By MATTHEW LEEAssociated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) – Preserving a fragile peace between Sudan and South Sudan, stepping up the hunt for Lord’s Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony and boosting African counter-terrorism efforts in Somalia will top U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s agenda in two days of talks. After arriving in Uganda from [...]
By MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press – 26 minutes ago KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Preserving a fragile peace between Sudan and South Sudan, stepping up the hunt for Lord’s Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony and boosting African counter-terrorism efforts in Somalia will top U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s agenda in two days of talks. [...]
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council extended on Tuesday the mandate of the U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force in Sudan‘s conflict-torn western Darfur region, though Khartoum criticized the move for urging the troops to help capture a fugitive Ugandan warlord. The 15-nation council passed a British-drafted resolution extending the peacekeepers’ mandate for another 12 [...]
By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS | Tue Jul 31, 2012 6:17pm BST UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council extended on Tuesday the mandate of the U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force in Sudan‘s conflict-torn western Darfur region, though Khartoum criticized the move for urging the troops to help capture a fugitive Ugandan warlord. The 15-nation [...]
By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS | Tue Jul 31, 2012 1:18pm EDT UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council extended on Tuesday the mandate of the U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force in Sudan‘s conflict-torn western Darfur region, though Khartoum criticized the move for urging the troops to help capture a fugitive Ugandan warlord. The 15-nation [...]
(CNN) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will this week make her first visit to South Sudan, a nation barely one year old that is locked in a bitter dispute with its northern neighbor, as part of a six-country tour of Africa. Clinton sets off Tuesday on the 11-day trip, which is intended to [...]
Abou Moussa, UN special representative for Central Africa, said that all four countries had committed to provide the troops. “The issue is the resources to maintain them.” Kony, who launched his rebellion in Uganda two decades ago, is now said to have between 300 and 500 troops and about half of these are children or [...]
Khartoum — On Wednesday the Sudanese government accused South Sudan of entering Kafen Dabi, Kafiye Kenji and Garya in Darfur, bordering Bahr El Arab. Foreign Affairs spokesman El Obeid Ahmed Marawih told reporters in Khartoum that the Sudan Peoples Liberation Army occupied Garya in Bahr El Arab north of the 1956 border and moved into [...]
JUBA (Reuters) – South Sudan, embroiled in a border dispute with its northern neighbour Sudan, said on Sunday at least 21 people died in two days of clashes between the South’s army and Khartoum-backed rebels in the South’s oil-producing Upper Nile state. The clash, which erupted on Friday and continued into the next day, took [...]
By DONNA CASSATAAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) – Joseph Kony’s days are numbered as offers of amnesty have produced better intelligence on the brutal African warlord’s whereabouts, a top senator said Wednesday as lawmakers signaled they will push for expanding the State Department‘s rewards for justice program to target the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army. [...]
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