Toy soldiers at war

The Tanzanian soldiers dragged into Europe's war

A South Sudanese militia has released 280 child soldiers as the first step in a process to free 3,000, the UN's children agency said.

>That day they forced me to withdraw the remaining forces from Mutukula to Bigada. By the time we reached Bigada, everybody was trembling. This really weakened us. In early January 1979, my unit was relieved and went back to Masindi.

Times have really changed. The kind of life we used to live as children is very different from that of our offsprings today. So are the games that we used to play.

Bastian Schweinsteiger is considering taking legal action against a Hong Kong company making Nazi dolls that bear a striking resemblance to him.The Manchester United midfielder's management company put the matter into the hands of their German-based lawyers earlier this week.
The dolls, named 'World War II Army Supply Duty - Bastian', are made in China by Dragon in Dream.The company told German paper Bild any resemblance was "purely coincidental"."We don't sell any figures which resemble...

In My Book of Things, it’s never too late to take a bite or two at a mouth-watering cherry – especially one that’s invitingly dangled before one’s eyes! But, this time round, the cherry I have in mind isn’t the plum-like fruit of the ‘Prunus’ genus that’s so beloved of folk in ‘developed’ countries...

>Besides recapturing the Kagera Salient and driving Idi Amin out of Uganda, Tanzania’s second major success in the eight-month war lay in the organisation of its fighting force.

Islamist militants have killed 11 Algerian soldiers in an ambush on a patrol in mountains east of the capital Algiers, security sources say.

Kudos to our soldiers on peacekeeping missions
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IN the final lap of our independence struggle in the late 1960s, the pioneer of the self-rule crusade, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, made an all-important message that still rings to this day. The message had underlined the country's resolve to ensure peace, love ...