Full Coverage: Conflict

25.11.2005 Two more mass graves - apparently of SWAPO independence fighters - have been found in northern Namibia, making a total of five since the discovery of the first on 9 November.

23.11.2005 The Taliban has claimed that it has killed the kidnapped Indian driver, Ramankutty Maniappan, who was working with the Indian road constrction organisation - Border Roads Organisation (BRO). The Afghan government and Indian sources say that the fate of the kidnapped driver is still unknown.

22.11.2005 The U.S. should urge the U.N. to provide a stronger mandate and larger force to protect the vulnerable in Darfur, Sudan, said Africa Action Monday. The U.S. is in a strong position to initiate an intervention and Americans want it, the group said, citing the thousands of postcards U.S. citizens have sent to the White House calling for action.

19.11.2005 SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 19 (OneWorld) - According to terrorism and nuclear experts, the Bush administration probably tweaked some, but not all of the intelligence that led to the invasion of Iraq.

17.11.2005 A political storm continues to rage over the Iraqi defence minister’s recent threat to kill people helping insurgents and destroy their properties.

16.11.2005 Weak government controls are failing to stop diamonds from fuelling conflict, according to a new report.

16.11.2005 Three people were killed and 24 injured during protests in the district of Hakkari Turkey, according to reports. Concerns have been raised over the escalating violence in the area.

11.11.2005 Military Families Against the War is planning protests and vigils on the day that the 100th British soldier dies in Iraq. The death toll currently stands at 98.

11.11.2005 The UN Security Council has been criticised for leaving the impression that it is dangerously out of touch with the human cost of the 19-year war in northern Uganda.

10.11.2005 The Bush administration has so far failed to provide adequate diplomatic and military support to stop the killing in Darfur, says a new report released Wednesday by Refugees International, echoing calls from lawmakers and other Africa advocates for a stronger international force in the embattled Sudanese region.

10.11.2005 UNITED NATIONS, Nov 10 (OneWorld) - Alarmed by the recent upsurge in violence in Sudan's strife-torn Darfur region, international human rights groups are demanding the United Nations and United States take immediate actions for the protection of civilians.

09.11.2005 Sending care packages to Iraq, supporting organizations that help veterans put their lives back to together after war, and raising awareness about the injustices our troops face are just some of the ways you can support our troops this Friday, say Women for Peace advocates Medea Benjamin and Gayle Brandeis.

09.11.2005 Afghanistan has been embroiled in a state of near-constant conflict since 1979, but the first reported suicide bombing took place just last year. Afghanistan journalist Claudio Franco reports on how tactics used against U.S. forces in Iraq appear to be spreading to Afghanistan.

09.11.2005 The riots in Paris and across France have been ignited by decades of inequality, police racism and impunity, argues Naima Bouteldja.

09.11.2005 "It is time to put human needs ahead of narrow military and political calculus," say the Worldwatch Insitute's Michael Renner and Zoë Chafe, warning that India and Pakistan are squandering an opportunity to bring aid to the needy--and peace to the subcontinent.

04.11.2005 Sytex, a subsidiary of Lockheed, the world's largest military contractor, has emerged as one of the biggest recruiters of private interrogators deployed to the United States-run prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan, reports Pratap Chatterjee.

04.11.2005 UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan this week called for "decisive steps to defuse the escalating tension" between Ethiopia and Eritrea and the commander of UN peacekeeers in the border buffer zone warned of the dangers of "a renewed outbreak of war". The build-up of troops on both sides of the border was not unexpected: several weeks ago OneWorld UK reported on Why Africa's two bald men could return to war.

04.11.2005 The Ethiopian capital was tense but calm on Friday, after three days of rioting left at least 42 dead and more than 100 injured, according to doctors.
OneWorld Short Guide to Ethiopia

04.11.2005 33 people have been killed and an estimated 2,000 detained as opposition protestors and police continue to clash in Addis Ababa. The violence erupted Tuesday when the government threatened legal action against the country's main opposition party, which is boycotting Ethiopia's parliament after disputed elections in May.

03.11.2005 Despite a claim by a released rebel that the Lord's Resistance Army is operating a 'shoot to kill' policy against NGOs in retaliation for a UN International Criminal Court indictment of its leader, aid agencies have decided to resume operations in the north, AMREF told OneWorld UK on Thursday. Work was suspended after the killing of two workers.