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¤ U.N. Says Congo Rebels Killed Scores In Attack on Village in the Northeast
United Nations says Lord's Resistance Army killed up to 100 people in remote northeastern Congo in February, two months after rebel massacre of some 300 people in surrounding area; Ugandan Army has killed dozens of LRA fighters hiding out in Congo and Central African Republic, but leader Joseph Kony remains at large, and group is still capable of wreaking havoc; photo | ¤ Uganda Enlists Former Rebels to End a War
Former rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army have been given a new mission by the Ugandan Army: hunt down their former boss and his remaining forces. | ¤ Congolese Politician Goes Before International Court
 Jean-Pierre Bemba, a former vice president and still a sitting senator in Congo, has been accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity. | ¤ REFUGEES RETURN IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
Photo of man returning for first time to his village of Iassabiou, Central African Republic, which was attacked in April by government-backed militias from Sudan that killed 36 people and forced thousands to flee | ¤ Central Africa Guard Unit Is Implicated in Atrocities
A presidential guard unit of the military in the Central African Republic is primarily responsible for atrocities committed against civilians, a report released Friday said. | ¤ Spineless on Sudan
 President Bush has been letting Darfur rhyme with Rwanda and Bosnia. | ¤ Hague Court Inquiry Focuses on Rapes
 The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said that he would investigate human rights violations in the Central African Republic. | ¤ Wedged Amid African Crises, a Neglected Nation Suffers
 The region around the Central African Republic has spawned one of the world’s deadliest and most complex crises. | ¤ Rebels in Central African Republic Clash With French Forces
Rebels said they attacked French Army positions after French warplanes bombed their forces, killing three of them. | ¤ Gambian Defends the International Criminal Court’s Initial Focus on Africans
 All of the cases set to be taken up by the International Criminal Court so far involve Africa, drawing concern among Africans that their continent is the new court’s principal target. |
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¤ AFRICA: AU wants peace, security and bigger global role in 2012
 WASHINGTON 12 January 2012 (IRIN) - The African Union (AU) has unveiled an ambitious wish-list of priorities for Africa that would give the continent a stronger global voice, boost democracy and encourage peace and security. | ¤ CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: UN highlights "security vacuum" as northern clashes continue
 BANGUI 11 January 2012 (IRIN) - Among the most pressing security threats in the Central African Republic (CAR) is a Chadian armed group active in the north of the country, which allegedly continues to recruit and acquire weapons, despite having undertaken to return to Chad. | ¤ HEALTH: Yaws treatment study prompts WHO review
 BANGKOK 11 January 2012 (IRIN) - Findings that a one-time oral treatment to cure yaws, a neglected tropical disease, is as effective as the currently recommended penicillin injection have prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) to convene a meeting on how the disease may be wiped out. | ¤ AID POLICY: Spotlight on New Deal for fragile states
 DAKAR 20 December 2011 (IRIN) - At the global aid effectiveness forum in Busan, South Korea, in November and December this year, the “G7+”, a group of nations which includes 19 fragile and conflict-affected states, agreed a New Deal on fragile states, which sets out concrete and, they hope, more relevant ways to improve peace- and state-building goals. | ¤ CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: A healthcare crisis, says MSF
 BANGUI 14 December 2011 (IRIN) - Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has described the Central African Republic (CAR) as being in a state of “chronic medical emergency” and is calling on donor governments and development agencies to provide additional funding and take urgent action. | ¤ CLIMATE CHANGE: Durban or bust - the Trans-African Caravan of Hope
 KAMPALA 02 December 2011 (IRIN) - Brandishing a plea for developed countries to make good their promises to reduce carbon emissions, 300 farmers, youths and activists took the scenic route to the COP17 conference in Durban, travelling more than 7,000km from Burundi in 17 days, through 10 eastern and southern African countries, aboard a convoy of buses draped in various national flags. | ¤ SECURITY: US advisers limited to "support" role in tracking down LRA
 NEW YORK 22 November 2011 (IRIN) - The main stated aim of the US deployment of 100 military advisers to central Africa is to improve coordination among the armies of countries affected by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) to avoid repeating the fiasco of the 2008 multinational offensive against the group. | ¤ CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: Waiting for Washington
 ZEMIO 22 November 2011 (IRIN) - “We want American soldiers here on the ground. They could sort this out. Just having two of them here would make a big difference.” Sitting outside his office in Zémio, 730km east of the Central African Republic capital, Bangui, the mayor, Pierre-Raymond Agueboti, spoke with anger and frustration about the havoc wrought by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in his region. | ¤ Analysis: Taking on the LRA
 GULU-JUBA-KINSHASA 22 November 2011 (IRIN) - Washington’s contribution of 100 military advisers to help central African forces neutralize the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has been welcomed by some in the countries where the insurgency sows terror, but has also been met by caveats and calls for a negotiated path to peace. | ¤ FOOD: Rumpus over GM food aid
 JOHANNESBURG 18 October 2011 (IRIN) - Genetically modified (GM) food aid bound for Africa has long been a bone of contention among governments, scientists, activists, consumers and aid workers. |
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