Africa
Liberia shuts border crossings to curb spread of Ebola virus
The Liberian government on Sunday closed most of the West African nation’s border crossings and introduced stringent health measures to curb the...
French to repatriate Air Algérie crash victims
France is to repatriate the bodies of all 118 people, including 54 French nationals, who were aboard an Air Algerie plane that crashed in Mali.
World averts gaze as South Sudan famine threatens a million children
South Sudan’s food crisis is now the worst in the world, the UN Security Council said Friday as it called for urgent funding to step up deliveries...
Cameroon jails 14 Boko Haram members
A military court in Cameroon has handed down prison sentences of between 10 and 20 years to 14 Boko Haram members, the country’s state broadcaster...
'No survivors': Black box of Air Algerie plane carrying 116 people found
No one survived the crash of an Air Algerie flight over Mali, French President Francois Hollande has confirmed, adding that the plane’s black box...
Wreckage of Air Algerie plane carrying 116 people found in Mali
Authorities said on Thursday they located the wreckage of an Air Algerie flight after it crashed in northern Mali carrying 116 passengers and crew, nearly...
Clashes in Libya’s Benghazi kill at least nine; 50 dead in recent violence
At least nine people were killed and 19 wounded, mostly civilians, in heavy clashes overnight in Benghazi as government forces tried to oust Islamist militants...
France’s president vows to find site of Air Algerie plane crash that killed 116
President Francois Hollande vowed Thursday to deploy all of France’s military means in Mali, where it has hundreds of troops, to track down a missing...
Passenger plane carrying 116 ‘crashed’ after route change over West Africa
A passenger jet which vanished from radar over northern Mali in West Africa has crashed, says an Algerian aviation official.
Two bomb blasts in Nigeria’s Kaduna city kill 82; ex-leader targeted
At least 82 people were killed Wednesday in two bombings in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna targeting opposition leader and former President Muhammadu...
Nigerian president vows to free missing schoolgirls after meeting their parents
President Goodluck Jonathan has met for the first time some of the parents of 219 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls and dozens of classmates who managed to...
In three months since kidnappings, 11 parents of Nigeria’s abducted girls die
Nearly a dozen parents of the more than 200 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls will never see their daughters again.
Protection from poachers: South African park considers evacuating rhino
South Africa’s Kruger National Park is considering a plan to move some rhinos out of the flagship wildlife reserve in an attempt to protect them...
At least four killed as Islamists mount attack on Libyan airport
Heavy fighting erupted on Sunday around Tripoli International Airport, where rival militias have been battling for control, killing at least four people...
Uganda uses new tactics to flush out Kony’s dying army
The three fighters from Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army who defected last month were carrying knives, ropes, tarpaulins, AK-47s, and gun...
Kenyan coast tense, divided amid massacre whodunnit
More than a month after attackers stormed into a Kenyan town and executed dozens of residents, lingering uncertainty over exactly who was responsible has...
Warring militia at Tripoli airport agree to truce
Powerful militia battling for control of the Libyan capital’s airport have agreed on a ceasefire, Tripoli’s mayor said.
The truce was confirmed...
Egypt sentences seven men to life for Tahrir Square sexual assaults
Seven Egyptian men were jailed for life on Wednesday for attacking and sexually harassing women during rallies and celebrations in Cairo’s Tahrir...
Death toll from West Africa Ebola outbreak jumps to 603
The death toll in West Africa’s Ebola outbreak has risen to 603, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday, with 68 new fatalities mostly...
'Chief Butcher' of Boko Haram arrested in Nigeria's northeast
Nigerian police said they arrested a senior Boko Haram Islamist commander known as “Chief Butcher” during a raid on an insurgent camp in the...
Oscar Pistorius denies he was involved in a ‘bar brawl’ with businessman
Oscar Pistorius has denied claims he was involved in a “bar brawl” in a nightclub days after the final evidence was heard in his murder trial.
U.N. mission temporarily pulls out of Libya amid clashes
The United Nations on Monday pulled its staff out of Libya temporarily because of deteriorating security after rival militias fought over Tripoli International...
Pistorius breaks Twitter silence by describing his ‘utter desolation’
Oscar Pistorius has broken his silence on social media by posting a string of religious messages.
Crocodile on a plane: Reptile ‘may have caused crash’ that killed 19
An escaped crocodile may have caused a plane crash in the Congo which killed 19 people, an inquest has heard.
African Ebola death toll now over 500 after ‘deadliest outbreak ever’
Ebola continues to spread in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, with a combined 44 new cases and 21 deaths between July 6 and 8, the World Health Organisation...
Nine militants killed in attack on Somalia’s presidential palace
Somalia’s Islamist al-Shabaab rebels carried out a major bomb and armed assault against the country’s presidential palace late Tuesday, penetrating...
Thousands rally in Kenya against president’s rule, demand troop withdrawal
Thousands of people rallied Monday in Kenya’s capital against President Uhuru Kenyatta’s rule, with some calling for him to step down because...
Prosecutors say Pistorius defence witness ‘too close to athlete to be credible’
Prosecutors have claimed the evidence of a key defence witness in the Oscar Pistorius murder trial is not credible.
Great escape: Dozens of kidnapped women flee Boko Haram captors
More than 60 Nigerian women and girls who were abducted last month by suspected Boko Haram militants have escaped their captors, according to reports.
Malawi pardons 403 prisoners to mark 50 years of independence
Malawi’s new President Peter Mutharika pardoned 403 prisoners on Saturday ahead of celebrations to mark 50 years since the country gained independence...
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