N’DJAMENA, April 18 (Reuters) – Chad’s former head of state, Goukouni Weddeye, has offered to meet eastern rebels fighting President Idriss Deby to try to persuade them to begin peace talks, the Chadian presidency said on Wednesday.
Goukouni, who ruled the landlocked central African country from 1979 to 1982, when he was deposed by Deby’s [...]

15 Apr 2007 20:24:09 GMT
Source: Reuters
WASHINGTON, April 15 (Reuters) – Embattled World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz said on Sunday he intends to continue his “important work” while leaving the controversy surrounding the promotion of his girlfriend to deliberations by the bank’s board of directors.
“This is important work and I intend to continue it,” Wolfowitz told [...]

15 Apr 2007 20:39:29 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Lesley Wroughton
WASHINGTON, April 15 (Reuters) – Development ministers from around the globe on Sunday voiced “great concern” over World Bank chief Paul Wolfowitz’s handling of his girlfriend’s promotion, but Wolfowitz said he intends to stay in his job.
“The current situation is of great concern to all of us,” [...]

By VOA News
15 April 2007
The African Union says gunmen in Sudan’s troubled Darfur region have killed another A.U. peacekeeper.
An A.U. spokesman says the unidentified attackers shot the peacekeeper and stole his vehicle late Saturday near the entrance of an A.U. compound in Al-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state. The nationality of the dead peacekeeper [...]

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By Michael Georgy
KHARTOUM, April 14 (Reuters) – Chad’s foreign minister said on Saturday his country wanted a peaceful resolution to border conflict with Sudan but would use military force against rebels and Sudanese militias it accuses of entering its territory.
Ahmat Allam-Mi was in Sudan’s capital Khartoum on [...]

DUBAI, April 14 (Reuters) – The fugitive leader of Somalia’s ousted Islamists has threatened to target African peacekeepers in the country but said he would work with the government on reconciliation if foreign troops left, an Arab newspaper said.
Sheikh Hassan Dhahir Aweys told Asharq al-Awsat newspaper that fighters of the deposed Islamic courts in [...]

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WASHINGTON, April 14 (Reuters) – World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz must decide whether he still has the credibility to head the institution, following controversy over his handling of a promotion for his girlfriend, a top German official said on Saturday.
“For me the most important thing is that the moral authority and the [...]

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By Jean-Magloire Issa
BANGUI, April 13 (Reuters) – Central African Republic’s government and northeastern rebels signed a peace accord on Friday that established a ceasefire and an amnesty for the insurgents, officials said.
President Francois Bozize flew to Birao, more than 800 km (500 miles) northeast of the capital Bangui, to [...]

By Skye Wheeler
JUBA, Sudan, April 13 (Reuters) – Peace in southern Sudan turns people’s thoughts to marriage and investment — both of which traditionally involve giving, or keeping, cows. For the government, the cows are proving too much of a good thing.
Parents-in-law are demanding cows promised as bride-price during the long war years, and [...]

Blogged by: Megan Rowling
Two sacks of salt, 18 bars of soap, four packets of coffee, 24 bottles of beer and two bags of sugar. That’s the compensation a Congolese community can expect for giving a logging company access to huge areas of local rainforest. If they’re really lucky, they might get a school or a [...]