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We’re just so tired of writing about War and the Evil that Man does to Man

The Mumbai incident is so fresh in our minds, that we looked around for other conflicts, only to be reminded of those we have been monitoring for years. Yes Years..

that statement is sickening.. but these news headlines are the sick reality

Since it’s sunday lets begin with Christian Mob Justice – in Nigeria, HA !

Riots ‘kill hundreds in Nigeria’

Hundreds of people are reported to have been killed in central Nigeria after Christians and Muslims clashed over the result of a local election.

A Muslim charity in the town of Jos says it collected more than 300 bodies, and fatalities are also expected among Christians.

There is no official confirmation yet, and figures are notoriously unreliable in Nigeria, says the BBC’s Alex Last.

Police have imposed a 24-hour curfew and the army is patrolling the streets.

They have been given orders to shoot on sight in an effort to quell hostilities that mark the worst clashes in the restive West African nation since 2004.

For the second straight day on Saturday, angry mobs went through the town burning homes, churches and mosques.

The Nigerian Red Cross says at least 10,000 people have fled their homes.

Contested election

The mostly Christian-backed governing party, the People’s Democratic Party, was declared to have won the state elections in Plateau state, of which Jos is the capital city.

Security forces could be seen in the town

The result was contested by the opposition All Nigeria People’s Party, which has support from Muslims.

Violence started on Thursday night as groups of angry youths burnt tyres on the roads over reports of election rigging.

Bodies from the Muslim Hausa community were brought into the central mosque compound.

The local imam, Sheikh Khalid Abubakar, said more than 300 dead bodies were brought there on Saturday alone.

Those killed in the Christian community would probably be taken to the city morgue, raising the possibility that the total death toll could be much higher.

Police spokesman Bala Kassim said there were “many dead,” but couldn’t cite a firm number.

Despite the overnight curfew, groups in some areas took to the streets again as soon as police patrols had passed by.

Troubled past

In 2001, more than 1,000 people died in religious clashes in the city, situated in Nigeria’s fertile “middle belt” that separates the Muslim north from the predominantly Christian south.

And in 2004, a state of emergency was declared in Plateau state after more than 200 Muslims were killed in the town of Yelwa in attacks by Christian militia.

Correspondents say communal violence in Nigeria is complex, but it often boils down to competition for resources such as land between those that see themselves as indigenous versus the more recent settlers.

In Plateau, Christians are regarded as being indigenous and Hausa-speaking Muslims the settlers.

Then We Continue with Congo and it’s horrendous genocide – again, Why ?

Congo rebel chief threatens ‘war’

Gen Nkunda (in white) proposes Mr Obasanjo as the mediator of talks

Rebel leader General Laurent Nkunda has threatened war unless the government of DR Congo holds a new round of talks.

He was speaking after a meeting with UN envoy Olusegun Obasanjo in the rebel-held eastern town of Jomba.

Troops loyal to Gen Nkunda have been battling government forces in North Kivu province since August, forcing 250,000 people to flee their homes.

Two weeks ago Mr Obasanjo negotiated a ceasefire, but renewed fighting has since broken out.

“If there is no negotiation, let us say then there is war,” Gen Nkunda told reporters.

“I know that (the government) has no capacity to fight, so they have only one choice – negotiations,” he said.

“We asked for a response as to where, when, and with whom we are going to do these talks. For us, we propose Nairobi and for the mediator we proposed chief Obasanjo,” Mr Nkunda said.

Government ministers this week rebuffed the possibility of direct negotiations with the rebel leader, calling for him to return to an earlier peace pact signed in January.

Advancing peace

Emerging from his one-hour meeting, Mr Obasanjo avoided questions but said: “We have advanced the course of peace.”

Mr Obasanjo – Nigeria’s former president – is on his second visit to the region in two weeks.

FORCES AROUND GOMA CNDP: Gen Nkunda’s Tutsi rebels – 6,000 fighters FDLR: Rwandan Hutus – 6-7,000 Mai Mai: pro-government militia – 3,500 Monuc: UN peacekeepers – 6,000 in North Kivu, including about 1,000 in Goma (17,000 nationwide) DRC army - 90,000 (nationwide) Source: UN, military experts DR Congo: Key facts

He has been trying to broker direct talks between Gen Nkunda and Congolese President Joseph Kabila, but so far these have not taken place.

