Full Coverage: Conflict

31.01.2006 Military Families Against the War says that the death of the 100th British soldier in Iraq yesterday will be marked by protests in towns across the country.

31.01.2006 The U.S. has the perfect opportunity to stop the genocide in Darfur when it takes over the presidency of the U.N Security Council this February. A massive call-in campaign will target the U.S. mission to the U.N. Wednesday and a rally for Darfur will take place at the White House Thursday.

28.01.2006 The UN Security Council must stop the deluge of weapons into Africa's Great Lakes region - particularly northern Uganda and Congo - and protect civilians from attacks by armed groups, a leading charity urged.
* Security Council reviews proposed peacebuilding in Africa’s Great Lakes region

27.01.2006 From the suffragettes and the garment workers who inspired the first International Women's Day to Rosa Parks and her allies in the civil rights movement, U.S. women have a long tradition of standing up for justice and peace, says CodePink founder Medea Benjamin. She calls on America's women to take a stand again and join CodePink's "Women Say No to War" campaign.

27.01.2006 About 400 UN staff members in Ivory Coast have been evacuated to Gambia and Senegal in the wake of attacks on the UN offices.

27.01.2006 After the tsunami, lives and livelihoods are threatened once again by war. The was has caused more disruption to daily life than the tsunami’s brief but tragic assault. Now there are frightening signs that the country is on the brink of a return to full-scale civil war.

26.01.2006 WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan 26 (OneWorld) - The UN Security Council has condemned an attack that killed eight Guatemalan UN peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) amid a new wave of violence sweeping the former Zaire and its neighbors in Africa's Great Lakes region.

26.01.2006 Hamas politicians--who appear to have won a surprising victory in Wednesday's Palestinian parliamentary elections--say they are inspired by, but not in lock step with the group's militant core. Though considered a terrorist group by the U.S. and Israel, Hamas is also known at home for providing social services.

26.01.2006 International development and rights activist Walden Bello explains how military interventions for 'humanitarian reasons' can cause further human rights violations, be corrupted by political goals, and set a dangerous precedent for the disregard of national sovereignty.

26.01.2006 Sudanese refugees are again fleeing Darfur for camps in neighbouring Chad, and the UN refugee chief, António Guterres, has warned the UN Security Council of a "much greater calamity" in the region unless bold measures are taken soon.

25.01.2006 As the first leg of this year's World Social Forum drew to a close in West Africa Monday, participants noted the decidedly "Afrocentric" focus of the event. Despite minor administrative glitches, participants discussed issues ranging from women's rights to the conflict in the Sudan, and shuttled between more than 800 events and activities.

25.01.2006 Citing concerns that senior Sudanese officials have been implicated in war crimes over the continuing conflict in Darfur, a committee of African Union nations has instead elected Congo-Brazzaville's leader to head the continent's organizing body for the next year. To the great chagrin of rights campaigners, Sudan's president will take over the post in 2007, the committee agreed.

25.01.2006 New analysis reportedly shows important lessons can be learned from the differing responses of Indonesia and Sri Lanka to conflict and "un-natural" disasters.

25.01.2006 Unidentified assailants killed journalist Subramaniyam Sugirdharajan of the Tamil-language newspaper Sudaroli in the port city of Trincomalee on 24 January 2006, a day after he wrote an article about abuses committed by Tamil political organisations. International organisations Free Media Movement (FMM), Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières, RSF) and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) have reported on the incident.

24.01.2006 WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan 24 (OneWorld) - New fighting has broken out in Sudan's Darfur region in apparent protest against the Khartoum regime's candidacy to head the African Union (AU). The move comes as the Bush administration prepares to preside over the U.N. Security Council amid calls for it to end the bloody conflict.

24.01.2006 Recent remarks by senior U.S. and U.N. officials, as well as by African Union representatives indicate a growing consensus on the need for a U.N. intervention to stop the violence in Darfur, says Africa Action. The group has called on the U.S. to use its chairmanship of the U.N. Security Council in February to push the issue.

24.01.2006 Tribal disputes are on the increase as Kenya’s drought intensifies, a development agency has warned, with nomadic peoples starting to fight over scarce fertile land in the north-east.

24.01.2006 Reporters Without Borders today condemned the censorship and police violence against journalists which have accompanied the Nepalese government’s crackdown on the opposition’s efforts to stage pro-democracy demonstrations in the past few days.

23.01.2006 UN refugee agency teams have been sent to the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in response to the arrival in the last few days of some 20,000 people fleeing fighting in the eastern DRC.

23.01.2006 The UN Office on Drugs and Crime which held a meeting with the Afghanistan government on the potential risks of drug cultivation has said that poppy cultivation in the country has gone down by about 20 per cent but strong measures need to be taken to ensure that there is no reversal.