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The United Nations mission set up to protect civilians and facilitate humanitarian aid in Chad and Central African Republic (CAR) received a boost this week with the arrival of troops from Cambodia. (AllAfrica)

A UN court, the ICTR has acquitted a Catholic priest charged with genocide and crimes against humanity during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. (AllAfrica)

A total of 34 rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) have surrendered to the UPDF intelligence squad in Faradje in eastern Congo Nzara, according to military sources. (AllAfrica)

In late October, the Puntland government arrested five men of Ogadeni origin.  These men came to Puntland using Somali travel documents provided by Somali authorities in Yemen. (AllAfrica)

In response to reports that Kenya is recruiting youth to go and fight Somalia war, a Muslim clergy has cautioned Muslim youth not to allow themselves to be drawn by financial incentives and accept to undertake mercenary work outside the country. (AllAfrica)

Renewed clashes in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have led to a further wave of refugees, leaving corpse-littered villages in the affected area deserted, say humanitarian officials. (AllAfrica)

The United Nations refugee agency today condemned the latest xenophobic attacks that have driven some 3,000 foreigners, including refugees and asylum-seekers from Zimbabwe, from a community in South Africa. (AllAfrica)

Armed conflict, inadequate infrastructure, weak governance, limited financing and technological abilities, and policies that stifle entrepreneurship, limit competition and raise the cost of doing business are hindering the industrialization that Africa needs to fully join the global economy, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned today. (AllAfrica)

Nine former rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) last week surrendered to the Congolese army, bringing the total number of defectors in the last five months to 51. (AllAfrica)

THE Federal Government has commenced payment of arrears of allowances owed former militants in various camps in the Niger Delta. (AllAfrica)

The United Nations Human Rights Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has denied running a repatriation programme that promised Zimbabwean refugees in South Africa R7000, computers and other equipment to start up businesses once back home. Last month it was reported the refugees signed up for the programme on the back of these promises but once back home nothing was delivered. (AllAfrica)

The transitional federal government president Sharif Sheik Ahmed has held press conference in Mogadishu on Friday and said that he was very sorry for the misunderstanding between the TFG, Puntland and Ahlu Sunna. (AllAfrica)

Farmers in De Doorns have rejected allegations that they are paying Zimbabwean immigrants lower than the minimum wage and are therefore responsible for the xenophobic attacks that erupted in the region this week. (AllAfrica)

Child rights advocates have said there is still room for expansion of the definition of 'children involved in armed conflict' and formalizing both preventive and protective measures to address the issue, twenty years following the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), 11 years following the Optional Protocol (OP) and two years consequent to the Paris Principles (PP). (AllAfrica)

PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni told cultural leaders on Wednesday that a Bill that will regulate relations between them and the central government has been approved by cabinet. (AllAfrica)

A report describing soldiers' service conditions as a "ticking time bomb" demanded urgent action and should be made public, Democratic Alliance MP David Maynier said yesterday. (AllAfrica)

Charles Taylor was "not honest" with the United Nations Panel of Experts set up to investigate his alleged dealings with Sierra Leonean rebels, prosecutors told the Special Court for Sierra Leone today during cross-examination of the accused former Liberian president. (AllAfrica)

The case of the two top leaders of FDLR who were arrested in Germany on Tuesday will be re-examined in three months. (AllAfrica)

Home Affairs Deputy Minister, Malusi Gigaba, has reiterated that government will not tolerate any form of violent attack on people from other countries. (AllAfrica)

Chief Mediator, Charles Nqakula, is expected to table South Africa's final report on the Burundi Peace Process at the summit to be held in Arusha, Tanzania on Friday. (AllAfrica)

Lead prosecutor and American lawyer Brenda Hollis Thursday bombarded former president Charles Taylor with series of unstoppable questions regarding alleged atrocities of one of his Generals - General Coocoo Dennis. (AllAfrica)

Following his claims that the US plotted against him for regime change, Mr. Charles Taylor Monday admitted that he maintained links with the US Central Intelligence Agency that he established during the formative stages of his rebellion. (AllAfrica)

Five heads of state, ministers and delegates from across the African continent met in Kampala last week for a special summit to deal with forced displacement in Africa. (AllAfrica)

Shs 500bn spent on army per year but soldiers live in huts, lack toilets, dead bodies kept in patients wards (AllAfrica)

Worried by the recent attacks on Nigerians in the Bakassi Peninsula by Cameroonian gendarmes, the House of Representatives Thursday advised the federal government to formally report to the United Nations Organization (UN), the African Union (AU) and other relevant bodies in a bid to compel Cameroon to abide by the Green Tree Agreement (GTA). (AllAfrica)

The Nigerian Army has disclosed that one Lt. Col. SS Jock, who is presently in court for wrongful court martial and dismissal, was retired and not court martialed. (AllAfrica)

The House of Representatives yesterday expressed displeasure at the budget performance of the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, even as it stated that the ministry has so far not been able to justify the reasons why it was created. (AllAfrica)

FOR the Nigeria Navy (NN), they are nothing but a bunch of impersonators masquerading as naval officers. And this is why it has sworn to deal with these (AllAfrica)

WORRIED by the high rate of violence associated with general election, Delta State Commissioner of Police, Mr Yakubu Alkali, has sought for extra arms and ammunition to meet up with the challenges as the 2011 general election draw nearer. (AllAfrica)

Last October, seven prisoners in Iran escaped a near-certain death sentence. (AllAfrica)

UGANDA is to host a programme in which 2,000 Somalia security personnel will be trained by European Union (EU) soldiers. (AllAfrica)