UN and US have condemned the 683 death sentences in Egypt
Minya - The United Nations and Washington have condemned death sentences handed to 683 alleged Islamists including Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie in an...
US to cut Nairobi embassy staff levels over terror threats
Nairobi: The United States said Saturday it was preparing cut staff levels at its Nairobi embassy because of the mounting threat of attacks in...
International Criminal Justice in Africa – It’s Not All About the...
Some 34 African states are members of the ICC, and all parties to the ICC's Rome Statute are accountable to its intentions to bring...
Ebola spreads to three countries
The World Health Organization has confirmed that an outbreak of the ebola virus that has killed 70 people in Guinea has spread to Liberia....
Boko Haram ‘to sell’ Nigeria girls abducted from Chibok
Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram has threatened to "sell" the hundreds of schoolgirls it abducted three weeks ago.
Militant leader Abubakar Shekau sent a...
IDLE BLACK FARMER LOSES LAND TO WHITE FARMER …
Zimbabwe - The High Court says beneficiaries of the land reform programme who are underutilising their land should have their offer letters withdrawn to...
Mugabe demands pay rise after daughter’s expensive wedding
After blowing about £3 million on his daughter’s wedding earlier this month, Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe says he wants a pay rise.
President Robert Mugabe,...
South Sudan cattle raid ‘claims dozens of lives’
Dozens of people have been killed in a cattle raid in South Sudan's northern Warrap state, local officials say.
Around 28 civilians died during the...
American spy planes fly over Nigeria in bid to find missing...
Last week, U.S. Undersecretary for Africa Linda Thomas-Greenfield told Reuters that Nigeria had requested surveillance and intelligence from the United States.
A Nigerian government official...
Tens of thousands of white families threatened by black mobs to...
Between Jan 21 to Feb 2 2014, tens of thousands of white families living, working and owning homes in two main South African towns...
22 killed in attack on Medecins Sans Frontieres hospital
Bangui, Central African Republic - At least 22 people including three staff members of medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres were killed during a weekend...
South Sudan faces ‘crisis levels of hunger’
War-torn South Sudan faces a catastrophic "tipping point" amid famine and genocide warnings, an aid agency has stated, as the conflict entered its fifth...
