20120826
Press TV
Somali government forces and Kenyan troops are advancing into southern Somali areas in a bid to clear the al-Shabab militants from the region, Press TV reports.

20120815
AP
MOUNT KENYA, Kenya (AP) — Rescue teams found two dead bodies and searched for at least seven soldiers and airmen on Tuesday after the crashes of three Ugandan helicopter gunships on Kenya's highest mountain, a rugged landscape where leopards and elephants roam.

20120814
AFP
Emergency teams on Monday searched for two Ugandan army helicopters feared to have crashed in thick forest in Kenya while flying to Somalia to support forces fighting insurgents there, officials said.

20120814
AP
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A Kenyan official say that three out of four Ugandan military helicopters that had been dispatched to join African Union forces in Somalia have gone missing in Kenyan airspace.

20120813
AP
GOMA, Congo (AP) — Ibrahim Nsanzimana says he can no longer return to his home in Rwanda for fear of death. The 28-year-old recounted the tortured history of his Rwandan family's entanglement with neighboring Congo, and his latest recruitment by Rwanda to fight in eastern Congo.

20120808
AFP
The presidents of Rwanda and DR Congo began talks Tuesday with regional leaders aiming to tackle a recent wave of unrest in eastern DR Congo and set up a force to neutralise rebel groups there.

20120808
AFP
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday urged Rwanda to help disarm and cut off support for the rebels who have battled government troops in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo since May.

20120730
AFP
DR Congo President Joseph Kabila has openly accused neighbouring Rwanda of being present in the volatile east of the country where rebels are fighting government forces.

20120728
AFP
The Netherlands has suspended part of its development aid to Rwanda because of Kigali's alleged support for rebels in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo, an official said Friday.

20120723
AFP
The United States announced Sunday it will suspend military aid to Rwanda on allegations that the southern African nation is backing the rebellion in the neighboring DR Congo.

20120722
AP
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The U.S. government said Saturday it has cut this year's planned military assistance to Rwanda amid concerns that the government in Kigali is supporting rebel movements in neighboring Congo.

20120715
AFP
Rwanda has refused to take custody of 24 rebels who surrendered to UN peacekeepers in DR Congo, which accuses Kigali of backing an army mutiny in its restive east, a UN spokesman said Saturday.

20120707
AFP
A UN peacekeeper from India was killed in clashes between renegade soldiers and DR Congo troops on the border with Uganda, the United Nations said Friday as the mutineers took a key border post.

20120707
AFP
Refugees from the palm-fringed spice islands of Zanzibar stranded in the war-torn Somali capital Mogadishu prepared to fly home Friday, more than a decade after fleeing political violence.

20120707
AFP
Uganda has arrested a Belgian citizen of Rwandan origin wanted by a court in his adopted homeland for involvement in the 1994 genocide, police said Friday.

20120703
AFP
Kenya will not pull troops out from Somalia until security is restored, Prime Minister Raila Odinga said Monday, a day after 17 people died in the worst attack in a decade that he blamed on Somali Islamists.

20120626
AFP
Rwanda's foreign minister said Monday that "disingenuous" accusations by neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo over involvement in an anti-government mutiny risked stirring up conflict in the region.

20120620
AFP
Massive offshore gas discoveries in East Africa are catapulting the region into a major player in the global energy arena, bringing billions in investment that could transform entire economies.