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- SA troops win biggest battle 1 Dec 2009 12:12 GMT
... For years tens of thousands of HIV-positive military men and women like him have faced ... ban. A staggering 30% of South African soldiers are infected with the Aids virus. This ... the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan and Burundi. It is an important source of revenue ...
- Congo Army Helps Rebels Get Arms, U.N. Finds 25 Nov 2009 05:31 GMT
... gunpoint. Most of the fighting is not soldier versus soldier but soldier versus civilian, and ... mountainsides of Congo, formerly Zaire, to Uganda, Burundi and Rwanda, and eventually to markets in ... running of the movement; the coordination of military and arms-trafficking activities and the management of ...
- Congo Army Helps Rebels Get Arms, U.N. Finds (Today) 25 Nov 2009 07:32 GMT
... gunpoint. Most of the fighting is not soldier versus soldier but soldier versus civilian, and ... mountainsides of Congo, formerly Zaire, to Uganda, Burundi and Rwanda, and eventually to markets in ... running of the movement; the coordination of military and arms-trafficking activities and the management of ...
- AU troops in Somalia go for six months without pay 27 Nov 2009 10:17 GMT
... this could affect the morale of the soldiers to tackle threats from radical Al Shabab ... an interview published yesterday, that Ugandan and Burundian troops in the restive Mogadishu were last ... are having their monthly pay from the army here wired to their accounts regularly. The ...
- Shock As TPDF Soldier Runs Amok, Kills Two 26 Nov 2009 11:14 GMT
... (TPDF) have launched a manhunt for a soldier, who went berserk on Monday, and opened ... Private Rashid Hassan Nawawi, from Zanzibar. The military said their families had been informed. A ... to Kasulu town along the border with Burundi to withdraw his salary from a local ...
- S. African Navy Commits To Fight Against Gender Violence 26 Nov 2009 21:57 GMT
... can make a difference. I think our Military Skills Development (MSD) system, where we take ... take those individuals from society, whether it’s army, air force, whatever, and we educate them ... have gone on peace missions, whether it’s Burundi, DRC, Sudan – doesn’t matter where – ...
- Burundi: Stop Deporting Rwandan Asylum Seekers 2 Dec 2009 05:36 GMT
... Burundi has a moral and legal obligation to receive ... said that large numbers of police and soldiers surrounded the site where 136 Rwandan asylum seekers ...
- BURUNDI: Activists decry rights abuses, culture of impunity 25 Nov 2009 15:30 GMT
... BURUNDI: Activists decry rights abuses, culture of impunity ... "Before FNL disarmed and integrated into the army and the police, any abuse that occurred in the ...
- Absent troops 'failing' Somalia 2 Dec 2009 14:17 GMT
... of only two nations to have contributed troops to the AMISOM force, Wafula Wamunyinyi said ... at the press conference in Kampala where military chiefs and other AU officials are meeting ... in March 2007, currently comprises some 5,000 Burundian and Ugandan troops, well short of the ...
- Burundi ex-rebel to contest poll 30 Nov 2009 10:31 GMT
... Burundi ex-rebel leader Agathon Rwasa to contest poll ... mainly Hutu rebel groups fighting against the army which was dominated by the Tutsi minority. Reuters ...
- Djibouti EASBRIG Military Exercises Pushed Ahead 23 Nov 2009 07:53 GMT
... — The Eastern African Standby Brigade (EASBRIG) military exercises earlier scheduled for between November 16 ... December 7." The Rwandan contingent of 176 soldiers, will be led by Lt. Col. Rugumya ... Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles, Somalia, Burundi, Sudan and Uganda, aim to develop a ...
- SA Military spends a billion rand on peacekeeping 26 Nov 2009 12:53 GMT
... year, the costs of keeping South African troops in the Democratic Republic of the Congo rose to ... more than half a billion rand, in Burundi to 348 million rand, and in the ...
- No peace for the peacekeepers in Somalia 2 Dec 2009 08:12 GMT
... down and the bodies of 18 US soldiers dragged through Mogadishu's streets -- the incident ... peacekeeping force is made up from just Burundi and Uganda and has 5 300 troops, ... due to what one officer involved in military-civilian operations described as their friendly ties with ...
- SA and Norway have a good basis for cooperation - King Harald V 24 Nov 2009 15:55 GMT
... that had experienced the devastating effects of land mines of its people at close hand. Roads ... continue to be engaged in countries like Burundi, Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. "The ...
- UN denies complicity in Congo human rights abuses after leaked report 1 Dec 2009 07:25 GMT
... by the FDLR. The report found that “Military operations have...not succeeded in neutralising the FDLR…have ... throughout the region, particularly through Uganda and Burundi and on to the United Arab Emirates. ... Court for alleged forced enrolment of child soldiers in 2002-2003. MONUC officials have denied Ntaganda’s ...
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