About 2 000 people have fled Sri Lanka’s shrinking war zone over the past two days as troops fight towards a final showdown with Tiger rebels.
The Ugandan army on Monday killed 16 rebels and rescued 19 people abducted by rebels as part of operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
At least 15 people were killed and another 60, including a government minister, wounded on Tuesday in a suicide bombing in southern Sri Lanka.
Soldiers killed 150 rebels carrying out waves of counter attacks, and the pace of refugees fleeing the war zone picked up speed over the weekend.
The government appealed on Friday for civilians to flee the war zone and said it would open two safe passages in the area for the exodus.
Human Rights Watch called on Thursday on the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil Tigerss to allow civilians trapped in the war zone to flee to safety.
Sri Lankan forces are holding back their strength against Tamil Tiger rebels to comply with international rules of war, a minister said on Monday.
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/ 17 February 2009
Sri Lanka’s cornered Tamil Tiger rebels have intensified conscription of child soldiers, some as young as 14, Unicef said on Tuesday.
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/ 13 February 2009
Fighting between government forces and rebels are killing about 40 civilians every day, the top health official in the region said on Friday.
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/ 11 February 2009
Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers on Wednesday denied gunning down civilians streaming out of the country’s war zone.
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/ 3 February 2009
Patients who could walk fled one of the last functioning hospitals in Sri Lanka’s northern war zone on Tuesday after it was hit by artillery shells.
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/ 30 January 2009
Sri Lanka’s president urged the Tiger rebels on Friday to allow about 250 000 civilians trapped in the northern war zone to flee to safety.
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/ 15 January 2009
About 50 teenagers amble hollow-eyed on the lawn of Liberia’s sole psychiatric hospital, drug-laced casualties of a civil war fought using children.
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/ 14 January 2009
Liberia has just 122 doctors to treat its 3,5 million people, who desperately need at least 1 000 physicians, or almost 10 times that number.
Assault signals Tamil Tigers are turning to guerrilla tactics as government closes in on rebel-held territory.
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/ 29 December 2008
The mountainous region in north-eastern Ethiopia was ravaged by the border conflict that left about 80 000 dead between 1998 and 2000.
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/ 26 December 2008
David Smith and Stephanie Wolters look at conflicts in
the continent’s war-torn countries.
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/ 15 December 2008
The threat of Ugandan rebels on its soil overcame the DRC’s differences with Uganda, a Kinshasa government spokesperson said Monday.
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/ 26 November 2008
Southern Sudan women played a significant role in the war, but today their contribution is often overlooked.
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/ 15 November 2008
Despite calls for a ceasefire, fighting continues in the eastern DRC and the atmosphere remains tense, writes Stephanie Wolters.
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/ 13 November 2008
Michel became a child soldier after he left his house in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to get some milk and never returned.
Despite setbacks, the AU is making steady progress in bringing the continent’s conflicts to an end.
A diplomatic offensive by the Sudanese president has endangered the ICC’s charges against him, writes Simon Tisdall.
Our long shopping list of missing equipment makes shameful reading. It should not take the loss of innocent lives to understand what is at stake here.
Rwandan prosecution team is considering asking the UN to take action against Kenya.
Sri Lankan security forces shot dead at another 32 Tamil Tiger rebels and lost two of their own soldiers in fresh fighting in the island’s north.
The government of South Sudan ordered Ugandan troops hunting rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army to leave its territory on Monday.
Ongoing clashes and the national army’s brutal response to rebel groups have created widespread insecurity.
UN diplomats trying to solve the conflict in Darfur must better address the proxy war between Chad and Sudan, analysts say.
A thatched roof propped up by sticks provides the only shelter from driving rain for Sudanese mother Akur Chol Akur and her three young sons.
The UN has so far found 89 bodies in the disputed oil-rich Abyei region of Sudan from fighting that erupted last month, a UN official said on Monday.
The two-year peace process in Uganda aimed at ending a rebellion by the notorious Lord’s Resistance Army lies in tatters as the rebels rearm.