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Murdoc Online (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
Suicide attack in South Waziristan threatens government’s truce with Taliban A suicide bomber struck at Pakistani paramilitary troops in the Taliban-controlled South Waziristan tribal agency on Sunday. The attack threatens a recent truce signed between a local Taliban commander and the military. It’s really hard to believe that a truce with terrorists could go sour.
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The Fourth Rail (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
A suicide bomber struck at Pakistani paramilitary troops in the Taliban-controlled South Waziristan tribal agency. The attack threats are recent truce signed between a local Taliban commander and the military. Eight paramilitary soldiers from the Frontier Corps were killed after a suicide bomber rammed a truck packed with explosives into a checkpoint outside of the Zalai Fort near Wana. The...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
Identification and voter registration in Côte d'Ivoire is progressing without major incident for long-delayed elections, a key element in resolving a political crisis that in 2002 divided the West African country into a rebel-held north and Government-controlled south, the United Nations has reported.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
The United Nations Mission in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) has handed so-called reinsertion kits to some 400 newly demobilized former rebels as part of the effort to resolve a crisis that first divided the West African country into a rebel-held north and Government-controlled south in 2002.
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Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 22/11/2008
The Islamist-dominated Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia which last month signed a peace document with the country’s western-backed Transitional Federal Government on Friday said it is very hopeful that the occupying Ethiopian forces will withdraw from Somalia as soon as possible. The information secretary for the Djibouti-based Alliance Sheikh Ahmed Abdullahi said on Friday during [...]
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Mail & Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
Côte d'Ivoire's political leaders on Monday postponed a post-war presidential election planned for November 30.
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Kansas City Star (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
... splitting the world's No. 1 cocoa producer into a rebel-held north and a government-controlled south, and causing the closure of hundreds of businesses.
The promise of elections is part of a 2007 peace deal signed by Gbagbo and Soro that was intended to finally end a civil war that began in 2002.
The accord also made Soro the country's prime minister and put in motion the demobilization...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
... splitting the world's No. 1 cocoa producer into a rebel-held north and a government-controlled south, and causing the closure of hundreds of businesses.The promise of elections is part of a 2007 peace deal signed by Gbagbo and Soro that was intended to finally end a civil war that began in 2002.The accord also made Soro the country's prime minister and put in motion the demobilization of...
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
... splitting the world's No. 1 cocoa producer into a rebel-held north and a government-controlled south, and causing the closure of hundreds of businesses.The promise of elections is part of a 2007 peace deal signed by Gbagbo and Soro that was intended to finally end a civil war that began in 2002.The accord also made Soro the country's prime minister and put in motion the demobilization of...
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
... splitting the world's No. 1 cocoa producer into a rebel-held north and a government-controlled south, and causing the closure of hundreds of businesses.
The promise of elections is part of a 2007 peace deal signed by Gbagbo and Soro that was intended to finally end a civil war that began in 2002.
The accord also made Soro the country's prime minister and put in motion the demobilization...
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Forbes (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
It takes control of South Africa's biggest mobile-network provider, setting it up for more acquisitions in the region.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
... that despite their involvement in the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the centre, the PDP-controlled South Western states continued to languish in crisis, because those ruling the respective states are not true Afeniferes.Odumakin lamented that Afenifere Renewal Group (ARG) made up of younger elements in Afenifere is currently making moves to repackage true progressives in...
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Lynn Sweet (Free subscription) | 01/11/2008
... knowing her. That's how we got to be friends." Jackson's gospel found its way onto mob-controlled South Side and West Side jukeboxes, thanks in part to gangster Al Capone. In 1954 one of Jackson's jukebox hits was Bob Merrill's "A Rusty Old Halo," which sounds like a bouncy Broadway show tune. Jackson and Studs frequently kidded each other; he teased her that "A Rusty Old Halo" was a "Sweetin'...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 25/10/2008
In Côte d'Ivoire government health officials and aid agencies are launching emergency feeding and special nutritional training in the north to respond to what nutrition experts call "alarming" malnutrition levels.
