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SUDAN: Team arrives to probe deadly JIU attack in Yambio

IRIN

Thursday, November 08, 2007

Southern Sudan's government has sent a team to Yambio in Western Equatoria State to investigate a weekend attack on a police station which left...

SUDAN: Veteran Darfur leader blames conflict on marginalisation

IRIN

Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Ahmed Ibrahim Diraige is a man who has experienced a world of change in his home Darfur. Now in his 70s, he has seen the tribal chiefdom system give...

UGANDA: Rebels "ready to make peace" but want ICC charges dropped

IRIN

Sunday, November 04, 2007

For the first time since taking up arms almost 20 years ago, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has sent a peace delegation to Kampala. But the rebels...

SUDAN: A who’s who of the Darfur groups in Sirte

IRIN

Friday, November 02, 2007

The two armed rebel groups active in Darfur when the region erupted into major conflict in 2003 – the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) and the...

UGANDA: Rebel leaders visit expected to boost peace process

IRIN

Friday, November 02, 2007

The first official visit to the Ugandan capital by members of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has raised hopes among people affected by two decades...

CHAD: Peace deal signed to end rebellion

IRIN

Sunday, October 28, 2007

The Chadian government and four of the main rebel groups that had vowed to overthrow the government have signed a peace accord in Libya. Mahamat...

COTE D'IVOIRE: Government, former rebels thwarting arms inspections, UN says

IRIN

Friday, October 26, 2007

Arms inspections in Côte d’Ivoire are being refused “with increasing frequency” by former rebels and the national army and illegal arms trafficking...

BURUNDI: Villagers flee as rebel fighters attack splinter group's position

IRIN

Friday, October 26, 2007

Fighters of Burundi's last active rebel group have for the second time in one week attacked a position occupied by a break-away faction, forcing...

SUDAN: Joint Darfur mission short of air transport units

IRIN

Thursday, October 25, 2007

The African Union/UN hybrid mission in Darfur (UNAMID) has received commitments for most of its infantry requirements but has yet to secure pledges...

CHAD: Unravelling the meaning of latest ex-rebel revolt

IRIN

Monday, October 22, 2007

Scores of former rebels supposedly being integrated into the army have fled their base at the eastern town of Goz Beida, where tens of thousands of...