C.Africa troops peacefully retake airport from rebels
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Central African Republic forces (FACA) on Tuesday peacefully took back control of the airfield at Birao that they had abandoned following rebel attacks at the weekend, both sides said.
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Declaring that peace had been restored in part of Pakistan&#39;s restive tribal areas, Pakistani military officials have announced that troops will
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Ivory Coast rebels vowed on Monday to repel army attacks robustly as African leaders sought to resurrect a peace process in the world&#39;s top cocoa grower and the United Nations mulled an arms embargo.
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Rebels from Ivory Coast wrapped up two days of talks with President Thabo Mbeki on Friday, pledging they would not stand in the way of peace in their war-divided West African country.
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Government planes in Ivory Coast bombed two rebel-held towns yesterday, ending a tenuous yearlong cease-fire and indicating a possible resumption of civil war.
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Residents in Bolivia's Santa Cruz province seize the country's busiest airport after troops withdraw.
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UN forces have been deployed to restore calm in Liberia&#39;s capital of Monrovia where sectarian violence sparked widespread looting and destruction.
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Government planes in Ivory Coast conducted bombing raids against two rebel-held towns starting shortly after sunrise on Thursday, ending a tenuous yearlong cease
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With military support from France, the army of the Central African Republic has taken back control of Ouadda Djalle, the last town that fell into rebel hands, French military and rebel sources said.
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The army in the Central African Republic has recaptured the last town in rebel hands, Ouadda Djalle, with French military help, a French military source has said.
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Ivory Coast rebels vowed on Monday to repel army attacks robustly as African leaders sought to resurrect a peace process in the world's top cocoa grower and the United Nations mulled an arms embargo.
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Ethiopian troops trying to protect Somalia's weak government moved into a second Somali town before dawn Saturday, seizing control of an airport, witnesses and aid workers said.
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A final group of rebel field commanders arrived from the wartorn western Sudanese province of Darfur, clearing the way for the start of formal peace negotiations with the Khartoum government.
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The African Union vowed on Wednesday to continue deploying peacekeepers in Somalia, brushing aside threats from an Islamist commander and an ambush of its troops in the lawless capital.
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UN peacekeepers hand control of security in the Sierra Leone capital, Freetown, to local forces after the end of a brutal war.
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Parliament votes for Somalia's cabinet to relocate to the capital, as AU troops take control of the airport.
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Ivory Coast government forces have resumed air strikes on former rebels, while political violence targeting opposition parties in Abidjan raised fears of fresh civil strife.