The African Union Peace and Security Council, or PSC, has appealed for calm in Madagascar following President Marc Ravalomanana's resignation, and warned opposition forces not to seize power. The Council made clear that any extraconstitutional takeo...
By Al Pessin Pentagon 25 June 2007 A senior American officer involved in training Iraq's new security forces is warning against putting too much responsibility on those forces too quickly, as pressure grows in the United States for the start of a wit...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 24 April 2007 The International Committee of the Red Cross reports hundreds of civilians caught in fighting in Mogadishu, Somalia have been wounded in the past few days and thousands of people continue to flee. The ICRC warns t...
By Teri Schultz Brussels 26 March 2007 Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns, visiting Brussels for talks with European Union and NATO allies, warned Tehran its failure to cooperate with the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency would lead to Iran's further...
By Barry Newhouse Irbil 10 February 2007 General David Petraeus has taken over as commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, during a time that he called a decisive moment for the country's future. In an address at his official handover ceremony Saturday, Ge...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 22 January 2007 An international human-rights watchdog is warning that Rwanda could erupt into a new cycle of violence if the authorities do not protect participants of the country's grassroots trials that hear and prosecute...