United Nations agencies and their partners on Saturday launched a polio immunization campaign targeting 85 million children under the age of five in 19 countries across West and Central Africa.
The Transitional Federal Government of Somalia on Sunday called for the World Food Programme (WFP) to continue its operations in Somalia, just hours after Harakat Al-shabab Mujahideen issued press released suspending whole activities if the agency in southern Somalia.
Somalia's president Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has called on international community to assist his fragile government in restoring peace and stability in the war-torn country.
Ahmed acknowledged that his government has no powers to pacify the country from the powerful insurgents, urging world to urgently help.
Amnesty International and Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre (WARDC) have disclosed that some Nigerians and other Africans are being held without trials in secret maximum security cells in Gambia.
Somalia's president Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed said his country lacks the international support it needs to prevent powerful Al-Qaeda-backed insurgents from overthrowing his fragile government.
Sharif said his government only control pocketful of Mogadishu with the rest including southern Somalia under the hands of Al-Shabaab and Hizbul Islam, the two main insurgent groups.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon used today's fifth anniversary of the peace pact that ended more than 20 years of civil war in Sudan to urge the parties to redouble their efforts towards reconciliation and the successful completion of remaining benchmarks.
The Federal Government, yesterday, reacted to the new air-travelling security measures by the United States, US, Government which puts passengers from Nigeria, among 14 other countries, on extra-security checks if travelling to the US.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon voiced deep gratitude today on hearing of the release of two civilian staff members of the joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping mission in Darfur (UNAMID) after more than 100 days in captivity in the war-torn western flank of Sudan.
The Obama administration's new "incentives and pressure" policy toward S Sudan confirms that it will resort to punishing errant African governments only after diplomatic engagement has failed.
In announcing the results of a lengthy policy review, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said last month that Washington is rejecting the option of isolating Khartoum.
President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga declined to formally invite The Hague to take over the Waki List cases during a private meeting with chief mediator Kofi Annan, the Daily Nation has learnt.
But they agreed that International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo should write to them requesting a meeting in the coming week.
CABINET is deeply divided over the debt and arrears clearance strategy proposal currently under government consideration, as Zimbabwe battles to extricate itself from a huge debt trap.
