2 police officers killed by gunmen in Nigeria
LAGOS, Nigeria -; Authorities say unknown gunmen shot and killed two police officers in Nigeria after a radical Islamist sect engineered a prison break in a neighboring state. Niger state police ...
View ArticleMuseum chronicles African-American labor movement
Both were members of the nation's first chartered African-American labor union, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, organized in 1925 by civil rights activist A. Philip Randolph to take on ...
View ArticleA year after uprising, militias hold sway in Libya
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) -- One revolutionary militia controls the airport. Others carve up neighborhoods of the Libyan capital into fiefdoms. They clash in the streets, terrifying residents. They hold ...
View ArticleGuptill blasts Black Caps to victory against Proteas in first T20
Batsman Martin Guptill helped New Zealand to beat South Africa by six wickets in the first Twenty20 cricket international in Wellington on Friday.
View ArticlePakistan added to money-laundering countries blacklist
An international money-laundering watchdog has added Pakistan, Indonesia, Ghana, Tanzania and Thailand to its blacklist of nations that fail to meet international standards.
View ArticleSouth African Minister of women to join miniskirt march against rape
Minister of Women, Children and People with Disabilities Lulu Xingwana is set to take part in Friday's march to protest against assaults on women wearing miniskirts.
View ArticleNow, 'roaming' mobile robot that maps unknown territory
Researchers have come up with a mobile robot that can roam uncharted terrain and at the same time map it - all thanks to an algorithm toolbox.
View ArticleEx Pak coach Pybus
Former Pakistan cricket team coach Richard Pybus has reckoned that South African fast bowler Vernon Philander can succeed Makhaya Ntini as Proteas spearhead.
View ArticleUganda Warns Somali Leaders to Unite Ahead of Conference
Leaders from 40 nations will join politicians from Somalia at a conference in London next Thursday, to support the war-ravaged state in its effort to achieve social and political security. However, Ug
View ArticleECOWAS Ends Summit, Elects New Chairman
Over the course of its two-day summit in Abuja, the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, discussed the region's many crises, as well as its successes. On Friday, the confederation also e
View ArticleUnited Nations Votes to Extend Sudan Panel
The United Nations Security Council on Friday voted unanimously to extend the mandate of a panel of experts on Sudan sanctions for another year.
View ArticleExperts Tackling Education in Africa
How do you fix education in Africa, where students have far fewer opportunities than their counterparts in other parts of the world? There are two schools of thought on the subject: do you invest bott
View ArticleDRC Justice System Needs Reforms, Group Says
The U.S.-based Enough Project has called on the international community to help break what it calls the cycle of impunity in the Democratic Republic of Congo by supporting those who wish to reform the
View ArticleDemocratic future for Libya is within reach, Ban says on anniversary of...
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon marked today's one-year anniversary of the start of the Libyan revolution by calling on the North African country's people to work together to transition to a democracy f
View ArticleUN and partners ask for more funds for relief work
The United Nations agencies and their partners today requested $134 million to fund relief programmes for an estimated 1.9 million people affected by conflict in the Central African Republic (CAR) for
View ArticleUN envoy calls for closer ties with West African regional bloc
A senior United Nations official today called for closer ties between the UN and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to deal with threats and challenges to the region after the 15-m
View ArticleUN official partially certifies Ivorian parliamentary elections
The senior United Nations official in Cote d'Ivoire announced today the partial certification of legislative elections, saying the polls "constitute an important step in the entrenchment of democracy"
View ArticleBan to visit United Kingdom, Zambia and Angola next week
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will next week start a three-nation trip that will take him to the United Kingdom, where he will attend an international conference on the situation in Somalia, before pr
View ArticleUN envoy presses for more progress on revamping Liberian criminal justice system
A senior United Nations official today urged Liberians to redouble their efforts to revamp the West African country's criminal justice system, saying that while substantial progress has been made sinc
View ArticleDazzled by Morocco's desert city
City Slicker: Marrakech - The most exotic place you can reach within three hours from Britain? Amar Grover offers tips for new and returning ...
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