Violence escalates in Nigeria
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Authorities say at least four people have been killed in two attacks on outside beer gardens in Nigeria. Adamawa police commissioner Ade Shinaba said Saturday that ...
View ArticleMilitary plane crashes in western Sudan, 6 dead
KHARTOUM, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- Six crew members were killed when a military plane crashed Friday after taking off at an airport in western Sudan, the official news agency ...
View ArticleFormer colonel under Kadhafi appointed chief of Libya' new army
A former colonel in Moamer Kadhafi's military has been appointed as the new chief of staff of the Libyan army, two members of the country's ruling National Transitional Council told AFP on ...
View ArticleAU forces to investigate Somalia mosque attack
An African Union soldier serving with the Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) stands guard in Mogadishu in December 2011. African Union troops in Somalia's war-torn capital will investigate an attack ...
View ArticleAmericans rise in rank inside Somalia jihadi group
FILE - In this Wednesday, May 11, 2011 file photo, American-born Omar Hammami, 27, also known as Abu Mansur al-Amriki, right, and deputy leader of al-Shabab Sheik Mukhtar Abu Mansur Robow, left, sit ...
View ArticleSouth Africa beat Sri Linka with five wickets
Half-centuries from Hashim Amla and JP Duminy led South Africa to a five-wicket victory over Sri Lanka in the second one-day international at Buffalo Park on ...
View ArticleLagos Ports Remain Closed
Leaders at the Lagos ports on Saturday stood their grounds, saying that the ports should remain closed until the strike is called off. Mr Oladimeji May, District Chairman, Maritime Workers' ...
View ArticleNation Marks Year After Ben Ali's Exit
Hundreds of Tunisians turned out in central Tunis to demand jobs and dignity Saturday as the north African country marked a year to the day since its despot Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled into exile. ...
View ArticleViolence escalates in Nigeria
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Authorities say at least four people have been killed in two attacks on outside beer gardens in Nigeria. Adamawa police commissioner Ade Shinaba said Saturday that ...
View ArticleGhobash attends Tunisia's first 14th January Revolution anniversary...
WAM Tunis, Jan 14th, 2012 (WAM)--Saqr Ghobash, Minister of Labour, who is representing President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, attended in Carthage on Friday the banquet hosted by ...
View ArticleDozens of Bodies Removed From Graves
Balat-Weyn - Dozens of bodies that killed by Al-shabaab militants in Beled-wayn town in central Somalia have been detached from graves on the town, reports say. Sources from Belet-weyn say that ...
View ArticleGunmen Kill Four in Two Attacks
The Adamawa Police Command on Saturday confirmed the killing of two persons in a beer parlour by unidentified gunmen in Wuro-Hausa area of Yola. The Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Altine ...
View ArticleHuman traffickers stalk Eritreans like 'goats' in Sudan desert
Internally displaced people wait for food distribution in Pibor, South Sudan's Jonglei state, on January 12, 2012. Moving at night through the cold, flat desert, armed people smugglers are ...
View ArticleAlgeria Is Keen to Revive Arab Maghreb, Says President Bouteflika
Algiers, Jan. 14. (BNA) - Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has reiterated his country's strong resolve to revive the Great Arab Maghreb and turn the region into a hub of stability, ...
View ArticleSouth Africa shuffles deck to find winner against Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka despite an unbeaten 92 from Dinesh Chandimal in the second one-day international in East London on Saturday. Chandimal hit six fours in his 115-ball knock to help the tourists to 236 for ...
View ArticleOn Arab Spring anniversary, Ban commends Tunisians for progress achieved
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has commended the people of Tunisia for the progress achieved since the start of their revolution one year ago, and pledged the continuing support of the United Nations ...
View ArticleTunisia marks 1st anniversary of Arab Spring
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) -- Masses of Tunisians marched in peaceful triumph Saturday to mark the one-year anniversary of the revolution that ended the dictatorship of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali - and ...
View ArticleNew railway planned to boost Lamu-Sudan link
The government plans to extend the Nairobi-Nanyuki railway line to Isiolo so as to link the planned Lamu-South Sudan railway line and open up the ...
View ArticleFresh Congo election crisis looms
Veteran opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi (R), who has rejected Joseph Kabila's re-election as the Democratic Republic of Congo's president, holds his own "swearing in" ...
View ArticleMSF confirms killing of two foreign employees in Somalia
Medina Hospital staff roll a wounded Doctors Without Borders (MSF) foreign aid worker on a stretcher after a Somali gunman opened fire on an MSF compound on December 29, 2011 in Mogadishu, Somalia. ...
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