Four killed, tens injured in Mogadishu wedding blast
Four people have been killed after a bomb explosion hit a village in the south of the Somali capital, Mogadishu. The incident occurred on Thursday when a massive blast ripped...
26 killed, scores injured in clashes in ex-Gaddafi bastion
At least 26 people have been killed and scores of others injured in clashes in a stronghold of former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi in northwestern Libya. On Saturday, a battle...
3 Catholic priests kidnapped in eastern Congo
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - Congolese civic leaders say that three Roman Catholic priests were kidnapped in eastern Congo. The three priests were taken captive from their monastery by about 10...
Gaddafi’s youngest son killed during fighting in Bani Walid: Libya
The youngest son of the slain Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi has allegedly been killed in a battle in the northwestern city of Bani Walid, the country’s National Congress says. The...
Guinea-Bissau blames Portugal and ex-premier for Bissau’s attack
Guinea-Bissau's authorities have blamed Portugal and country’s ex-Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Junior for an attack on the barracks of an elite unit in Bissau. "The government considers Portugal, the Community...
NEWSMAKER: Kabarebe, Rwanda and Congo’s killing fields
Paul Kagame’s RPF, in what James Traub describes in Foreign Policy as a “typical episode,†“kidnapped refugees, many of them women and children, and brought them to a camp, allegedly...
While many Libyans celebrated the ‘death’ of Khamis, some say the government is diverting attention from the relentless shelling of Bani Walid.
TRIPOLI, LIBYA—The seventh and youngest son of Muammar Gaddafi, Khamis, was reported killed Saturday, for the second time in just over a year. According to the spokesman of Libya’s Parliament—and a...
SAfrican photographer who depicted apartheid dies
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Alfred Kumalo, a South African photographer whose work chronicled the brutalities of apartheid and the rise of Nelson Mandela, died of renal failure in a Johannesburg hospital...
Marburg Virus Reaches Uganda’s Capital Kampala
A woman walks on July 31, 2012 near the entrance to the Mulago Hospital in Kampala, where one person who contracted the deadly Ebola virus died. Uganda's president on July...
Africa: 3 plotted to poison president
COTONOU, Benin (AP) — Benin's state prosecutor says that the president's doctor and his niece were part of a failed plot to poison the leader of the West African nation...