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A British teacher, Gillian Gibbons, was jailed for 15 days in November 2007 following complaints that she had insulted Islam by allowing her pupils to name a teddy bear Mohammed.... 2008-01-03

Government officials of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) met on December 16 2007 and signed an agreement which should pave the way for further talks on border and... 2008-01-03

President Joseph Kabila now finds himself in an unenviable position. Hardliners in his administration believe that he should not give in the demands by General Nkunda and his rebels,... 2008-01-03

The rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) said on November 20 that it would go ahead with talks to end decades of conflict with the government. According to media reports, the group... 2007-11-27

There was fresh fighting between the army and renegade General Laurent Nkunda during November 2007, uprooting 30,000 people who were already sheltering in displaced camps in the east... 2007-11-27

Allegations regarding the role played by France in the 1994 genocide have been a continual impediment to the establishment of positive relations between the Rwandan and French governments.... 2007-11-26

The UN's most senior peacekeeping official, Jean Marie Guehenno, has expressed fears that its planned force for Darfur could experience "humiliation." His fears are partly based on... 2007-11-23

According to the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, the police may have killed hundreds of people in a crackdown on Kenya's notorious Mungiki gang. The rights group said that... 2007-11-21

Relations between the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and international bodies worsened in October, when Idris Osman, the head of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) in Mogadishu,... 2007-10-30

Rwanda's Foreign Minister Charles Murigande delivered a scathing attack on the DRC's latest plan to disarm exiled Rwandan Hutu extremists in October. The plan envisages that voluntary... 2007-10-30