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Current Feed ContentLIBERIA: Would you fight again?Female ex-combatants are twice as likely as men to take up weapons again to escape poverty, based on a recent US-funded survey of more than 1,000 former fighters in Liberia. Almost 30 percent of the people surveyed said they were willing to take up arms again to earn a living wage, family and community acceptance, and respect for their tribe or religion. Researchers concluded that ex-fighters at risk of returning to violence can destabilise a country still recovering from war. Surveyors with...BURUNDI: Peace process must be concluded by year-end - mediatorThe mediator in the Burundian peace process, South Africa's security minister Charles Nqakula, has said a lasting peace accord between the government of Burundi and the rebel group that remains outside the peace process must be concluded by year-end. "We got instructions from the African Union to complete the mission by the end of this year," Nqakula told IRIN on 29 August after meeting Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza. The Forces nationales de libération (FNL), led by Agathon Rwasa, is... |
