UN concerned after 100 killed in Sudanese ethnic clashSeptember 22nd, 2009 NAIROBI/JUBA - The UN Tuesday said it was concerned at the deterioration of security in Southern Sudan after the latest in a series of ethnic clashes claimed the lives of over 100 people. Armed Lou Nuer tribesmen Sunday attacked civilians and the military in the village of Duk Padiet in Jonglei State.
24 dead in tribal clashes in northern Kenya and dozens wounded, lawmaker saysSeptember 15th, 2009 24 dead in tribal clashes in Kenya, lawmaker saysNAIROBI, Kenya — Tribal clashes killed 24 people and wounded dozens Tuesday as the country's scorching drought exacerbates tensions over land and water in arid northern Kenya, a lawmaker said. Raphael Letimao, the Samburu East lawmaker, said gunbattles between the Samburu and Pokot tribes began early Tuesday.
Watchdog group: discrepancies in Sudan oil figures, southern Sudan could be owed millionsSeptember 7th, 2009 Watchdog: discrepancies in Sudan oil figuresNAIROBI, Kenya — Sudan's central government could owe its semiautonomous south hundreds of millions of dollars in oil revenue, threatening a 2005 peace deal that ended Sudan's two-decade civil war, a watchdog group said Monday. London-based Global Witness said it has found discrepancies in reports of Sudan's oil production, which "raises serious questions about whether the revenues are being shared fairly" between north and south, the report said.
Report: More tribal violence in southern Sudan leaves 24 dead, dozens woundedSeptember 5th, 2009 Report: 24 killed in South Sudan tribal violenceKHARTOUM, Sudan — An attack on a southern Sudan village has left 24 people dead, including a tribal chief, his three wives and several children, while dozens were wounded, a newspaper reported Saturday. The incident was the latest in a rising wave of tribal violence in South Sudan that has killed more than 2,000 people, including many women and children, and displaced another 250,000, according to the U.N.
Southern Sudanese tribes battle over cattle, leaving 46 people dead, says the UNSeptember 1st, 2009 UN: Tribal violence kills 46 people in south SudanKHARTOUM, Sudan — Tribesmen trying to steal cattle attacked a village in southern Sudan, sparking a conflict that killed 46 people, including seven soldiers, the U.N. said Monday.
Correction: Sudan-Violence storySeptember 1st, 2009 Correction: Sudan-Violence storyKHARTOUM, Sudan — In an Aug. 31 story about tribal violence in southern Sudan, The Associated Press erroneously quoted a U.N.
Gunmen kill 2, including army officer, in bowling alley in Mexican border cityAugust 23rd, 2009 Gunmen kill Mexican army officer in bowling alleyCIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Gunmen killed an army officer and another man in a bowling alley in Ciudad Juarez, a border city that has seen Mexico's highest levels of drug-related violence in recent years, police said Saturday. The assailants entered the Bol Bol bowling alley and shot to death army Capt.
Official: 185 people, mostly women and children, killed in a tribal attack in south SudanAugust 3rd, 2009 Official: 185 killed in Sudan tribal violenceCAIRO — Armed tribesmen attacked a fishing village in southeast Sudan where hundreds of displaced people were camped near a river, leaving at least 185 people, most of them women and children, dead in the worst violence in three months, a southern Sudan official said Monday. A flare-up of tribal clashes in south Sudan over cattle and territory has left more 1,000 people killed so far this year.
Official: 185 people, most of them women and children, killed in tribal attack in south SudanAugust 3rd, 2009 Official: Tribesmen kill 185 in Sudan villageCAIRO — Armed tribesmen attacked a fishing village in southeast Sudan where hundreds of displaced people were camped near a river, leaving at least 185 people, most of them women and children, dead in the worst violence in three months, a southern Sudan official said Monday. A flare-up of tribal clashes in south Sudan over cattle and territory has left more 1,000 people killed so far this year.
UN says fighting between tribes in southern Sudan increasingly targets women and childrenJuly 8th, 2009 UN: South Sudan fighting targets women, childrenKHARTOUM, Sudan — Fighting between tribes in southern Sudan has increasingly targeted women and children and likely killed more than 1,000 people since January, a senior U.N. official said Wednesday.
Gunmen kill priest, 2 seminarians in western Mexican state mired in drug violenceJune 16th, 2009 Gunmen kill priest, 2 seminarians in MexicoACAPULCO, Mexico — Gunmen ordered a priest and two seminarians out of their vehicle and shot them dead in a drug-plagued region of western Mexico, authorities said Monday. The three were killed as they drove through the town of Arcelia in Guerrero state to nearby Ciudad Altamirano to organize a spiritual retreat, said the Archbishop of Acapulco, Felipe Aguirre Franco.
Almost 250 people killed in 2 days of clashes between Arab tribes in western SudanMay 29th, 2009 Sudan: Almost 250 people killed in tribal clashesKHARTOUM, Sudan — Fighting between rival Arab tribes in western Sudan's oil-rich Kordofan region killed almost 250 people over two days earlier this week, including 75 policemen, Sudan's interior minister said. Tribal clashes over cattle grazing and water rights is common across Sudan, but the violence has grown worse over the years with the number of arms left over from the two-decade long civil war between the north and the south that ended in 2005.
Gunmen in drug-plagued Mexican state kill 9 people, shoot horsesMay 10th, 2009 Gunmen kill 9 in western Mexico, shoot horsesMORELIA, Mexico — Gunmen killed nine people in three separate attacks in the Mexico's drug-plagued western state of Michoacan, authorities said Sunday. The state attorney general's office said gunmen broke into a ranch in a rural area and shot dead five employees, along with four horses and a bull.
Gunmen kill Darfur peacekeeper during carjacking, 15th UN-AU peacekeeper killed since 2008May 8th, 2009 Gunmen kill Darfur peacekeeper during carjackingCAIRO — Gunmen shot and killed an unarmed peacekeeper outside his home in Sudan's war-ravaged Darfur region, the spokesman for the joint U.N.-African Union mission said Friday. The military observer, whose nationality and name were not released, was the 15th peacekeeper killed in Darfur since the mission began in January 2008 and the second since an international court issued an arrest warrant for Sudan's president for alleged war crimes in the remote western region.
UN warns that peace agreement ending Sudan's north-south civil war is at 'a critical stage'April 30th, 2009 UN warns Sudan peace accord at 'critical stage'UNITED NATIONS — The Security Council extended the 13,500-strong U.N. peacekeeping mission in southern Sudan for a year on Thursday, deploring the persistent violence in the region and warning that the 2005 peace agreement that ended two decades of fighting between the north and south is at "a critical stage."
The resolution adopted unanimously by the U.N.'s most powerful body stresses the importance of "full and expeditious implementation" of the peace deal, noting that key issues are still unresolved including the north-south boundary and the future of oil-rich Abyei, just north of the disputed border.
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