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  • A 60,000km Haj pilgrimage 28 Nov 2009 00:32 GMT
    ... border and divided by US and Pakistani soldiers, police and Taliban. “There are guys with ... Abdool gained access to a marketplace for weapons. “The market sold US rifles, uniforms, night ... started riffing on his opinions of the war in Afghanistan and explaining how the gun ...

  • Continent Looks Beyond 'War On Terror' 27 Nov 2009 12:53 GMT
    ... within less than a week the Malian army launched its first major operations against AQIM ... persuading many fighters to lay down their weapons. The establishment of a democratic system in ... high profile, despite the calls to wage "war on terror" that have been so prominent ...

  • Sudan's Nuba: The next Darfur? 27 Nov 2009 13:34 GMT
    ... a smile. The scattered settlements of green farms and thatch huts were a key base ... volatile region is already awash with automatic weapons, and fears are growing the region requires ... we could stand alone," said former rebel soldier Abdulaziz Kuwa, who grows groundnuts and sorghum ...

  • SA v England: As it happened 27 Nov 2009 22:58 GMT
    ... Relive all the action as South Africa thrashed ... the crease and he cannot free his arms until the final ball and he retains the ... brought on by Smith to deliver some military medium. Just four runs come off McLaren's ...

  • Background Notes : Eritrea (11/09) 27 Nov 2009 19:15 GMT
    ... Nov 27, 2009 (STATE DEPARTMENT RELEASE/ContentWorks via COMTEX) -- ... administration after the Italian surrender in World War II. In 1952, a UN resolution federating ... year, however, a massive airlift of Soviet arms to Ethiopia enabled the Ethiopian Army to regain ...

  • Red Cross Red Crescent issues universal call to action to tackle today's humanitarian challenges 27 Nov 2009 04:30 GMT
    ... climate change adaptation. Climate change along with war, violence and poverty have forced tens of ... commitment to tackling the devastating impact of weapons that keep on killing long after hostilities ... human cost of the uncontrolled availability of arms, including through regulating transfers of all conventional arms ...

  • Africa's new threat: Sudan at flash point 25 Nov 2009 00:15 GMT
    ... of plunging into yet another north/south civil war. International failure to guarantee the key provisions ... since China is the primary supplier of weapons that clearly violate the current UN arms embargo on Darfur. should do more to squeeze ...

  • Global warming increases risk of civil war in Africa, Stanford researchers say 23 Nov 2009 21:31 GMT
    ... The link between climate change and the incidents of civil war in Africa is clear and strong, says ... disadvantaged become more likely to take up arms." Farmers and pastoralists in a maize growing regions ...

  • Congo Army Helps Rebels Get Arms, U.N. Finds (Today) 25 Nov 2009 07:32 GMT
    ... Congo Army Helps Rebels Get Arms, U.N. Finds By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, The New ... that the Congolese Army continues to funnel weapons to rebel groups that are smuggling millions ... gunpoint. Most of the fighting is not soldier versus soldier but soldier versus civilian, and ...

  • LRA's Joseph Kony to seek protection from Sudan army 22 Nov 2009 21:34 GMT
    ... offensive started, Kony selected him and 71 soldiers and gave them orders: to attack Faradje ... one. Supplies Asked where they got their weapons, ammunition and new uniforms from, Arop said ... launchers. There are still a lot of arms caches the UPDF has not yet unearthed.” ...

  • Rebel Leader to Seek Protection From Sudan Army 23 Nov 2009 06:13 GMT
    ... offensive started, Kony selected him and 71 soldiers and gave them orders: to attack Faradje ... by one. Asked where they got their weapons, ammunition and new uniforms from, Arop said ... launchers. There are still a lot of arms caches the UPDF has not yet unearthed." ...

  • Congo Army Helps Rebels Get Arms, U.N. Finds 25 Nov 2009 05:31 GMT
    ... that the Congolese Army continues to funnel weapons to rebel groups that are smuggling millions ... eastern with tentacles touching Spanish charities, Ukrainian arms dealers, corrupt African officials and even secretive ... gunpoint. Most of the fighting is not soldier versus soldier but soldier versus civilian, and ...

  • Land grabs: Africa's new 'resource curse'? 26 Nov 2009 20:34 GMT
    ... is synchronised with the corresponding rise in arms sales, exporting weaponry to regions rich in finite oil resources, ... and broadly spanning ‘global traumas’ from the war in Iraq, to the expanding presence of ...

  • Kenya Recruits Somali Refugees to Fight Islamists Back Home in Somalia 24 Nov 2009 19:33 GMT
    ... the AMISOM base in Mogadishu, killing 21 people. The Obama administration also has shipped arms to the transitional government's beleaguered soldiers, obtaining a UN exemption from an international ban on weapons sales to Somalia, despite questions as to how the weapons are being used and ...

  • 2 Congo warlords plead innocent to war crimes 24 Nov 2009 16:50 GMT
    ... – Two Congolese militia leaders sent child soldiers and other fighters to wipe out a ... to three crimes against humanity and seven war crimes, including murder, rape, sexual enslavement and ... soldiers and older fighters armed with automatic weapons, machetes and spears to destroy the village ...


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