20110617 Reuters ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Eritrea has rejected Ethiopian claims it trained the rebels who plotted to carry out bombings during an African Union summit in Addis Ababa in February.
20110512 Reuters NAIROBI (Reuters) - Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye flew home on Thursday, a day after being barred from making the journey, and hours before President Yoweri Museveni was due to be sworn into a fourth term.
Nairobi — As the world celebrated the killing of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan Sunday by US Special Forces, East Africa stared at a possible new political nightmare.
STUTTGART, Germany (Reuters) - Two alleged Rwandan rebel leaders accused of ordering massacres and mass rape in the Democratic Republic of Congo went on trial in Germany on Wednesday.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya has vowed to bolster Somalia's fight against al Qaeda-linked insurgents along its border with the Horn of Africa country, where troops from both sides are battling the rebels, the Somali prime minister said.
Uganda and Burundi will each add 2,000 peacekeepers in Somalia by mid this year to raise the number from 8,000 to 12,000, an increment approved by the UN Security Council in December last year.
Addis Ababa — Ethiopia has threatened to topple Eritrea's regime should the international community fail to enforce sanctions placed on the country in 2009.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Burundi has sent 1,000 more troops to the African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia taking its total there to 4,400, its army spokesman said on Saturday.
20110203 Xinhua KINSHASA, March 2 (Xinhua) -- The Ugandan rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has killed at least 35 people in the northeastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) since the beginning of the year, the UN refugee agency.
20110203 Xinhua NAIROBI, March 3 (Xinhua) -- Kenya's humanitarian agency has registered more than 11,000 refugees from neighboring Somalia as fighting between the Horn of Africa nation's militant group and government forces rages, the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) told Xinhua Thursday.
