Armed men have ambushed a convoy of police and international peacekeepers escorting civilian workers in Sudan's troubled Darfur region, killing one peacekeeper and wounding another two.
Armed raiders have kidnapped two foreign members of the joint UN-African Union peacekeeping force for Darfur in a town in Sudan's restive western region, a spokesperson for the UNAMID mission said.
MONUC, the United Nations peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of Congo, is to get another 3,000 soldiers by the end of October. They will be deployed in the volatile east and north-east of the country.
The Lebanese army says it has uncovered a network of fighters operating out of the Ain al-Hiweh Palestinian refugee camp who were allegedly planning attacks against the army and UN peacekeepers. Ten arrests have been made.
Security is elusive in the Somali capital, where African Union troops are increasingly coming under attack from Islamist fighters seeking to overthrow the government. FRANCE 24’s Franck Berruyer reports from Mogadishu.
A United Nations peacekeeper was shot dead and his car was stolen by unidentified gunmen in Nyala, the capital of South Darfur, UN sources say. The officer was killed in front of his home while parking his car on Thursday.
The Sri Lankan government has formally ended Norway's decade-long role as a peace mediator, saying they are close to crushing the rebels. Norway brokered a ceasefire in 2002 but a recent attack on the Sri Lankan embassy in Oslo angered Colombo.
The United Nations takes control over the Chad peacekeeping mission from the EU Sunday. About 2,000 EU troops will join the UN force charged with protecting refugees from neighbouring Sudan's war-torn Darfur region.
African Union troops killed at least 18 civilians in Somalia when they responded with gunfire to a roadside bomb attack, local officials said Monday. A spokesman for the AU forces denied the charges.
The UN Security Council has unanimously renewed the mandate of its peacekeeping mission in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo for a year. The mission, known as MONUC, is due to receive an additional 3,000 peacekeepers.
