Full Coverage: Conflict

29.02.2004 Tony Blair could face further embarrassment in less than a fortnight when fourteen Greenpeace protestors appear in court on charges relating to an anti-war protest. Their case has taken on great significance following the collapse of the case against whistle-blower Katherine Gun, whose defence that her actions were justified to save lives could not be countered.

27.02.2004 L'émergence soudaine de groupes armés occupant des villes haïtiennes depuis le 5 février a bouleversé l'analyse de l'avenir politique de ce pays. Avec ou sans Aristide, avec ou sans présence internationale, selon l'auteur de cet article, il est sans doute déjà trop tard pour une issue démocratique.

27.02.2004 Depuis que, le 4 octobre 2002, le roi Gyanendra a démis le chef du gouvernement Sher Bahadur Deuba et dissous le Parlement, le royaume du Népal reste plongé dans le chaos. Tandis que les principaux partis politiques exigent le retour du pouvoir aux mains des élus, les rebelles maoïstes réclament la fin de la monarchie. Dans ce pays qui figure parmi les plus pauvres du monde, leur mouvement est alimenté par la misère et la corruption. Après la rupture d'un fragile cessez-le-feu de sept mois, le 27 août, les affrontements ont repris.

27.02.2004 The practice of targeting aid workers has now spread to Sudan, where a compound for staff from several UN agencies was attacked last week, causing the suspension of relief activities in the area. Although not yet clear, it appears the attack was carried out by an armed group excluded from the peace talks between Sudan's government and the SPLM/A.

27.02.2004 Haiti has a few hours left to find a compromise that will stop the country's slide towards all-out civil war. Rebel leaders agreed late on Monday to reconsider an international peace plan but there are few positive signs. They still insist that President Jean-Bertrand Aristide must step down. Meanwhile, the rebels continue to advance and are now poised to attack the capital.

27.02.2004 This week, Nepal's Maoist rebels announced plans to raise a militia of 50,000 children by April, amid reports of mass abduction, even sexual abuse of kids, who they allegedly use as cannon fodder.

26.02.2004 WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb 26 (CSM) -- For weeks Haiti's political crisis has posed a latent threat to the 7 million inhabitants of the hemisphere's most impoverished country. But the political opposition's rejection of a US-brokered power-sharing plan, and President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's warning of an exodus of boat people for the shores of Florida, raise the specter of a looming humanitarian crisis.

26.02.2004 Le Congo – l'autre Congo – est séparé de la République démocratique du Congo, pays beaucoup plus vaste et connu, par le fleuve Congo. Comme son voisin du sud, le Congo est déchiré par les guerres civiles et l'instabilité depuis une dizaine d'années mais, contrairement à lui, il ne fait les manchettes que rarement en Occident. Au printemps dernier, une équipe médicale de Médecins Sans Frontières réussissait enfin à pénétrer dans la province du Pool. L'état de santé des habitants était déplorable et le taux de malnutrition élevé chez les survivants.

26.02.2004 A new report released in the United Kingdom Thursday claims the British public is donating millions of dollars as charity to organizations linked to Indian groups accused of spearheading a campaign against minorities in India.

26.02.2004 In Uganda per ricordare le oltre 250 vittime del massacro compiuto lo scorso fine settimana nel campo profughi di Barlonyo dai ribelli del sedicente 'Esercito di resistenza del signore' (LRA) si è svolta ieri mattina una manifestazione che si è conclusa con cinque morti e numerosi feriti. Rimane sempre grave la situazione della popolazione nel nord del Paese e negli stessi campi profughi sotto la costante minaccia dei ribelli.

26.02.2004 A leading Afghan expert has urged postponing the elections, which are slated for June, because of lack of security and international funding.

25.02.2004 À chaque jour, le mur de l'apartheid encercle davantage la Palestine. Entre-temps, Washington et ses alliés sabotent l'initiative de l'Assemblée générale des Nations unies via la Cour internationale de justice de La Haye. Aux insultes s'ajoutent les injures et aux injures s'ajoutent les blessures, gravées dans le corps des jeunes Palestiniens qui meurent à chaque semaine. Devant cette montagne de répression et de mépris, la colère gronde dans les bidonvilles de Gaza, de Naplouse, de Jénine.

25.02.2004 A relief worker living near the West Bank during the construction of Israel's wall describes the wanton destruction of Palestinian orchards and the daily disregard for the rights and needs of people living in the construction area. Now Palestinians are forced to depend on aid rations, writes Rudolf Hinz.

25.02.2004 As the month of Muharram - revered by Shi'ite Muslims for the martyrdom of Imam Hussain, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad - started Sunday, Pakistan went on an unprecedented alert, rounding up extremists and clerics and clamping down on any activity that threatens to spark religious violence.

25.02.2004 Pakistani forces have rounded up a number of al Qaeda sympathizers, including foreigners, from the hilly terrain near the Afghan-Pakistan border in recent days.

25.02.2004 With malnutrition and disease the major causes of children's deaths in armed conflicts, the violence in Haiti is denying many children basic public services and threatening their lives, says the United Nations Children's Fund.

24.02.2004 The worst massacre ever of civilian refugees in a camp in northern Uganda--by Lord's Resistance Army members disguised as soldiers--has sent thousands of fearful internally displaced people running from the camp to seek protection elsewhere. Nearly three-fourths of the population in north is now displaced, and some 30,000 children have been abducted by the LRA.

24.02.2004 As rebels give brief consideration to an international peace proposal, relief groups warn that the crisis is beginning to impact food security, while the Pan American Health Organization issues a plea for respect for the neutrality of hospitals and health centers,

24.02.2004 Soon after a fast-unto-death campaign by jailed Indian fishermen in Sri Lanka, the contentious issue reached a flashpoint Monday after a violent attack on Sri Lankan fishermen by their Indian counterparts, triggering a crisis in relations between the two South Asian countries.

23.02.2004 As opposition forces led by known human rights violaters threaten to take over Haiti's capital and U.S. Marines are sent in to protect the Embassy, a UK-based solidarity group denounces indications that Haiti's most influential opposition leaders--with ties to the Republican Party--support the reconstituting of a Haitian Army reminiscent of the repressive Duvalier regimes. (See Analysis)