The UN envoy is travelling with former Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa, who is representing the African Union.

“I’m going to listen to him,” Mr Mkapa said ahead of the meeting with Gen Nkunda.

“I want to know how he thinks we can get the restoration of peace, stability and unity in this country.”

Truce violated

A ceasefire declared by Gen Nkunda has halted battles with government troops and brought nearly two weeks of relative calm.

But his men have continued attacking Congolese and Rwandan militia allies of the government, sending thousands of refugees fleeing east into Uganda.

Gen Nkunda says the ceasefire does not apply to operations against foreign militia.

On Thursday, the rebels took the border town of Ishasha, about 120km (75 miles) north of regional capital Goma.

His Tutsi-dominated forces say they are attacking Rwandan Hutu fighters, some of whom are accused of taking part in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, in which some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were slaughtered.

On Friday, the UN began an operation to relocate people from camps near the front line.

Some 65,000 people displaced by fighting have been living only a few hundred metres from fighting positions in Kibati, near Goma.

The UN is trying to transfer people to safer locations west of Goma.

Then Add to this picture of death – Joseph Koney, the Ghost of Peace;

He lies and says he will sign the peace treaty, only to disappear into the proverbial forest, again sticking his head in the sand ignoring the devistation he is raining on all around him.  I know there is a special place in eternity for those who commit atrocities such as these. I am sure of it.

Uganda rebel fails to sign deal

Ugandas’ Koney Refuses to sign Cease Fire – Peace Deal

Joseph Kony is accused of numerous war crimes

Mediators are returning to their base after the Ugandan rebel leader, Joseph Kony failed to sign a peace deal.

The mediation team is expected to return to the remote area near the Congolese border on Sunday to try once more to have the deal signed.

During the tortuous two-year negotiations, Mr Kony has failed to appear on several previous occasions.

The mediation effort is being led by former Mozambiquan President Joaquim Chissano and Sudan’s Riek Machar.

They are returning to the Southern Sudanese capital, Juba, leaving some of their team on the ground, hoping that the process can be brought to a successful conclusion on Sunday.

Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army rebel leader Joseph Kony has not showed up to previous signing ceremonies on several occasions during two years of protracted negotiations.

Mr Kony has in the past blamed the Ugandan government for jeopardising the talks, by moving troops into the area, in an attempt to assassinate him.

Earlier, Uganda’s government said it would ask for arrest warrants for Mr Kony to be lifted if he signed.

But Ugandan Foreign Minister Sam Kutesa made it clear that Mr Kony must sign the deal first before the issue of the International Criminal Court (ICC) was addressed.

“We were only prepared to talk to the ICC about an alternative method of resolving that dispute, and also of justice in the country, only if peace is going to come to the people of northern Uganda,” he told the BBC’s World Today programme.

I think that the UN Security Council would facilitate because the alternative is to have Kony forever in the jungles of Congo UN mediator Joachim Chissano Congo terror after LRA rebel raids

He added that as far as the government was concerned Mr Kony was the only serious obstacle to a final peace agreement being signed by the two sides.

“Our people are ready to sign any time, but Kony is the one who has been eluding us,” he said.

Before today’s setback Mr Chissano told the BBC’s Focus on Africa programme that he understood Mr Kony was heading to the signing ceremony in Ri Kwangba in South Sudan from his jungle hideout in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Optimistic

The UN special envoy said he could not guarantee that Mr Kony would sign this time, but he was optimistic.

“I don’t have reasons to doubt that he’ll not show up, because all the indications which he gave coming up to now are encouraging so I’m more confident than a few weeks ago,” he said.

A one-year suspension by UN Security Council of the arrest warrants would give the government time to prove that it was able to deal with the matter, Mr Chissano said.

“I think that the UN Security Council would facilitate because the alternative is to have Kony forever in the jungles of Congo.”

The LRA has led a rebellion for more than 20 years which has displaced some two million people in northern Uganda.

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