Nigeria's Boko Haram Blackmailing State Governors
247ureports.com that Boko Haram concluded financial agreements with some of the country's northern governor in return for not attacking their provinces. The source said Malam Shekarau, the ...
View ArticleCanada deports Rwanda war crimes suspect
Quebec Superior Court [official website] judge ruled that the court did not have jurisdiction to rule on immigration cases. Mugesera, who has been fighting deportation from Canada since 1995, is a ...
View ArticleA show trial for Saif Gaddafi would only promote discord in Libya | Polina...
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi remains in detention, held by the Zintan militia who captured him two months ago. On Monday, Ali Humaida Ashour, the Libyan justice ...
View ArticleBlast destroys police station in north Nigeria
Policemen inspect a bomb site at the police headquarters in Nigeria's northern city of Kano January 22, 2012, after a bomb attack on Friday. Gun and bomb attacks by Islamist insurgents in the ...
View ArticleTruck bomb explodes at Ethiopian base in Somalia
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- A truck bomb targeted an Ethiopian military base inside Somalia on Tuesday, and Islamist militants claimed responsibility for the ...
View ArticleTeargas used on protesters in Uganda
Police fired tear gas at protesters after they started throwing stones following an unsuccessful attempt by a plainclothes security agent to drag Besigye into a waiting van, an AFP photographer at ...
View ArticleSouth Sudan blames Khartoum for strike
Geneva/Juba - An air strike on a refugee camp near South Sudan's border with Sudan wounded one boy and left 14 people missing on Monday, the United Nations refugee agency ...
View ArticleFamine looms in troubled Sudan region
Washington - The United States fears a large-scale famine in Sudan's restive border states of Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile and is boosting pressure in Khartoum to accept aid or face a ...
View ArticleMensah scores winner for Ghana
Ghana's Andre Ayew (left) consoles John Mensah after the captain's red card during their African Cup of Nations Group D soccer match against Botswana in FranceVille ...
View ArticleViolence in Libya sparks public anger
Yet the violence, 150km south of the capital, was also symptomatic of major obstacles to Libyan hopes of a rapid transition to peace, democracy and oil-fuelled ...
View ArticleRwanda genocide suspect Mugesera deported from Canada
Leon Mugesera, a Rwandan man who has been fighting expulsion from Canada since 1995 for his alleged role in the Rwandan genocide, is transported on a stretcher to the hospital by paramedics as he ...
View ArticleKenya Sets Up Legal Team to Help Respond to ICC
The Kenyan government has put together a team of 10 lawyers to advise it on how to respond to Monday's ruling by the International Criminal Court. The court said four prominent Kenyans - including the
View ArticleUS Urging Nigerians to Unite Against Boko Haram
The United States is urging Nigerians to stand united against "enemies of civility and peace" in the radical Muslim sect Boko Haram. U.S. counter-terrorism officials are in Nigeria after attacks Frida
View ArticleZimbabwe Public Servants Strike Fails
Zimbabwe's public service unions' attempted one-day strike appeared to fizzle Thursday, with most workers reporting for duty. However, union leaders are still hailing the action as a success, and stil
View ArticleFresh attack on police in troubled Nigeria's Kano city
KANO, Nigeria: Gunmen opened fire and threw explosives at a police station in the Nigerian embattled city of Kano on Tuesday, residents said, four days after coordinated bombings and shootouts ...
View ArticleGhana, Mali edge opening wins
Ghana are, alongside Côte d'Ivoire, carrying the tag of favourites on their shoulders and they duly earned the three points with a 1-0 win in their Group D clash ...
View ArticleTurkey offers Libya $250 million in loan
Economy Minister Zafer aglayan speaks at the Turkey-Libya Business Forum in Tripoli yesterday, supporting Libya as a strategic investment location. Turkey's Eximbank has decided to ...
View ArticleNo-hoper co-host Guinea on verge of glory at Nations Cup
Supporters of the Senegalese national football team cheer in the stands during a training session yesterday on the eve of their match against Equatorial Guinea. AFP photo Equatorial Guinea is ...
View ArticleCareer Diplomat with Africa Experience Tapped For Haiti by Obama
President Barack Obama has nominated Ambassador Pamela Ann White, a career diplomat with more than 35 years public service experience mostly in Africa, as the United States' next ambassador to ...
View ArticleFours Years On IDPs Remain in Camps
RIFT VALLEY, Kenya, Jan 24, 2012 (IPS) - Six-year-old Victor Muruga points to a hole in the bush that he calls his "bedroom". "I sleep there, under that tree and my mother sleeps ...
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