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Gangs continue to fight to take over communities in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince. The neighbourhood of Solino has been under attack since last week with residents fleeing their homes. Gun shots could still be heard in a busy street…

The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to extend the mandate of the Kenya-led multinational force helping to tackle gang violence in Haiti, after brushing off a call from Haiti to start talks on transforming it into a U.N. peacekeeping…

Professor Ibrahim Gambari is to lead ECOWAS Observation Mission for the Senegalese Presidential election fixed for 24th March, this year. The ECOWAS Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace, and Security, Ambassador Abdel-Fatau Musah,…

South African military has said on Thursday that two of its soldiers were killed and three wounded by a mortar bomb in Democratic Republic of Congo, as President Cyril Ramaphosa struck back against opposition claims that they were…

The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Mali, MINUSMA, is poised to complete its withdrawal from the country on Sunday, the United Nations said in a statement. Security experts warn the area could now become the focus of a struggle in the north…

The UN mission in Mali (MINUSMA) officially handed over to the national authorities one of its last camps in a large city in the north of the country, Timbuktu, before the end of its final withdrawal. The MINUSMA sites of Gao and…

Initial results from a presidential poll in DR Congo were expected Friday after shambolic elections spread over several days which the authorities deemed successful. That assessment however is one that many in the country may dispute and…

With 14 votes in favour, United Nations security council voted to terminate the mandate of the UN transition mission in Sudan (UNITAMS). The draft resolution requests the mission to "immediately start", on 4th December, the cessation of…

The UN mission in Mali has announced that it had left its camp 80 kilometres off the city of Gao in the north as part of its complete withdrawal from the terrorism plagued west African country. This closure is the ninth among the twelve…

The European Union on Friday said it would send an observation mission (EOM) to Liberia ahead of the country's general election in October. Josep Borrell, the EU's foreign policy chief, said Andreas Schieder, an Austrian member of the…