Latest West Africa Security News
- Fact Sheet: Advancing the Freedom Agenda 24 Jul 2008 17:12 GMT
... the past seven years, we expanded the African Growth and Opportunity Act, which is spreading ... seven years, we have seen citizens in Afghanistan and Iraq emerge from tyranny to establish ... democracy taken by nations such as Kuwait, Liberia, Mauritania, Morocco, and Pakistan. ...
- Remarks by the President on the Freedom Agenda 24 Jul 2008 17:12 GMT
... the 11th attacks. We've removed regimes in Afghanistan and Iraq that threatened our citizens and ... taken by nations such as Kuwait and Liberia, Mauritania and Morocco, and Pakistan. It's in ... the past seven years, we expanded the African Growth and Opportunity Act, which is spreading ...
- Bashir offers peace, aid in defiant Darfur tour 24 Jul 2008 10:33 GMT
... in Darfur. Late on Tuesday the joint UN-African Union peacekeeping force (Unamid) in Darfur said ... African Union will ask the United Nations Security Council to suspend action for a year on ... President Omar al-Bashir on Darfur genocide charges, Nigeria's foreign affairs minister said on Monday. The ...
- AU urges UN to take over Somalia 24 Jul 2008 10:08 GMT
... New York - The African Union said on Wednesday it was incapable of ... was incapable of stabilising the situation in Somalia and urged the United Nations take over ... AMISOM peacekeepers were Uganda and Burundi, though Nigeria and others had offered troops. Lamamra said ...
- Security Council may consider suspending ICC charges 24 Jul 2008 07:54 GMT
... response to an expected request by the African Union (AU) for it to intervene and ... of the ICC statute "does give the Security Council of the United Nations certain political responsibilities. ... Council on Monday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Nigeria's Foreign Minister Ojo Maduekwe said that the ...
- War crimes tribunals gain acceptance 24 Jul 2008 06:30 GMT
... AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- The former president of Liberia is on trial. A vice president of ... President Charles Taylor for his role in West Africa's upheavals. The threat of prosecution also is ...
- Int'l Court indicts Sudan's leader with genocide 24 Jul 2008 04:29 GMT
... made up of three judges from Brazil, Ghana and Latvia. Previous indictments have been issued ... former Serbian leader Slobadan Milosevic and former Liberian President Charles Taylor. In seeking the warrant, ... of the Brooklyn-based National Religious Leaders of African Ancestry Concerned for Darfur. “Hopefully this will ...
- Zimbabwe sanctions resolution fails 24 Jul 2008 04:29 GMT
... was not adopted by the 15-member UN Security Council on July 11. Permanent Security Council members ... and Russia vetoed the text with South Africa, Libya and Vietnam voting against the resolution. ... States, the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Croatia, Burkina Faso, Costa Rico, Italy and Panama—the necessary ...
- AU to seek delay in al-Bashir indictment 24 Jul 2008 04:27 GMT
... Images) ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) - The African Union is warning that a prosecutor's request ... The AU plans to ask the U.N. Security Council to wait a year before considering the ... The U.N. estimates 300,000 people have died. Nigeria's foreign affairs minister, who spoke after an ...
- Arab-Israeli peace process looms large at Paris summit A new forum for Euro-Mediterranean cooperation 24 Jul 2008 04:27 GMT
... the European Union with states from North Africa, the Balkans and Arab states with Israel to foster ... offices he said. Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki said his delegation “categorically opposed” wording in ... diplomatic means, namely through the implementation of Security Council Resolution 1707, but if such means fail, ...
- Force Commander Says Darfur is War Zone 24 Jul 2008 04:25 GMT
... to end but getting worse, the force's Nigerian Commander says. "When I first listened to ... find 7 men from Rwanda, Uganda and Ghana dead, with 22 wounded from a deadly ... mandate to include soldiers from other non African countries and a new debate about the ...
- Sudan: Force Commander Says Darfur is War Zone 24 Jul 2008 04:25 GMT
... to end but getting worse, the force's Nigerian Commander says. "When I first listened to ... find 7 men from Rwanda, Uganda and Ghana dead, with 22 wounded from a deadly ... mandate to include soldiers from other non African countries and a new debate about the ...
- Despite complaints, international justice is advancing 24 Jul 2008 00:35 GMT
... head of state to be indicted was Liberian President Charles Taylor. Although the prosecutor for ... Taylor was attending a peace conference in Ghana that was intended to settle the civil ... Just a week before the indictment, seven African Union and United Nations peacekeepers were killed ...
