Michael Buerk returns to Zimbabwe
Under the right wing of the plane is his own lost paradise; the family tobacco farm, gone in a morning. It had been the...
Dallaire: Canada must act in Central African Republic to avoid another...
BANGUI, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC — He was 12 years old when his older brother was shot dead, 14 when a militia recruited him, fed...
Uncovered: The macabre sex chamber of Libya’s Colonel Gaddafi
Gaddafi’s victims include hundreds of teenage girls who, throughout his 42-year reign, were beaten, raped and forced to become his sex slaves.
IT has been...
500 African Migrants Enter Spanish Enclave in Major Border Storming –...
Some 500 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa forced their way into the Spanish enclave of Melilla from Morocco on Tuesday in one of the biggest...
Tk-Mukosi victims demand seized farms
FORMER Tokwe-Mukosi villagers have demanded to be resettled on more decent land in order to rebuild their livelihoods, accusing the country's governing elite of...
Kenya police intercept bomb-laden vehicle
Nairobi - Kenyan police intercepted a car packed with explosives, foiling a planned terrorist attack in the coastal city of Mombasa, authorities said on...
Uganda gets skirty over ‘indecent’ clothing
Ethics and Integrity Minister Simon Lokodo raised the measure which seeks to lower the miniskirt last year by advocating that women who wore skirts...
‘Anti-homosexuals apartheid’ in Cameroon
Berlin - Cameroon is suffering under an "anti-homosexuals apartheid", says lawyer Alice Nkom, who has spent a decade defending gays and lesbians in the...
Muslims trapped in PK12 camp in Bangui, Central African Republic –...
Massacre by Christian vigilante squads calling themselves anti-balaka looms in ghetto but there is no safe way to evacuate residents.
Nigeria attacks: 100 killed in attacks on villages in Kaduna
At least 100 villagers have been killed in Nigeria's central Kaduna state in attacks linked to disputes between ethnic groups, officials say. Heavily armed...
Nigeria jobseeker stampede turns deadly
At least seven people were killed and dozens more were injured in Nigeria's capital Abuja after thousands of panicked jobseekers stampeded during a government...
The way things are … in Africa
Namibian citizen, Pashu Shuudi writes: ALTHOUGH hard to swallow, us black people despise everything that looks like us. To prove my point, not so...
