01.08.06
The Congo Situation
The Demogratic Republic of Congo, the third largest country in Africa will hold it’s presidential election in April 2006. According to a new survey, the long continued war over rich natural resources, also now as the First World War of Africa, was/is the deadliest one in The World in the last 60 years.
“More people have been killed in the second Congo war than in Bosnia, Rwanda, Kosovo and Darfur.There are factions from six different countries involved. This along with the loose organisation of the forces make peace keeping and agreements difficult because small militias do as they please, ignoring all truces between the leaders. The origin of the conflict lays in the Rwandan genocyde…”
Read the full post in Sampsa Daily: Situation in Congo
01.03.06
Somali Government Set to Relocate
Somalia is the only country without a government. This has been so since 1991, when the war between rival clans started. Somalia got a president in 2004, elected by a transitional parliament (based in Kenya as I recall). The parliament and president Yusuf have since moved to Somalia but haven’t been able to work in the capital Mogadishu. This is due to their safety;
“The prime minister has twice survived assassination attempts when he has visited the capital for talks.”
The interim government and rivals have held talks in yemen are close to making a deal that would allow the government to relocate itself to Mogadishu. BBC -has the full story.
