Tension mounted in Sudan on Wednesday ahead of a decision by the ICC on whether to issue an arrest warrant for President Omar al-Bashir.
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/ 20 October 2008
First the Ugandan rebels locked the children in the village school. Then they killed those adults who resisted and tied down others.
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/ 24 September 2008
Sudanese forces were laying siege on Wednesday to a remote desert hideout where bandits have 19 people captive.
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/ 16 January 2008
A catchy ”song for peace” crackling over Kenyan radio is breaking pace with the litany of doom and gloom and bloody fallout from last month’s elections that dominates the air waves these days. WaKenya Pamoja (Kenya Together) carries a different message, and maybe a reason not to give up on a vote meant to uphold this nation as a beacon of democracy in a troubled region.
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/ 22 November 2007
Holding up a grubby, worn banknote, the ex-rebel fighter points proudly to an image famous across Eritrea — defiant liberation soldiers raising a flag on a mountain peak. It’s 10 years this month since Africa’s youngest nation enthusiastically launched its own currency in November 1997, the nakfa.
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/ 11 November 2007
Surrounded by yellow papers crackling to the touch, archivists painstakingly catalogue documents and photographs that make up the history of a nation — and the vertebrae of Eritrea’s national archive. It’s a record of one of Africa’s most remarkable rebel armies, documenting the past spirit of optimism that drove their 30-year bitter guerrilla war.
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/ 5 September 2007
Frustrated avant-garde architects from an architecturally conservative early 20th-century Europe used Asmara, the Eritrean capital, to experiment with radical new designs. They left a legacy valued by Eritreans and by experts worldwide, but lesser known outside this little-visited country.
In the flickering light of Asmara’s Impero Cinema, Eritreans sit gripped by a tale of brave soldiers risking all in love and war. Eritrea’s young film industry is booming. Only 14 years after the Horn of Africa country acquired its independence from Ethiopia, about 60 new films are released every year in the nation’s main Tigrinya language.
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/ 12 October 2006
Just two steps into the tall grass and jungle at Ri-Kwangba, a remote border outpost, and the dreadlocked gunmen clad in worn camouflage merge into the leafy forest — invisible, protected and feared. For nearly 20 years, Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels have relied on standard guerrilla techniques to wreak havoc and destruction across war-torn northern Uganda, staging quick and lethal raids before disappearing into the bush.
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/ 9 September 2006
As dusk falls in a jungle clearing in the wild borderlands of Southern Sudan near the Ugandan border, villagers stare nervously into a twisted mass of trees. Somewhere out there, hidden in the surrounding thick bush, are Lord’s Resistance Army rebels who have terrorised this region since being driven out of northern Uganda where they have waged a brutal, nearly 20-year insurgency.