to find lasting solution to the clashes. (AllAfrica)

It was Easter Sunday. They had just sat down for a huge meal, when a gang of armed men attacked. Her husband was shot twice by a bearded man wearing a mask and an overcoat. (AllAfrica)

Nigeria’s President Umaru Yar’Adua needs to act decisively to keep violence in the oil-rich Niger Delta from escalating and spreading. (AllAfrica)

Niger Delta militants have kidnapped a 75-year-old father of a former member, Rivers State House of Assembly, Pa Christian Mba in Port Harcourt, the state capital. (AllAfrica)

Somalia's northeastern self-declared autonomous region of Puntland has appealed for assistance for hundreds of displaced families from Sool region, which was overrun by forces loyal to the self-declared republic of Somaliland on 15 October. (AllAfrica)

The Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta, MEND says it will extend its bombing campaigns beyond the creeks of the region to other parts of the country if the Federal Government "accedes to the military's request to raid militant camps" in the Niger Delta. (AllAfrica)

BEFORE THE WORLD KNEW it, on March 19, 2003, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan was informed by the White House that the war in Iraq had begun. The first warplanes would be over Iraq in a few hours. (AllAfrica)

Laurent Nkunda was born in Rutshuru in 1967 near the Park of Virunga which was called Park Albert in colonial days. After the Genocide in Rwanda, the killers moved to Nkunda's homeland and proceeded on doing the same thing they had done in Rwanda. (AllAfrica)

Glen View  legislator Paul Madzore and 14 party activists accused of undergoing terrorism training in South Africa, yesterday, had their charges withdrawn before plea. (AllAfrica)

THREATS by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels that they will launch attacks in northern Uganda if their bases in DR Congo are attacked are causing tension in the north. (AllAfrica)

A delegation from the Ministry of Former Combatants and War Veterans led by its deputy minister, Lourenço Diogo Contreiras Neto, attends the ninth 19th Conference of the World War Veterans Federation that happens from this Monday to next September 07 in Singapore. (AllAfrica)

WHEN African scholar Mahmoud Mandani looks at the slaughter and displacement of civilians in Darfur he notices something odd. (AllAfrica)

All About Darfur: Is Sudan in a culture of war? (AllAfrica)

Ntai Bagshaw traces the genesis of the Nigerian civil war, otherwise called the 'Biafran War', which was fuelled by deep-seated ethnic and religious rivalry in the polity and armed forces (AllAfrica)

Gakem, a community in Bakwarra Local Government Area of Cross River State is a unique place in several respects. Historically it was the border town between northern and southern Nigeria, between southern and eastern regions between the old Benue Plateau and South-Eastern State, and today between Benue and Cross River States. (AllAfrica)

It is still agony for the veterans of the civil war who were disabled fighting for the soul of the former Biafra. (AllAfrica)

June 13, 2007 marked the introduction of a motion in the German Parliament (Bundestag), dubbed: "Acknowledgement of and Reparations for German Colonial Crimes in the former South-West Africa". (AllAfrica)

Burundi appeared to be on course to lasting peace following a decade of bloodletting. This comes after the government and the remaining rebels, Palipehutu-Forces Nationales de LibÈration (FNL), agreed last week to reactivate a ceasefire agreement signed in November 2006, in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. (AllAfrica)

The Government of Sudan is saying that it is ready to accept a United Nations peacekeeping force in the troubled Darfur region. It also says it is ready to participate in a joint UN-African Union mediation to resolve the conflict, which has driven 2.5 million people from their homes, and threatens to spread into neighbouring Chad and engulf a much wider region. (AllAfrica)

The security situation in the southern Darfur town of Gereida has not improved and militia attacks against civilians, especially women, are continuing, the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) said today after wrapping up a four-day visit to the town. (AllAfrica)

Governor threatens to confiscate and reallocate disputed area to development partners if efforts to demarcate fail. (AllAfrica)

Peter Tieh Nde, S.G. North-West governor's office talked to C.T on the new clashes pitting Oku and Mbessa in Bui and Boyo Divisions. (AllAfrica)

A violent exchange of gun shots have again jeopardized peace between the villages of Mbessa, Belo Sub Division and Ichim, Oku Sub Division since May 5th 2007. Barely two months after the last confrontation that pit both communities resulting in massive destruction of property, they are again crossing swords over the disputed piece of land that separate Ichim in Oku, Bui Division and Mbessa in Boyo Division. (AllAfrica)

The situation in the volatile city, Mogadishu, is calm on Friday as Somali government and Ethiopian troops are in control of the areas where the fighting took place in the past eight days. (AllAfrica)

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced his grave concern about the intensified violence in Somalia, and called on the world to step up its assistance to the war-torn East African nation. (AllAfrica)

First Lady Lucy Kibaki will on Monday visit the troubled Mt Elgon District, where independent reports say more than 140 people have been killed. (AllAfrica)

Shaking hands and embracing, Uganda's government and Lord's Resistance Army rebels signed a new two-month truce on Saturday, boosting efforts to end one of Africa's longest and most brutal wars. (AllAfrica)

MEMBERS of Parliament from Karamoja region have written to the government demanding that former warriors and disarmed civilians be given certificates of surrender. (AllAfrica)