- Modern war crimes are increasingly being tried 24 Jul 2008 00:27 GMT
... Now, the ex-president of Liberia is on trial. A vice president of ... for the State Department when the UN Security Council created the Yugoslav tribunal. He says most ... step." Politics are also at work in Africa. Leaders on the continent barely criticized the ...
- AU says troops in Somalia need help, wants UN force 23 Jul 2008 22:27 GMT
... UNITED NATIONS, July 23 (Reuters) - The African Union said on Wednesday it was incapable of ... was incapable of stabilizing the situation in Somalia and urged the United Nations take over ... AMISOM peacekeepers are Uganda and Burundi, though Nigeria and others have offered troops. Lamamra said ...
- AU says troops in Somalia need help, wants U.N. force 23 Jul 2008 20:50 GMT
... UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The African Union said on Wednesday it was incapable of ... was incapable of stabilizing the situation in Somalia and urged the United Nations take over ... AMISOM peacekeepers are Uganda and Burundi, though Nigeria and others have offered troops. Lamamra said ...
- Beijing denies Australian report that Mugabe supporters engaging in illicit trade with China 23 Jul 2008 20:36 GMT
... the report in The Age newspaper «purely malicious rumors. «Some media often fabricate fictitious news, ... fabricate fictitious news, attacking China's relations with African countries,» Liu said in a statement posted on ... this month, China vetoed a U.S.-sponsored U.N. Security Council resolution that would have imposed sanctions on ...
- China denies report on Zim illicit trade 23 Jul 2008 20:30 GMT
... the report in The Age newspaper "purely malicious rumours". "Some media often fabricate fictitious news, ... fabricate fictitious news, attacking China's relations with African countries," Liu said in a statement posted on ... this month, China vetoed a US-sponsored UN Security Council resolution that would have imposed sanctions on ...
- China denies Zim allegations 23 Jul 2008 20:20 GMT
... the report in The Age newspaper "purely malicious rumors." "Some media often fabricate fictitious news, ... fabricate fictitious news, attacking China's relations with African countries," Liu said in a statement posted on ... this month, China vetoed a US-sponsored U.N. Security Council resolution that would have imposed sanctions on ...
- Is democracy a security issue? 23 Jul 2008 17:51 GMT
... of Zimbabwe and some failed countries in Africa. In fact, there are no authoritarian states, ... authorities banned Renaissance Party led by Rached Ghannouchi, on the grounds of threatening Tunisian national security, despite the fact that it was a ...
- French director shocks UN with disturbing film on child soldiers 23 Jul 2008 16:33 GMT
... Children and Armed Conflict, Special Court for Sierra Leone prosecutor Steven Rapp and France’s UN Ambassador ... followed by a panel discussion at which Liberia’s UN Ambassador Milton Nathaniel Barnes urged the ... shoot the movie there after visiting the west-African country in 2004, a year after the ...
- » 'SA in relegation zone' 23 Jul 2008 15:28 GMT
... Clem Sunter, said on Wednesday that South Africa is in the "relegation zone" of the world's premier ... he noted. He also pointed out that Nigeria desperately wants to take over South Africa's ... turns its back and you become a Somalia or Iraq. "Zimbabwe has been in this ...
- Don't neglect foreign corps 23 Jul 2008 15:27 GMT
... This increasingly deals DFAT out of the national security debate. Increasingly our policy expert staff are ... Brazil, Chile and Mexico. In all of Africa we have just four small posts: Egypt, Ghana, South Africa, Zimbabwe. We are a long way from ...
- Greg Sheridan: Don't neglect foreign corps 23 Jul 2008 14:53 GMT
... This increasingly deals DFAT out of the national security debate. Increasingly our policy expert staff are ... Brazil, Chile and Mexico. In all of Africa we have just four small posts: Egypt, Ghana, South Africa, Zimbabwe. We are a long way from ...
- Liberia: Showered With Enthusiasm, Liberia's President-Elect Receives High-Level Reception in Washington 23 Jul 2008 12:36 GMT
... (helped by some polls and a helicopter), Africa's first female elected president faces daunting challenges. ... launched her campaign to become president of Liberia, conventional wisdom rated her chances as slim to ... she met at the White House with National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley and his Africa deputy, ...
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