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15 December 2008
Armed groups in the DRC have been able to get hold of weapons, ammunition, military equipment and other supplies; the subsequent fighting has forced
nearly 300,000 pe
18 November 2008
Over forty organizations active in Africa warn that the situation in the eastern DRC is at risk of turning into a
humanitarian catastrophe, as the civilian death toll
11 November 2008
More than 250,000 people have so far fled the ongoing violence,
bringing the total number of displaced people in the province to at least 1.2
million.
30 October 2008
The humanitarian and human rights crisis in North Kivu province is worsening rapidly as rebel forces threaten to overwhelm government troops and the UN peacekeeping fo
20 August 2008
After eight alleged members of the Justice and Equality Movement were sentenced to death by Sudan's Anti-Terrorism Special Courts, the government prepares to try anoth
20 June 2008
Victims allegedly abducted by ZANU-PF supporters who, in some instances, were
accompanied by armed men believed to be government agents.
23 May 2008
Amnesty International is gravely concerned by the Sudanese security
forces’ crackdown following the incursion into Khartoum, by an armed
group.
24 April 2008
Ethiopian forces and forces of the Transitional Federal Government of
Somalia (TFG) have been accused of targeting civilians in an attack on
a Mogadishu mosque that
22 April 2008
Central African leaders and the UN have been urged to secure the
release of more than 350 men, women and children thought to have been
abducted by the Lord’s R
03 March 2008
Journalists in Somalia are being killed for reporting the truth about
the country's bloody conflict.
20 February 2008
The Ugandan government has struck a deal with the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) about where their leaders will be tried.
11 February 2008
Thousands of civilians have fled West Darfur’s Sirba region and an
unknown number were killed as the Sudan Armed Forces moved to
re-occupy the area.
08 February 2008
A large army-backed militia force is carrying out attacks on the West Darfur towns of Sirba and Abu Suruj.
07 February 2008
Amnesty International is alarmed at reports of extrajudicial killings of civilians by armed men in Chad.
28 January 2008
Reports from Kenya indicate that up to 70 people have been killed in ethnic killings since Thursday.
