Haiti, U.N. to disarm gang members
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Haiti's government and U.N. peacekeepers will launch a major campaign to disarm up to 1,000 gang members with promises of money, food and job training, but top gang leaders will not be eligible for the plan, the U.N. envoy said Monday.
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The last two main militia groups in Congo's most troubled province agreed to disarm in exchange for amnesty and army positions, officials said Thursday as violence erupted in the capital reportedly killing seven people ahead of historic weekend elections.
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IT WILL take as long as two years to disarm the Arab Janjaweed militias that have carried out a campaign of genocide in the Sudanese region of Darfur, the top United States envoy to Sudan said yesterday.
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SAN SALVADOR  The United States and four Central American nations agreed on Monday to toughen a crackdown on violent youth gangs that have terrorized the region in a rampage of murders. rapes and robberies.
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BELFAST -- Northern Ireland's largest and most violent outlawed group, the Ulster Defense Association, said yesterday it will desist from further attacks and wants to rejoin peacemaking efforts.
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WASHINGTON, DC, Oct 20 (OneWorld) The administration of US President George W. Bush has lifted a 13-year arms embargo on Haiti, amid sporadic violence that threatens to plunge the western hemisphereï¿½s poorest nation back into chaos.
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UN peacekeepers worked Saturday to contain violence in Haiti caused by protesters calling for the return of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti  - Haiti's U.S.-backed  government vowed on Friday to crush "terrorist" supporters of  exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide as gunfire crackled in  the capital on the 10th anniversary of the end of a coup  against him.
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MONROVIA, Liberia - Armed UN troops arrested dozens of men Sunday in a sometimes bloody conclusion to a countrywide disarmament program, days after a fresh burst of violent in the war-battered West African nation.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Enraged supporters of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide armed themselves and roamed a downtown slum, threatening to behead foreigners after UN peacekeepers and Haitian police arrested dozens of people yesterday.
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UN Brazilian peacekeepers leave their positions near the home of ousted Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide in the suburb of Tabarre in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, Dec. 17, 2004.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Feb. 9 -- U.N. troops fought a block-by-block gun battle with gangs in one of this capital's notorious slums Friday, in the force's largest offensive since being deployed here in 2004.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti Oct. 6, 2004 - UN peacekeepers and Haitian police in armored personnel carriers moved in on a downtown slum blocked by loyalists of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, taking action Wednesday to halt a new urban offensive.
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The US embassy in Haiti was closed on Friday to mark a national call for an end to violence inthe strife-torn country, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said at a news briefing.
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The United Nations said Tuesday it will send 350 more peacekeepers to Haiti in the latest effort to flush out armed gangs from the capital's slums.
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Former Haitian soldiers who fought to oust former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide say they intend to provide security to help stop street violence in the capital, Port-au-Prince.
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The two main militia groups in Congo's most troubled province agreed to disarm in exchange for amnesty and positions in the army, a breakthrough that could end fighting in the northeast and ensure a peaceful presidential vote Sunday.