Somali pirates marauding the East African coastline will now find it hard to hijack ships sailing along the Indian Ocean waters following a new agreement between Tanzania and Kenya to safeguard a greater area of the continental shelf. The two neighbouring East African states are at the same time finalising... » read this article

Signatories to the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) - an international initiative to stem the flow of conflict diamonds - restated their commitment to the scheme at the close of a three-day meeting in Namibia on 26 June, but campaigners warned that more action, not talk, was needed now. "There... » read this article

Resistance forces control large sections of the country; Ethiopian troops re-enter A worsening security situation in Somalia has prompted the US-backed Transitional Federal Government (TFG) to declare a state of emergency and issue a call for military support from both neighboring countries as well as the "international community." Attacks on... » read this article

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An ongoing struggle between the Federal Government and the people of the Niger Delta in the west African nation of Nigeria  has reached a new level in the aftermath of the May 13 military operation in the oil-producing region. The Movement for the  Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has... » read this article

Sponsored by Care2 Penguins, albatrosses, killer whales and of course people can all jump for joy at the latest news from the Republic of South Africa! The country is set to establish one of the world's largest Marine Protected Areas (MPA) around its Prince Edward Islands. This inspiring achievement will help... » read this article

Editor's Note: Important written updates on the Wiwa v. Shell trial follow this video. - LMB Update, June 3, 2009: The court hearing scheduled for today, June 3, 2009, has been canceled by Chief Judge Kimba Wood. The court order can be found on the Attend the Trial page of... » read this article

A newly reconfigured Transitional Federal Government established during early 2009 in Somalia has loss control of large areas  of the country to the al-Shabab and Hisbul Islam resistance organizations. On May 17 and 18, the towns of Jowhar and Mahaday, north of the capital Mogadishu, fell to al-Shabab. These developments... » read this article

1 May 2009 The use of force April 10 to recover five French hostages held off the Somali coast, on the yacht, the Tanit, demonstrates the contempt of the Nicolas Sarkozy government for the lives of the French hostages and the Somali pirates, as well as for French and Somali... » read this article

Thousands of Kenyans are registering themselves as refugees to benefit from food  rations as the hunger crisis bites, a report shows. However, they are unable to obtain Kenyan identity cards so the report proposes that  their cases be considered favourably. As many as 4,000 Kenyans are said to have been... » read this article

Radio Daljir By Mohamed Abshir Waldo Jan. 08, 2009 THE SHIPPING PIRACY & THE INVASION OF THE SOMALI SEAS Much of the world’s attention is currently focused on the Somali sea lanes. The navies of big and small powers are converging on the Somali waters in the Gulf of Aden... » read this article

K’naan (Keinaan, meaning traveller in Somali, born 1978) is a poet and hip-hop artist from Somalia. Born in Mogadishu, at age 13 he left for New York City with his mother and brother and finally settled in Rexdale, Ontario, Canada. Read his views of the Somali pirates as shared with... » read this article

(Photos added to Abayomi Azikiwe's excellent analysis by Axis of Logic)     Apr 13, 2009 After the execution of three Somalis and the wounding and capturing of another in the Indian Ocean on April 12, a leader of the so-called pirates vowed to avenge the deaths of these youth... » read this article

K'naan, an activist, poet, and rap artist originally from Somalia, shares his views of the Somali pirates with Michael Vazquez, editor of URB. Can anyone ever really be for piracy?  Outside of sea bandits, and young girls fantasizing of Johnny Depp, would anyone with an honest regard for good human... » read this article

An investigation into the murder of Ilaria Alpi who was investigating arms trafficking and the illegal disposal of toxic waste off the coasts of Somalia. (Report and Photos below the video) Somalia’s secret dumps of toxic waste washed ashore by tsunami Source:Timesonline From Jonathan Clayton in Johannesburg THE huge waves... » read this article

A landmark human rights lawsuit, accusing Royal Dutch Shell of complicity in the execution of author and human rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa some 14 years ago, will proceed to trial in a New York courtroom. The Center for Constitutional Rights and Earth Rights International, along with Mr.  Wiwa's son, allege... » read this article

Vanguard correspondents Christof Putzel and Kaj Larsen first ventured to Somalia in the summer of 2006 during a brief period of fragile stability. They discovered that peace reigned in the capital for a few weeks after 15 years of bloody civil war in what the world labeled a failed state.... » read this article

Biography of Credo Mutwa I was born in Zululand on the 21st July 1921 according to my father. When my father met my mother, he had just lost his wife and a number of children in a terrible influenza epidemic, which had spread through Southern Africa, killing thousands of people... » read this article

Which Way America?    Unless there is a fundamental change in America's policies towards Africa, the continent will not gain much from the in-coming US government. Many people of African descent are anticipating that when Barack Obama becomes the 44th President of the United States of America, the fortunes of... » read this article

A Virtual Home to all Eritreans and Friends of Eritrea around the World!: Piracy in the Red Sea: Saudi points towards Israel Piracy in the Red Sea: Saudi points towards Israel “The aims of the Zionist enemy in the Red Sea have never ceased,” wrote the Islamist cleric on his... » read this article