By Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed. Before developing into the threat they are today, spreading terror throughout the region's oceans, these Somali pirates where said to be Israelis or Iranians. The thoughts and fears of all sides were brought to the surface, as is customary when facing the impossible or...

By Fredrick Nzwili, (World Council of Churches). With its streets full of bicycle riders transporting luggage or passengers alongside mini buses, Gulu in northern Uganda looks as peaceful as any small African town. However, its inhabitants, who say now they want nothing but peace, have to come to...

THE Southern African Development Community (SADC) has finally plucked up the courage to dispatch monitors to the borders between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda. Unfortunately, knowing the borders are being monitored will not be much consolation to the hundreds of...

TAWILA CAMP,DARFUR - As Sudan lobbies the international community for support in its fight to ward off looming charges of genocide against its president, arguing they would endanger the "great strides" the government is making towards peace, people displaced by more than five years of fighting in...

By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN. Afagooye, SOMALIA- The sense of hopelessness is overwhelming just stepping into a feeding center here. Dozens of women sit with listless babies in their laps, snapping their fingers, trying to get a flicker of life out of their dying children.    ...

By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer.  The contest between President Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir and former rebel Salva Kiir could split the country. KHARTOUM, SUDAN - The U.S.-brokered coalition government that has run this country since 2005 has survived Cabinet reshuffles,...