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The Security Council today extended and expanded the arms embargo and related sanctions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which have been in place since 2003, for another year. (AllAfrica)

The ongoing case of Congolese rebel leader Laurent Nkunda will come before Rwanda's Supreme Court, Mr Nkunda's lawyer said Tuesday. (AllAfrica)

A senior United Nations peacekeeping official today voiced "extreme" concern over the fate of two abducted staff members of the joint UN-African Union mission in Darfur (UNAMID), warning that the security situation on the war-ravaged western flank of Sudan continues to be unstable. (AllAfrica)

Increased banditry, kidnappings of relief workers and attacks on humanitarian compounds in eastern Chad are threatening crucial aid for nearly 100,000 people, many of them refugees or internally displaced persons (IDP), the United Nations reported today. (AllAfrica)

Somali pirates have reportedly seized a Greek-owned oil tanker and its 28 crewmembers more than 1000 kilometers off the coast of Somalia. (AllAfrica)

United Nations peacekeepers planted nearly 600 trees in a botanical garden in Côte d'Ivoire over the weekend, a small but symbolic step in a project to combat climate change that has already surpassed its target of 7 billion trees - one for every person in the world. (AllAfrica)

President Mugabe yesterday met the visiting South African mediation team to the inter-party political talks amid revelations that more "outstanding issues" have arisen to the Global Political Agreement. (AllAfrica)

The president of the Transitional Federal Government Sharif Sheik Ahmed has Tuesday visited several military bases of the government troops in south of the Somali capital Mogadishu. (AllAfrica)

The cabinet of ministers of the Transitional Federal Government approved a Federal Constitution during a meeting in Mogadishu on Sunday. (AllAfrica)

The amnesty issued to perpetrators of last year's post-election violence to surrender their weapons has been extended. (AllAfrica)

The statement by Sudan's U.N. Ambassador, Abdalmahmoud Abdalhaleem, in reaction to our new report demonstrates the dangerous self-constructed reality in which the National Congress Party (NCP) continues to live. We are concerned by the Ambassador’s statements which demonstrate Khartoum’s continued efforts to downplay the dire situation on the ground in Sudan, undermine existing negotiations, and sidestep its primary responsibility for this state of affairs. (AllAfrica)

The ease with which the President went to pray in public, the lack of any security alert, the release of an ex-Lieutenant who was convicted of concealment of treason, the false alarms of countless number of people being arrested only for Foroyaa to discover them in their homes or work places, makes us to wonder what is really the reason for arresting the ex-Chief of Defence Staff. (AllAfrica)

The authorities on Thursday evening released ex-Lieutenant Momodou Alieu Bah of the Gambia Armed Forces from the Maximum Security Wing at Mile Two Central Prison. (AllAfrica)

The officials of Darawish troops of the transitional government have Tuesday said that the killing sentence of the military court against one of Darawish soldiers may decrease the other killings in Mogadishu. (AllAfrica)

Genocide-accused former Rwandan Deputy Governor, Dominique Ntawukulilyayo, will testify for his own defence on December 8, 2009. (AllAfrica)

A soldier has highlighted the incidence of torture within the UPDF in a case against a senior officer accused of maiming "at least 10 soldiers". (AllAfrica)

One of Botswana's first female soldiers, Second Lieutenant Atamelang Koboyankwe says she would not swap her army uniform for anything else. (AllAfrica)

THE All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Anambra State has faulted the statement credited to the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2010 governorship election in the state, Professor Chukwuma Soludo over the security situation in the state, that the state needs a first class brain to govern it, describing such positions as infantile. (AllAfrica)

THE Zimbabwe National Army has managed to carry out all its training tasks under tough economic conditions as result of sanctions imposed on the country to effect illegal regime change, a senior ZNA officer has said. (AllAfrica)

Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Friday declared that the conditions now exist "for the development and sustainable professionalisation" of the Mozambican armed forces (FADM). (AllAfrica)

The Security Council today renewed for another 12 months the authorization for States and regional organizations fighting piracy off the Somali coast to enter the strife-torn country's territorial waters and "undertake all necessary measures that are appropriate in Somalia" provide they have the transitional government's consent. (AllAfrica)

OIL producing communities in Edo State have condemned what they described as deliberate exclusion of their people from the post-amnesty committee set up by the federal government. (AllAfrica)

A top African Union troop commander in Somalia revealed that they have contact with Somalia's most powerful insurgent group Al-Shabaab, which is waging war against the weak government and peacekeeping troops in the capital Mogadishu. (AllAfrica)

The two warring sides of the Islamists and TFG have claimed victory over heavy fighting that started early on Tuesday morning at parts of Warshadaha Street in the Somali capital Mogadishu, officials told Shabelle radio. (AllAfrica)

THE Field Artillery Brigade for the western region was launched on Saturday at the 2nd Division headquarters in Mbarara. (AllAfrica)

At least one civilian was killed and another wounded after clash between Somali militias started at Torotorow village in southern Somalia, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Monday. (AllAfrica)

THE family of the late Maj. Gen. James Kazini has hired a lawyer to monitor court proceedings in the case against Lydia Draru, the key suspect. (AllAfrica)

"Blessed are the peacemakers" - Luke 2:14; Mark 2:1-11 (AllAfrica)

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)