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Somalia's militant group Al-Shabaab has seized control of Dobley, a southern border town located between Somalia and Kenya, witnesses said. (AllAfrica)

US Senator Russ Feingold's statement - Senate committee passes Feingold Bill requiring new strategy to confront the Lord's Resistance Army rebellion in Northern Uganda. (AllAfrica)

Somalia's al-Shabaab insurgents have captured a key town close to the border with Kenya. The al Qaeda linked rebels are said to have driven out combatants of Hizbu-Islam, another Islamist group opposing the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia (TFG), to take control of Dhobley, the border town. (AllAfrica)

The Ministry of Defence (MINADEF) announced yesterday that Rwanda is now a mine - free country, after it completed a demining campaign ahead of the December 1, 2010 deadline set by the Ottawa Convention. (AllAfrica)

The self-proclaimed leader of Somalia's Al-Shabaab militant has vowed that his group will intensify its war with Un-backed Somali government and African Union peacekeeping troops in the restive capital Mogadishu. (AllAfrica)

Several Hizbul Islam officials led by Sheikh Ahmed Mohammed Islam (Madobe) have reportedly crossed the border into neighbouring Kenya, escaping the wrath of Al-Shabaab who ousted them out of Somalia's southern region of Lower Jubba, sources said. (AllAfrica)

The rape, in Kano recently, of two female members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) by suspected robbers, is another in the growing number of cases of desecration of a national symbol, which must be roundly condemned. (AllAfrica)

A solid security plan is in place for Friday's Fifa draw as hordes of police and army officers, private security personnel and intelligence agents descend on Cape Town, determined to stage a seamless event after the fiasco of the Confederations Cup. (AllAfrica)

Chief Rita Lori Ogbebor yesterday at the palace of the Olu of Warri narrowly escaped death at the ongoing Itsekiri National Conference organized by HRM Ogiame Atuwatse 11 to chart a new path for the Itsekiri land when some politicians invaded venue of the conference and wreaked havoc on participants, communication gadgets and other equipment put in place for the August event. (AllAfrica)

Chief Ngozi Chukwuka Ibeaha is a leading industrialist from Achi, Orji River Local Government Area of Enugu State. He is the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of Eugene Rose Industries Limited based in Lagos. His company operates, amongst numerous other ventures, an ultra modern bottle water plant (De-Rose Waters) at Ibah, Lagos State with a workforce of over 500 Nigerians. The enigma popularly called Onwa Achi spoke on current issues in the country. (AllAfrica)

General Owoye Andrew Azazi was born in Peretorugbene in present Bayelsa State. He had his early education in the old Bendel State of Nigeria where he attended Government College Bomadi and graduated in the class of 1968 after which he joined the Nigerian Defence Academy Regular Combatant Cadet- Course 12 0n 3 July, 1972. (AllAfrica)

One person was reported dead and no fewer than 20 others sustained gun shot and machete injuries in Bayelsa State yesterday following clashes between supporters of Deputy Governor Peremobowei Ebebi and Commissioner of Conflict Resolution and Youth Affairs, Bekes Etifa over the control of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) structure in Ekeremor Local Government Area of the state during yesterday's chairmanship primaries in the council. (AllAfrica)

More than 1000 children below the age of five in Hayin Banki and other areas around Kaduna North Local Government Area of Kaduna State, were freely de-wormed at the weekend by men of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF), in addition to having the community's drainages, motor garages and streets cleaned. (AllAfrica)

ONE of the outcomes of Structural Adjustment after 1992 was the weakening of the civil service. Large numbers of civil servants were retired: those in higher positions were given "golden handshakes", whilst those in lower positions had to retire unceremoniously to the Communal Areas. (AllAfrica)

Botswana is currently doing an audit to make sure that illicit diamonds do not enter the country when its independent diamond market starts operations. (AllAfrica)

The Borno State governor, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, and his Adamawa State counterpart, Admiral Murtala Nyako, have called on Muslims all over the world to live in peace with one another.Governor Sheriff made the call in his Sallah message signed by the Director Press Government House, Maiduguri, Zannah Usman Chiroma. (AllAfrica)

The Bayelsa State Deputy Governor, Peremobowei Ebebi, yesterday escaped being killed as armed youths attacked his convoy along the Patani road in Delta State, while on his way from his hometown in Ekeremor where violence marred the primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the local government election in Bayelsa State. (AllAfrica)

Real Admiral Matthew Quashie, Chief of the Naval Staff, on Thursday observed that the nation's democratic gains and the goodwill it was enjoying on the international scene were being threatened by the menace of narcotics and arms trafficking. (AllAfrica)

Vice President John Dramani Mahama on Friday described the military brutality meted out to some civilians in conflict- stricken Bawku as unfortunate and regrettable. (AllAfrica)

The former president of the semi-autonomous region of Puntland General Adde Muse Hersi has Sunday said that some of the regions' troops joined the Somali pirates operating in the Indian Ocean and coast of Somalia. (AllAfrica)

More new residents around the neighborhoods near Warshadaha street in the Somali capital Mogadishu started displacing from their houses due to the fears of fresh fighting between the Islamist fighters and the transitional government troops backing by AMSIOM, witnesses said on Sunday. (AllAfrica)

The leader of Somalia's Hizbul Islam group, Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweyshas plead with Al-Shabaab to stop escalating the fighting in the southern Somalia. (AllAfrica)

The transitional government troops have conducted operations in Hamar Weyne district in Mogadishu and captured more than 30 people charging they were creating insecurity activities there, officials told Shabelle radio on Sunday. (AllAfrica)

The Islamist fighters of Harakat Al-shabab Mujahideen in southern Somalia have detained more people accusing of violating the orders of the Islamic administration there in southern Somalia, officials said on Monday. (AllAfrica)

They routinely come under attack from insurgents and have already lost 80 of their colleagues, so the least you would expect is that the African Union soldiers in war-torn Somalia would be paid on time. (AllAfrica)

The United Nations is finally having to confront what most observers already know: Its limited but unconditional support for a Congolese army operation to disarm Rwandan Hutu rebels in eastern Congo has made a bad situation worse. (AllAfrica)

At least 30 persons sustained serious injuries, from gunshot and machetes during yesterday's controversial Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chairmanship primaries in Ekeremor and Sagbama local governments in Bayelsa state. (AllAfrica)

THE ruling National Resistance Movement and the opposition political parties represented in Parliament - the Forum for Democratic Change; Democratic Party; Uganda People's Congress, Conservative Party and Justice Forum (JEEMA) have over the past few months been discussing establishment of a formal inter-party dialogue forum Facilitated by The Netherlands-based organisation - The Netherlands Institute for multi-party democracy, the inter-party forum is intended to provide the political parties with a mechanism where they will dialogue on issues relating to the deepening of democracy in the country. (AllAfrica)

THE defence state minister, Maj. Gen. Jeje Odongo, has cautioned UPDF officers against reckless lifestyles, saying they could pay for it with their own lives. (AllAfrica)

The Niger Delta Youth Mirror for Good Governance (NDYMGG) has threatened to stage a mass protest unless the members of the House of Representatives Committee on Niger Delta Affairs apologise to the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs Ubong Ufot Ekaette over alleged uncomplimentary remarks on him. (AllAfrica)

There is a growing indication that the West Africa region is becoming a piracy zone as rebels from Nigeria's troubled Delta Region seem to be extending their activities outside their country's borders. Not only that, there is also worry that drug cartels and the proliferation of arms have gradually contributed to make the region a danger zone. (AllAfrica)