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The Security Council today encouraged the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA) to form partnerships with other organizations to help countries in the region to address peace and security challenges, particularly the flow of illicit small arms, border security and the threat posed by the marauding Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA).

Magharebia

One of the top religious leaders in Mauritania has some new ideas for eradicating the scourge of terrorism, including the recognition that Muslims are not the only perpetrators.

Agencies

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has warned that the country is tottering on the brink of anarchy and imperial presidency, as the action taken by President Goodluck Jonathan on the judicial crisis has exposed his true colour.

MOGADISHU (Reuters) 

Their life's belongings piled on donkeys, Somali families weave along alleys filled with the corpses of starved animals to return to their bullet-ridden homes.
After four years of war, Mogadishu bears the signs of a city slowly rising from the ruins of war.