50 Soldiers killed in Kidal, Mali fighting against Tuareg separatist
Bamako - 50 Malian soldiers died this week during a failed army attempt to seize the Tuareg separatist northern town of Kidal, the West...
Journalist shot and killed in Libya – Benghazi
Benghazi - A newspaper editor and critic of Libyan jihadists was shot and murdered on Monday in the lawless eastern city of Benghazi, an...
The Curse of CAR: Warlords, Blood Diamonds, and Dead Elephants
To end the hideous civil war in the Central African Republic, sanctions against leaders may help, but we also have to stop the trade...
French forces fight Muslim rebels in a Central African Republic town
French peacekeeping troops in Central African Republic used helicopter gunships and mortars on Saturday to fight Muslim rebels at a bridge in the town...
18 dead in Shabaab attack on Somali parliament
Mogadishu - More than 18 people were killed Saturday in an attack by radical Islamist group al-Shabaab on the Somali parliament, security officials said.
The...
Deadly bomb attack at Djibouti restaurant kills 2
Addis Ababa - At least two people were killed late on Saturday in a bomb attack on a restaurant popular with Westerners in central...
Al-Shabaab militants attack parliament building in Somalia
Mogadishu - A Somali police captain says a car bomb exploded outside parliament and security forces killed other militants in a largely foiled attack.
Captain...
Somalia capital, Mogadishu hit by huge bombings
Mogadishu - Two huge blasts were heard in the Somali capital Mogadishu in a compound housing the country's parliament on Saturday, Reuters witnesses and...
CFU urges investigation of farm murders since 2000
Charles Taffs, the Commercial Farmers’ Union (CFU) president, today urged the police to investigate murders that have taken place on farms since the start...
Kenyan grenade attack on a police vehicle wounds two in Mombasa
An attacker threw a grenade at a police vehicle in Kenya's port city of Mombasa on Thursday, wounding an officer and a civilian, a...
Even farming is sin, as Boko Haram kills 29 farmers
Suspected gunmen belonging to Boko Haram sect shot dead 29 farm workers as they tilled their fields in remote northeast Nigeria, a police source...
Britain speaks on killing of Zimbabwean white farmer
British Ambassador to Zimbabwe Deborah Bronnert has described the fatal attack on Guruve white farmer Malcolm Francis and his daughter Catherine as horrific and...
