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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)

SUSPECTED Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) fighters have attacked Nzara region of South Sudan at least three times this month, forcing civilians to flee their homes, local officials said. (AllAfrica)

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the shooting attack on a United Nations helicopter on Thursday in Dongo in western Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that left three peacekeepers, a civilian pilot and one member of the Congolese national police wounded. (AllAfrica)

The 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) ended one of Africa's longest and complex civil wars, with nominal agreement reached on security, wealth sharing, and governance issues. But there are renewed fears that conflict could erupt again in the country as divisions between the north and the south deepen. (AllAfrica)

THE United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) public information assistant, Kelvin Shimo has said the number of Congolese refugees Zambia is repatriating back to their home country has continued to rise with a total of 33,424 since 2007. (AllAfrica)

Failure by African Union officials to account for millions of dollars for Somalia operations has dried up payments for the 4,500 peace-keeping troops after upset donors abruptly halted disbursements. (AllAfrica)

The government of Mali declared in early June that it would mount a "merciless struggle" against terrorist forces operating in the country's far northern desert. President Amadou Toumani Touré vowed that the killers of a British hostage, murdered just a few days earlier, would not escape unpunished. Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), a predominantly Algerian dissident group that had claimed credit for the execution, reacted a few days later by assassinating a colonel in the Malian intelligence service. (AllAfrica)

Charles Taylor helped three major Sierra Leonean rebel commanders to reconcile their differences but such reconciliation was not for purposes of a military takeover of the country, the accused former Liberian president told Special Court for Sierra Leone judges today in The Hague. (AllAfrica)

The Human Rights Watch has urged the Federal Government to investigate and prosecute members of security forces implicated in the killing of more than 130 civilians in Jos, about a year ago, and those involved in series of subsequent abuses. (AllAfrica)

The African Union (AU) peacekeeping troops from Burundi and Uganda deployed in Somalia have not been paid since May this year, an official has said. (AllAfrica)

The Group of Experts appointed by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, has delivered on its mandate, producing a report that seems to be well-researched and detailed in its accusations against those giving support to the rebel outfit, FDLR. (AllAfrica)

The United Nations Security Council's tenuous authority in Africa has been further threatened by an explosive new report from a UN Group of Experts* showing wide-ranging violations of the arms embargo on Congo-Kinshasa by both Western and African states. (AllAfrica)

The Liberian Muslim Community is apparently embroiled in a scandal, with some Legislators allegedly linked, resulting into the deportation of Several Liberian Muslim members from the ongoing Hajj in Saudi Arabia. (AllAfrica)

Kwara State Governor, Dr Bukola Saraki has appealed to adherents of religious groups in Nigeria to continue to live together peacefully and display love towards one another as only this can make the country to progress. (AllAfrica)

Ugandan government allegedly turned a blind eye as Rwandan Hutu rebels drafted fighters from refugee camps in the country, a new UN report says. (AllAfrica)

The Regional Minister and Chairman of the Upper East Regional Security Council (REGSEC), Mark Woyongo, has endorsed or justified what has been described as "ill and unprofessional" conduct of some soldiers, who allegedly brutalised and stripped naked two suspects in the Bawku conflict. (AllAfrica)

A block of 12 bedroom flats worth about 80 million naira and a road of about 3 kilometers have been commissioned by the Minister of Defence , Major General Godwin Abbe (rtd) were commissioned at the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) yesterday in Abuja. (AllAfrica)

The President of the Republic and Commander-in-Chief of The Gambia Armed Forces, His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya AJJ Jammeh, has with effect from yesterday, demoted Lt Colonel Kawsu Camara, alias Bombadier, to a private and dismissed him from the Gambia Armed Forces, a press release from the Office of the President reveals. (AllAfrica)

Following a press release with both the print and electronic media on what the military calls the unnecessary usage of military gears, the Armed Forces spokesperson Lt Omar Bojang said their efforts are not successful. He urged the general public to surrender all military gears to the nearest Barracks. (AllAfrica)

Former Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida has commended the Amnesty programme initiated by President Umaru Yar'Adua to end the militancy in the Niger Delta region. (AllAfrica)

Lately, the Federal Government is beginning to demonstrate what could pass for a genuine eagerness to transform the long-neglected but oil-rich Niger delta region. (AllAfrica)

Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State has identified peace and unity as a major ingredient needed for the survival of the nation. (AllAfrica)

Governor Martin Elechi of Ebonyi State has called on the Muslim faithful in the state to use the occasion of this year's Eid-el-Kabir celebration to renew their spirit of obedience to the will of Allah. (AllAfrica)

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)