Intergovernmental Authority on Development

Campaign against border raids on the way

By MUCHEMI WACHIRAPosted Thursday, November 5 2009 at 14:11 Forum was expected to foster security along the Kenya-Ethiopia-Somalia common border to make the three countries work together as a cluster zone for IGAD. A major...

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Kenya says Sudan's north-south peace deal to bolster Darfur conflict

By Daniel Ooko NAIROBI, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) -- Kenya said on Thursday that the full implementation of Sudan's Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) will greatly boost efforts aimed at the Darfur peace process. Kenyan President Mwai...

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Southern Sudan braces for disintegration-NAIROBI

Replies: 0 Last poster: Ramadhan at 29-10-2009 10:07 Topic is Open Southern Sudan braces for disintegration By RAMADHAN RAJAB 29TH OCTOBER Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) has called on IGAD and the International Community...

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U.S. Needs Int’l Partners for Its New Sudan Policy, But Many Countries Are Uncooperative

The Obama administration's newly unveiled Sudan policy envisages working with a broad "multilateral coalition," but many Islamic and African countries have blocked efforts to apply pressure on the Sudanese government or condemn...

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East Africa: Preparing to Mitigate Negative Impact of El Nino

As countries across East Africa and the Horn of Africa begin to receive El Nino-related enhanced rainfall, disaster risk reduction experts from 10 countries in the region are meeting in Nairobi to develop strategies for...

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Foreign extremists behind much of the fighting in Somalia, UN debate hears

26 September 2009 – The fighting and humanitarian suffering that continues to engulf much of Somalia is the work largely of foreign extremists taking advantage of the anarchy that has prevailed in the Horn of Africa country for...

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USAID provides $500,000 to IGAD for regional pastoral conflict

NAIROBI, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) -- The U.S.'s development agency, USAID, has signed an agreement with six-nation regional bloc, the Inter Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) that provides 500,000 U.S. dollars to enable the...

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Somalia: 'Peacekeepers Command Intact'

THE Ugandan army has named the four peacekeepers who died during the double suicide attack in Mogadishu on Thursday. UPDF also revealed that 21 Ugandan soldiers were injured in the attack and were undergoing treatment in Nairobi.

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Somali Rebels Tell Schools to Scrap U.N. Textbooks

MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somalia's hardline al Shabaab insurgents have warned schools not to use textbooks provided by U.N. agencies and other donors they accuse of being un-Islamic. The rebel group, which Washington says is al...

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