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Current Feed ContentAFRICA: Call to ban cluster bombsArchbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu called cluster munitions "an abomination whose manufacture and use should not be tolerated by any government", amid calls for African countries to do more to ensure the weapons are banned. "Many countries in Africa, including Uganda, have experienced wars and conflicts over the last 30 years," the UN Resident Representative in Uganda, Theophane Nikyema, said in an address to the two-day regional conference in Kampala, which began on 29 September. "As a result,...MAURITANIA: Terrorist attack hits already-fragile economyAlleged terrorist attacks on 14 September in Tourine in the northeast killed 11 soldiers and their civilian guide, confirmed Mauritania’s newly-installed defence ministry on 20 September. Analysts say the economy can ill-afford this additional blow in the face of donor sanction threats. The European Union (EU), US government and World Bank have suspended, or threaten to cut, more than US$500 million in non-humanitarian aid in condemnation of the 6 August military takeover and continued...SWAZILAND: Bomb blast kills twoTwo men were killed and a third injured after a bomb exploded on 21 September close to King Mswati III's Lozitha palace, 25kms east of the Swazi capital, Mbabane. Police suspect that the bomb exploded prematurely as it was placed at a road bridge by the perpetrators. Police said the two men killed were a Swazi national and a man said to be Indian. The man who survived the blast was a 44-year-old South African national and was taken in to police custody and faces charges of treason - a capital...FIFA re-assures Gambia -After Algeria terror threatsFootball’s world governing body, FIFA, has acknowledged the receipt of Gambia Football Association’s notification letter on the terror threats made to the Scorpions by some Algerian players, and has reassured the national Football Association that all measures would be taken to ensure the safety of Gambian delegation in Algeria. During Scorpions1-0 win over the Desert Foxes in the combined 2010 World and Nations Cup qualifier last weekend in Banjul, some Algerian players threatened to bomb...Fahmo Aden: "I would do anything to see my boy normal again"It was like anyother day in the life of Fahmo Aden, a 34-year-old mother and small trader,until she was told her oldest son had been killed in an explosion. "I was in the market when a friend called me totell me she had heard that Abdiaziz [her 13-year-old son] was caught up in anexplosion. I had sent him to school earlier before I left for the market." Abdiaziz Abdulle was seriously injured when aremote-controlled bomb that killed some security guards of former PrimeMinister Ali Gedi...SOUTH AFRICA-ZAMBIA: Divisions surface on the proposed cluster munitions banSouth Africa cut a lone figure in Zambia's tourist capital of Livingstone as the only African country not to endorse a global ban on the use of all cluster munitions. Africa's economic powerhouse and the continent's leading arms producer was the odd one out following a two day meeting of 39 African countries, which on 1 April, endorsed the Livingstone Declaration calling for the eradication of all cluster munitions. Cluster munitions were first used by the former Soviet Union during the...SOMALIA: Kismayo's only hospital closes as aid workers killedServices at the only hospital in Somalia's coastal city of Kismayo, 500km south of the capital Mogadishu, stopped on 29 January, a day after four people - including two foreign aid workers - were killed in a blast, local sources told IRIN. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF-Holland) took over running the hospital in September 2007, after it had been abandoned by MSF-Belgium in 2001 due to insecurity. Thousands of demonstrators also took to Kismayo streets to protest at the killing of the two...Police Station in Algeria hit by bombingA police station has been hit by a bomb in Nacria, which is at the north of Algeria and is about 50 km east of the Algerian capital Algiers. According to reports at least 3 people are dead and at several are injured. Full details have not yet been released. The bomb went off at about 0600 UTC (7 AM local time) today. It is currently not clear whether the bombing was caused by a car bomb or a suicide attack. The bombing, although less serious then the December bombings which killed 40 people, is...Police Station in Algeria hit by bombingA police station has been hit by a bomb in Nacria, which is at the north of Algeria and is about 50 km east of the Algerian capital Algiers. According to reports at least 3 people are dead and at several are injured. Full details have not yet been released. The bomb went off at about 0600 UTC (7 AM local time) today. It is currently not clear whether the bombing was caused by a car bomb or a suicide attack. The bombing, although less serious then the December bombings which killed 40 people, is...Bombs kill scores in AlgiersTwo bombs have exploded in Algiers, the capital of Algeria, killing at least 47 people, most of which were children on their way to school. The explosion took place in the centre of the city, which is near the constitutional court. The second was near the United Nations offices in the Hydra neighborhood. At least 30 were killed in the first blast, with 15 killed in the second. Both blasts occurred at least 10 minutes apart from each other. No group has yet to claim responsibility for the... |
