UK spies will face criminal inquiry over Libya
FILE - In this Jan. 11, 2002 file photo, released by the U.S. Department of Defense, detainees wearing orange jump suits sit in a holding area as military police patrol during in-processing at the ...
View ArticleMorocco's elected government vies with king's men
FILE - This Jan. 3, 2012 photo released by the Moroccan Royal Palace, shows Morocco's King Mohammed VI, center, flanked by his son Moulay El Hassan, 6, and his Prime Minister, Abdelilah ...
View ArticleNigeria oil union threats production shutdown over subsidy strikes
LAGOS // A union representing 20,000 oil and gas workers in Nigeria threatened it would shut down all production starting on Sunday to take part in the crippling nationwide strike over spiralling ...
View ArticleSomalia Islamists force ICRC food aid suspension
GENEVA (Reuters) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Thursday it had suspended food distribution to 1.1 million people in central and southern Somalia after Islamist ...
View ArticleSomalia’s refugees return home to rebuild the country’s education...
VIDEO: UNICEF correspondent Eva Gilliam reports on a programme, designed by the European Union, UNICEF and partners, to rebuild Somalia's education system with the help of expatriate ...
View ArticlePirates attack Spanish navy ship off Somalia
MADRID (AP) — Spain says pirates have attacked a Spanish navy warship off Somalia, drawing gunfire that reportedly left one dead and prompted a helicopter chase in which six attackers were ...
View ArticleMississippi's first African-American Adjutant General
JACKSON, MS (WLBT) - Mississippi's first African-American Adjutant General was named Wednesday by Governor Phil Bryant. Augustus Leon Collins, 54, faces Senate confirmation, which is ...
View ArticleLebanon FM in Libya to discuss Imam Sadr’s disappearance
A Lebanese delegation headed by Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour arrived in Tripoli on Wednesday to discuss the the mysterious disappearance of Shiite Imam Moussa al-Sadr who went missing upon arrival ...
View ArticleOprah visits first graduating class of $40m school she founded
Oprah Winfrey took a trip to South Africa this week to meet the first graduating class of the school for girls she had opened in 2007.
View ArticleConfusion prevails over report of news agencies spying on Mandela
Confusion remained over completion of a South African police probe into allegations that two international news agencies spied on former president Nelson Mandela.
View ArticleWhen an army turns on its own people
"A dead rat is worth more than the body of a woman." Those were the words of one distraught young woman whom I met in Walikale in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in 2010.
View ArticleEthiopia-Somalia reminisce on bloody history
Centuries on, memories of Imam Ahmad Gragn still haunt both countries and echoes of that long and bloody history still ripple across the Horn of Africa region which considers Somalia the greatest ...
View ArticleNigeria's oil workers threaten to down tools
Nigerian oil workers threatened on Thursday to halt production as a strike over fuel prices in Africa's top crude exporter entered its fourth day and sectarian tensions simmered after deadly ...
View ArticleBishop Warns of Spreading Unrest
Khartoum - A Catholic bishop of Khartoum has warned of spreading unrest in South Sudan in a meeting with international Catholic pastoral charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN). Daniel Adwok Kur, ...
View ArticleNigeria megacity shows signs of strain amid strike
LAGOS, Nigeria — Market stalls and food sellers can only return to the streets at dusk to do business or else risk the wrath of angry demonstrators for breaking the nationwide strike. ATMs are ...
View ArticleUncapped Nando makes Angola squad
Nando Rafael has been included in Angola's Nations Cup squad but may not be able to play at this month's finals in Equatorial Guinea and ...
View ArticlePride and despair one year after revolt
The Arab Spring is one year old and they have been celebrating in the place where it all started – Tunisia. People gathered in Bourguiba Avenue in Tunis where protests against the then ...
View ArticleRiverton family embraces new life in Africa
A former Central Wyoming College music professor is now teaching music in the African nation of Malawi (mah-LAH'-wee). Lander native Kelly Dehnert says a thirst for adventure led him and his ...
View Article"No Going Back On N65 Petrol Price" -NLC
By SaharaReporters, New York The Nigeria Labour Congress has resolved to stick with its earlier position that the federal government of Nigeria revert to the old price of petrol or face continuation ...
View Article12,000 U.S. troops in Malta ready to descend into Libya
It is with great disappointment that I receive the news from foreign media publications and Libyan sources that our President now has 12,000 U.S. troops stationed in Malta and they are about to make ...
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