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Sudan: Kidnapped Red Cross worker freed
Sudan Security Forces have released a Red Cross aid worker, who was held in Darfur for 147 days, security boss said on Thursday. - Security forces in Darfur succeeded in releasing Gauthier Lefevre from the kidnappers without battle. Head security official in Darfur, West Sudan, Abu Gurun told Reuters that a group of forces had watched the kidnappers until they got Lefevre.
"We were intent that there be no exchange of fire so that we could guarantee his safety," he added.
One of the kidnappers was arrested and now is in custody. The chief was stated as saying "We will arrest these people and we will send them to court."
ICRC spokesman Saleh Dabbakeh also confirmed the release withou…Sudan: Two hanged for murder
Two Sudanese men were executed for killing four oil workers, two of them were Chinese, State media said on Wednesday. - The two people were convicted for killing the workers and looting their vehicle in 2004 at Heglig in Kordofan state in south Sudan, the official news agency SUNA reported.
The dead workers are working with a Chinese petroleum company at Hejilij area, the agency said but did not publish further details about the execution.
The two men were hanged at the federal prison in El Obeid, the main city in Kordofan state, north Sudan.
In this March, unknown gunmen kidnapped nine Chinese oil workers from South Kordofan and later killed four of them after a failed rescue attem…Kenya: UK to re-fund free education
The United Kingdom is to re--fund free primary education programme in Kenya via non-governmental organisations and will release $20 million, officials said. - The payment of free primary education, which was stopped after officials were accused of stealing £880,000, is now expected to start in next month.
The British government rejected to pay the finance through the Kenya government until corruption allegations are investigated.
“We’ll be looking at a number of different methods directly to schools, paying for textbooks, helping the poor and most vulnerable children,” Alistair Fernie, the head of the U.K.’s department for International Development in Kenya sai…Somalia: 20 killed in clash over water, land
Clashes between two clans in central Somalia have killed at least 20 people and wounded dozens others in Mudug region of central Somalia, witnesses said on Monday. - The two brotherhood clans have been battling over land and water in recent weeks in Mudug and the latest fight happened in a village some 110 km northeast of Dhusamareeb, regional capital of Galgadud.
Osman Ali a resident in Dhusomareeb told AfricaNews by phone that the latest clash which erupted late on Saturday killed at least 20 people. “Those dead are most of the fighters from two clans.” He added that 13 fighters were also wounded in the battle.
AFP quoted a Hawiye elder as saying "The heaviest fighting o…Uganda accuse Sudan of abhorring rebels
Uganda has alleged that the rebel leader of the Lord's Resistance Army Joseph Kony who is wanted for war crimes may be in war-torn Darfur of west Sudan. - Uganda president Yoweri Museveni said: "Our military said that the small group in which Kony was had disappeared into Darfur. That is what they told me."
Since 2008, LRA leader Kony has been on the run after regional States launched a chase to nab him after he rejected to sign a peace deal with Uganda. It is also alleged that his fighters have been moving in the forests of south Sudan, north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic (CAR).
Sudan is suspected to be supporting the LRA.
“If the Su…Somalia: EU arrest 29 pirates
A French warship which forms part of EU anti-piracy mission off the Somali coast has arrested 22 suspected pirates, France Defence ministry said. The statement added that the navy held pirates from six separate boats in the Indian Ocean. - 11 Somali pirates who were using a mother boat and two accompanying skiffs were seized by French navy while they were trying to attack French oceanographic vessel.
The ministry said the pirates were sailing about 180 nautical miles east of Mogadishu.
Another three suspected pirate boats were held about 90 nautical miles to the south. Another statement from the ministry said the pirates were being held on board the Nivose.
Another seven Somali pira…Floods kill six people in Kenya
Floods in Kenya killed at least six people and left dozens missing. The floods which hit parts of Kenya also washed more then 200 cattle and left hundreds of people homeless, Police said. The country's Red Cross said the flood which hit Nakuru have drowned three people while other three were washed away by floods in Marsabit. - "Those killed in Marsabit are young children who were washed away as they played in an open field in Dukana area”, AFP news agency quoted a police officer.
