REBEL LEADER FAILS TO SIGN UGANDAN PEACE DEAL

Mediators are returning to their base after the Ugandan rebel leader, Joseph Kony failed to sign a peace deal. The mediation team is expected to return to the remote area near the Congolese border on Sunday to try once more to have the deal signed.
During the tortuous two-year negotiations, Mr Kony has failed to [...]

UN ENVOY MEETS DR CONGO REBEL LEADER

A UN envoy has met DR Congo’s main rebel leader, in a fresh round of talks aimed at ending months of conflict.
Olusegun Obasanjo met General Laurent Nkunda in the town of Jomba, in the violence-hit east of the country.
Troops loyal to Gen Nkunda have been battling government forces in North Kivu province since August, [...]

UN FEARS DISEASE AMONG REFUGEES AT UGANDA BORDER

The U.N. refugee agency UNHCR has warned that disease could break out among thousands of refugees fleeing the violence in their east Congo villages and pouring across the border into Uganda.
Many refugees crossed a game park full of wild animals to reach the relative safety of the border town of Ishasha, and have had to [...]

GUNMEN ABDUCTED SCOTTISH OIL WORKER IN NIGERIA

A security contractor said the man was working for an oil services firm when he was seized by unidentified gunmen in the city of Port Harcourt. No-one has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping which happened late on Thursday.
More than 200 foreign workers have been abducted during almost three years of growing violence in [...]

SOMALI ISLAMIST LEADER CALLS FOR INTERNATIONAL FORCE

The leader of Somalia’s moderate Islamist opposition called on Saturday for international forces to deploy when Ethiopian troops leave the Horn of Africa nation, to create a chance of reaching a peaceful settlement.
Ethiopia said on Friday it would pull out by the end of the year the thousands of soldiers it sent in to support [...]

ARMY INTERVENES TO END NIGERIA’S POST ELECTION RIOT

Authorities in the central Nigerian city of Jos extended a curfew and ordered the army to shoot on sight on Saturday to stop more clashes between ethnic and religious gangs after fighting killed scores of people.
The governor of Plateau state, of which Jos is the capital, imposed a 24-hour curfew on neighbourhoods of the city [...]

ZIMBABWEANS OFFERED FREE GRAVES FOR VICTIMS OF CHOLERA OUTBREAK

The Zimbabwean capital, Harare, is offering free graves for victims of a cholera outbreak sweeping the southern African state, which a United Nations agency says is only the tip of a health crisis.
Nearly 400 people have died from the disease, preventable and treatable under normal conditions, which has infected more than 9,400 in the country [...]

UGANDA REBEL LEADER ‘TO SIGN PEACE DEAL’

Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army rebel leader Joseph Kony is meeting tribal elders before signing a deal to end Uganda’s 20-year rebellion. The chief mediator, Riek Machar, is waiting for the LRA leader close to the Congolese border. But Mr Kony has failed to show up at previous signing ceremonies, fearing for his safety.
Earlier, [...]