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Two foreign journalists, held for more than 15 months in the restive Somali capital Mogadishu, have been released, reports say (AllAfrica)

As our UN helicopter landed in Muglad, the large crowd of locals and tribal elders quickly approached our small plane. We were quickly ushered into a meeting hall, where we listened intently as the Misseriya tribal elders spoke passionately about their community’s concerns. (AllAfrica)

A group of 22 children, aged about 10 and 11 were freed by Lord's Resistance Army rebels Sunday night. (AllAfrica)

A total of 64 fighters of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebel group have since October surrendered and returned home from the Democratic Republic of Congo. (AllAfrica)

Charles Taylor today admitted that he sent his Chief of Protocol to accompany a Sierra Leonean rebel commander to Burkina Faso in 1998 but denied that he helped him transport arms and ammunition through Liberia for use by rebel forces in Sierra Leone. (AllAfrica)

An explosive report from a UN group of experts has exposed a network of allies comprising of individuals, companies, charities and governments that have aided the survival of FDLR by supplying the ragtag rebel outfit with arms in exchange for Congo's minerals. (AllAfrica)

Despite progress in Sudan in the past two years in tackling the problem of children in armed conflict, many challenges remain, ranging from reintegrating child soldiers to dealing with youngsters abducted by the Ugandan rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) who have been brainwashed into killing their own parents, a senior United Nations official said today. (AllAfrica)

The Nigerian government has not brought a single prosecution or even begun investigations a year after Nigerian policemen and soldiers killed more than 130 civilians in responding to deadly sectarian clashes in the central Nigerian city of Jos, Human Rights Watch said today. (AllAfrica)

Traffic in Pretoria was brought to a standstill on Thursday when members of the South African Navy marched through the streets in support of the 16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children campaign. (AllAfrica)

At least one civilian has been killed and another one wounded in Derkenley district in south of the Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Wednesday. (AllAfrica)

More than 300 former combatants in Darfur, including women and disabled persons, have participated in a three-day discharge programme organized by the Government of Sudan with support from the joint African Union-United Nations mission in Darfur. (AllAfrica)

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said today it is ramping up efforts to feed tens of thousand of Congolese who fled a recent outbreak of tribal violence in north-western Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). (AllAfrica)

Lord's Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony survived the aerial-UPDF 'surprise' attack, code named Operation Lightning Thunder, on his camp in Garamba, in December 2008 because he had intelligence information on the assault two days before. (AllAfrica)

Over 11 million people are displaced by conflict and climate change-related natural disasters in Africa every year according to Afrian Union convention on internally displaced persons. (AllAfrica)

The Church in the Sudan has appealed to its counterparts elsewhere in the world to support it on the country's Darfur crisis issue. (AllAfrica)

The company that was contracted to build bridges across a river in Senyawe and Butale is defiantly blocking the bridges pending payment for their job from government. (AllAfrica)

As part of the initiative of the Federal Government to effectively combat disasters in the country, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has trained 65 officers from the six geo-political zones of the federation in specialized search and rescue. (AllAfrica)

The third in the series of the summits on peace in Africa organised by the Inter Faith Action for Peace in Africa IFAPA was held at the Crest Lodge in Gaborone, Botswana, November 16 -21 2009. (AllAfrica)

The US ambassador, Mr Alfonso Lenhardt, yesterday swore in 38 Peace Corps Volunteers ahead of their two years of service in Tanzania. (AllAfrica)

Police and the Tanzania People's Defence Force (TPDF) have launched a manhunt for a soldier, who went berserk on Monday, and opened fire on his colleagues, killing two of them on the spot in Kigoma Region. (AllAfrica)

The Federal Government yesterday approved the sum of -68.6 million for the purchase of five helicopters for the aerial surveillance and reconnaissance of the Niger Delta region. (AllAfrica)

Following the embracement of the amnesty offer by majority of the Niger-Delta militants, after years of hostility and destruction of oil facilities, the Federal Government has entered into various deals with the militants. Offer of money has been the major attraction for the militants who have submitted a major part of the massive arsenals in their possession. (AllAfrica)

FORMER Minister of Justice, Chief Bayo Ojo (SAN), on Tuesday in Cardiff, United Kingdom, recommended the Nigeria-Cameroon approach in the resolution of the Bakassi conflict to the international community. (AllAfrica)

Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babatunde Fashola has urged National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members posted to the state to accept postings to various areas of primary assignment in good faith. (AllAfrica)

The problems of the Niger Delta are Marginalization, lack of infrastructural development and lack of political space. These problems gave rise to youth militancy. The federal Government is in a hurry to stop the militancy for each immediate gains of increased oil production but appear not to be equally eager to address the real problems of Niger Delta. (AllAfrica)

Chairman of the 34-man peace committee set up by Mbano Autonomous community, Agwa in Oguta local government Area, Chief Clement Nnorom has vowed to deal to the root all, social vicas leading to the youth unrest and frequent communal clashes prevalent in the area. (AllAfrica)

THE Amnesty Commission on Tuesday received an award in recognition of its nine-year-work of resettling over 23,000 former rebels. (AllAfrica)

A Karimojong warrior commander has been sentenced to nine years in prison for unlawful possession of firearms. (AllAfrica)

THE massive repatriation of Sudanese refugees has left districts West Nile with unutilised land. The bushes have engulfed social facilities like schools and safe water sources, which local authorities have failed to put to proper use. (AllAfrica)

Even after the civil war that ended in 2005, hundreds of Sudanese are resettling in Arua District despite the return of peace in their motherland, the deputy resident district commissioner has said. (AllAfrica)

Pirates suspected to come from Nigeria have attacked an oil tanker off the coast of west Africa, killing a Ukrainian seaman, the commander of Benin's naval forces says. (AllAfrica)