Contributor ReportsPeace mediator calls for truce in Darfur
Source: Sudan Tribune
Khartoum :: Sudan | updated Mon Nov 30 19:44:42 -0800 2009 | travel-news
The Joint Chief Mediator for Darfur peace process urged today all the parties to the six-year conflict to agree to a cessation of hostilities and to work for the improvement of security on the ground. Djibril Yipènè Bassolé, Joint African...
ROAR: Military police will defend soldiers from soldiers
Source: Russia Today
Lon :: Burkina Faso | updated Tue Dec 01 04:55:54 -0800 2009 | travel-news
Military police will defend soldiers from soldiers Published 01 December, 2009, 15:34 Russia’s Defense Minister is expected to sign an order setting up military police in the armed forces. MPs may start working in 2010 after all organizational issues are...
At least 73 dead on illegal ferry in Congo
Source: United Press International
Kinshasa :: Congo (Dem. Rep.) | updated Sat Nov 28 14:07:34 -0800 2009 | travel-news
Democratic Republic of Congo, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- At least 73 people died when an improvised ferry sank in bad weather on a lake in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, officials say. Dominique Lutula, head of the Red Cross...
10 die in gruesome bus accident
Source: Sowetan
Johannesburg :: South Africa | updated Fri Nov 27 03:34:28 -0800 2009 | travel-news
A total of 36 patients were treated. “Three were in a serious condition, 10 had less serious injuries and 23 were treated for minor injuries,” paramedics said. Netcare 911 spokesman, Chris Botha, who had been on the scene earlier, said...
Police question 8 militiamen deployed near massacre site
Source: Inquirer.net
Pro :: Burkina Faso | updated Fri Nov 27 02:21:09 -0800 2009 | travel-news
Velasquez, however, said police did not arrest the militiamen as they are not being considered as suspects. �They are now under the custody of their military unit,� he said in an interview with reporters in Camp Crame. �They just have...
Town 'empty' after CAR rebel raid
Source: BBC
Ndélé :: Central African Republic | updated Fri Nov 27 02:08:48 -0800 2009 | travel-news
Mr Munie said the fighting was not accompanied by serious looting or general mayhem and the military is now patrolling the town. Our correspondent says the events in Ndele offer another bleak reminder of the CAR's fragility...The movement is much...
Darfur gunmen say targeting France not aid workers
Source: Sudan Tribune
Khartoum :: Sudan | updated Thu Nov 26 22:12:52 -0800 2009 | travel-news
An armed group from the restive region of Darfur said today they are targeting French aid workers to force French government to change its policy. A Darfur based gunmen kidnapped two French aid workers on Sunday evening in the northeast...
Hit-run victim identified
Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Mogadishu :: Somalia | updated Wed Nov 25 21:26:28 -0800 2009 | travel-news
Taser, after a video of the altercation with police came to light. A man arrested Monday in connection with a mass murder in Surrey, B.C., had just won a huge poker jackpot.
UN's Congo policies 'must change'
Source: BBC
Brazzaville :: Congo | updated Wed Nov 25 17:02:28 -0800 2009 | travel-news
The report that was leaked today shows the huge diaspora networks that assist in money-laundering, in arms-trafficking, in the extraction of minerals and in the sale of those minerals. "Until you cut off that side of it, I don't think...
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Source: Sudan Tribune
Jūbā :: Sudan | updated Wed Nov 25 14:04:59 -0800 2009 | travel-news
The Sudanese first vice president Salva Kiir survived an accident yesterday that was caused by the rupture in one of the tires on the plane he and his delegations were boarding, Ugandan media reported. However the foul play was ruled...
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