"We have received reports of people missing and over 2,000 cattle heads washed away. People have been advised to move to higher grounds because we don't know how soon the rains will go away," the police of…Sudan: 30 killed in tribal clash
At least 30 people were killed in Sudan after clashes between two rival tribes in the volatile southern region, witnesses said. - Deputy state governor David Noc Marial has said clashes began after armed men from the Dinka tribe's Atuot and Ciek clans clashed in south Sudan's remote area over the weekend.
The deputy governor added "There is a long story of cattle raiding between the two, of attacks and counter-attacks. But it became open war”.
Clashes between rival tribes happen repeatedly in south Sudan because of disagreements over natural resources.
The civil war in Sudan has killed two million people and forced four million to flee their homes and caused tribes clashes be…U.K bans Somali Islamists
The British government will ban Somali Islamist group of Al-Shabaab which pledged loyalty to Al-Qaeda network and noticed an international holy war last month, the British Interior Ministry said on Monday. - The British Home Office announced that the ban was ordered as prevent Islamists in Somalia those seeking funds from Somalis community live in U.K.
Home Secretary Alan Johnson issued an order banning Somali extremist group of Al-Shabaab which members of parliament ought to approve.
“Proscription is a tough but necessary power to tackle terrorism and is not a course of action we take lightly," Home Secretary Alan Johnson was quoted.
"Al-Shabaab is committed to violence in or…Somalia: Pirates free a Singaporean tanker
Somali pirates have released a Singaporean-flagged chemical tanker with crews after a ransom was paid, maritime official said. - Somali pirates, who held the chemical tanker MV Pramoni and 24 crews on broad since 1st January, hijacked the ship in the gulf o Aden, according to maritime officials.
Andrew Mwangura, the East African seafarers' assistance programme officer said that the owners of the ship had paid a ransom to pirates.
The European Union naval force in the region also confirmed the delivery of the ransom. The owners of the ship have not made any comment about the report.
The 24 crew members on board included 17 Indonesians, 5 Chinese, one Nigerian and one Vietnamese.Nicolas Sarkozy visits Rwanda
France president Nicolas Sarkozy is visiting Rwanda on Thursday, following years of tension between the two countries since the 1994 genocide. - The spokesman for the Élysée Palace, the official residence of the Frenchman, said that President Sarkozy will meet with his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame in Kigali, the capital of the nation and also visit a memorial to the genocide.
“They will now turn their attention toward the future,” the spokesman said, speaking on normal ground rules of anonymity, the US based Newspaper New York Times reported.
“We will recognize the errors of judgment that France and the international community made,” the spokesman said. The p…Sudan: 57 Darfur rebels released
Sudan began freeing 57 prisoners from Darfur's rebel group named Justice and Equality Movement on Wednesday, a day after Khartoum and Jem group signed a ceasefire agreement in Qatar. - Sudan's Justice Minister Abdel Basit Sabderat, who was inside Kober prison in North of the capital Khartoum, told reporters that 57 men held over an attack on the capital in 2008 would be released. The minister said 50 of them were on death row.
Adam Abdullah al-Nur, who cried as he was swamped by supporters hugging him and chanting, was one of the first prisoners to be released. Reuters news agency quoted him saying "My only concern is to give the people of Darfur their rights, to give any old woman or ch…U.S troops to train Congo soldiers
The U.S military command for Africa (Africom) has begun on Monday training 1,000 Congolese troops in the north of conflict-driven Democratic Republic of Congo, the U.S embassy in the central African country said. - The U.S. Special Forces are training Congo's forces at the eastern town of Kisangani in Democratic Republic of Congo; U.S ambassador in Kinshasa William Garvelink told reporters that the forces will be trained tactics, maintenance and medical care.
"We are working together to build a professional military that protects Congolese citizens and their human rights and protects the territorial integrity of the Congo," Garvelink said.
Last year, a Congolese army operation backed b…Kenya: Kidnapped Canadian rescued
Police in Kenya have rescued a Canadian kidnapped for $130,000 ransom demand last week, police officials said on Monday. - Police in Kenya have rescued a Canadian kidnapped for $130,000 ransom demand last week, police officials said on Monday.
The man was abducted by unknown gunmen last week after he dropped his child off at School in Kenya's capital Nairobi.
Police official David Kerina told AFP news agency that the Canadian was rescued and now free, adding "He was rescued after we pursued some leads which led us to where he was being held".
The man was held at Gatundu, north of Nairobi, where the police raided and shot two of the kidnappers. The kidnappers demanded roughly $130,0…
