Red Cross worker killed in Central African Republic
BANGUI (Reuters) - A Red Cross worker was killed on Saturday in the north of the Central African Republic, amid escalating religious violence that...
Nigeria falls into ‘a state of war’ as Islamist insurgency rages
More than 1,300 people have died in the past two months as an insurgent Islamist group, Boko Haram, wages a rebellion rooted in poverty,...
Suicide car bomber rocks Somalia’s presidential palace
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - A suicide car bomber attacked the Somali presidential palace in Mogadishu on Friday, triggering a massive explosion, before about 10...
International court convicts Congolese warlord Katanga of war crimes
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – The International Criminal Court on Friday handed down the second conviction in its 12-year history, finding former Congolese...
Sudan: Al-Bashir Resumed Genocide in Darfur … – Genocide Watch
Sudan: Al-Bashir Resumed Genocide in Darfur Despite His National Dialogue Lies All Africa, By Mahmoud A. Suleiman 3 MARCH 2014. Opinion. This article comes...
The Central African Republic’s complex war, explained in the journey of...
It is a conflict so vicious that U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has warned it could spiral into genocide and effectively partition the country. This...
Egyptian Christians found executed on Libyan beach
Tripoli - Libyan police have found seven Egyptian Christians shot dead on a beach in eastern Libya, security officials and local residents said on...
Violent clashes flare up in Egypt
Cairo - Three people were killed and 28 wounded on Friday in Egypt as Islamist protesters clashed with security forces and civilian opponents, the...
More Than 300,000 Face Famine in Mozambique
Mozambique agriculture minister Jose Pacheco says that more than 300,000 people in the southern African state face famine this year. Speaking on state radio...
‘Zim’s only reserves are $500 000 of gold coins’
Cape Town - Zimbabwean Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa has highlighted the parlous state of the country’s finances, revealing Zimbabwe’s reserves would only be enough...
Thousands of Mozambicans displaced by fighting
Maputo - Mozambican Prime Minister Alberto Vaquina says attacks by the opposition party and former rebel movement Renamo have displaced more than 6 000...
Nigeria says 20 Insurgents killed as schools shut after massacres –...
Nigeria's military today said that it had killed 20 Islamist insurgents in the restive northeast, as schools were shut in the region to prevent...
