Africa
Boko Haram attacks school in Nigeria critically injuring six people
A gunman opened fire on students after walking into a high school in Nigeria critically injuring six people, witnesses said. The gunman, who was caught...
In Burundi, youth find their voice as president clings to power
Burundi’s protesters want to stop President Pierre Nkurunziza from seeking a third term because they see him as a repressive, divisive leader incapable...
Sexual violence, unreported rapes another legacy of the war in Somalia
Sexual violence is widespread in Somalia and rarely prosecuted. If anyone is punished at all it is often the victim, not the perpetrator.
‘No room’ for gays in Kenya, says deputy president
Kenya’s deputy president has said there is “no room” for homosexuality in Kenyan society, a widely-shared view in African countries that...
Community leaders: Nigerian troops kill dozens of civilians
Community leaders and residents accused Nigerian troops on Sunday of killing dozens of civilians and razing homes to avenge the deaths of six soldiers. Traditional...
Nigeria’s freed women and girls get food and medical care
Hundreds of girls and women, many bewildered and traumatised, are being registered, fed and given medical care in their first day out of Nigeria’s...
First group of rescued women brought to safety in Nigeria
The first group of nearly 300 Nigerian girls and women released from Boko Haram were brought by the military to the safety of a refugee camp in the country’s...
Nigeria: 1st group of released females brought to safety
The first group of nearly 300 Nigerian girls and women released from Boko Haram were brought by the military to the safety of a refugee camp in the country’s...
Nigerian military: 234 girls, women rescued from extremists
Nigeria’s military rescued 234 more girls and women from a Boko Haram forest stronghold in the country’s northeast, an announcement on social...
Russia: UN Security Council should stay out of Burundi dispute
Russia said on Friday the United Nations Security Council should not intervene in Burundi’s constitutional dispute that has sparked the biggest political...
France’s Hollande vows no mercy to soldiers if African child abuse proven
President Francois Hollande vowed on Thursday to make an example of any French troops found guilty of child sex abuse in Central African Republic as an...
More women and children freed in Nigeria from extremists
Scores more women and children have been rescued from Islamic extremists in the remote Sambisa Forest, Nigeria’s military said amid reports that...
France investigating alleged sexual abuse by its troops in C.Africa
France is investigating allegations that its peacekeepers sexually abused children in the Central African Republic after a leaked UN report said victims...
Thailand seizes three tons of elephant tusks smuggled from Kenya
Thailand seized 3 tons of ivory hidden in tea leaf sacks from Kenya in the second-biggest bust in the country’s history, one week after the biggest...
Thailand seizes 3 tons of elephant tusks smuggled from Kenya
Thailand seized 3 tons of ivory hidden in tea leaf sacks from Kenya in the second-biggest bust in the country’s history, one week after the biggest...
UN chief, Italy PM, EU’s Mogherini in symbolic Med sea trip
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini will board a navy ship in the Mediterranean...
Burundi opposition calls for even bigger protests on Monday
Opponents of a bid by Burundi’s president to seek a contested third term in office on Sunday called for even bigger street protests after a day of...
Burundi riot police disperse protests against president’s third term
Two protestors have been shot dead during clashes with police in the capital of Burundi, witnesses said on Sunday.
South Africa to deploy army to end anti-immigrant attacks
South African soldiers will be deployed to quell anti-immigrant violence that has killed at least seven people in several weeks of unrest, Defence Minister...
South Africa to deploy army to quell anti-immigrant attacks
South African soldiers will be deployed in some areas of Johannesburg to quell anti-immigrant violence that has killed at least seven people in several...
Foreigners tell of being ‘hunted like dogs’ in South Africa
Foreigners fleeing xenophobic violence in South Africa told Tuesday of how they escaped marauding death mobs and vowed never to return to the country where...
Ethiopia in mourning after IS beheads more than 20 Christians
Ethiopia will on Tuesday begin three days of national mourning for more than 20 Ethiopian Christians killed by Islamic State militants in Libya.
I was misquoted: Zulu King denies causing anti-immigrant attacks
South Africa’s Zulu king has denied whipping up xenophobic hatred after he was accused of sparking violence that has left at least seven people dead. Goodwill...
Al-Shebab detonates bomb on UN employee bus in Somalia
At least six UN workers were killed in Somalia on Monday when a bomb destroyed their bus in the northeastern town of Garowe.
Islamic State video appears to show murder of Ethiopian Christians
The Islamic State jihadist group has released a video purportedly showing the slaughter of around 30 Ethiopian Christians in Libya.
Zuma cancels state trip as xenophobic violence in S. Africa spreads
President Jacob Zuma on Saturday pleaded with foreigners to stay in South Africa as he cancelled a state visit to Indonesia to deal with a wave of deadly...
20 burn victims rescued at sea amid growing migrant crisis
The unabated flow of refugees fleeing instability in Libya brought a new horror on Friday: The discovery of 20 people adrift at sea who had suffered grave...
South Africa attacks on foreigners spark anger abroad
Countries neighbouring South Africa on Friday prepared to evacuate their citizens from the country as the UN raised the alarm over deadly xenophobic attacks...
UN envoy to Yemen resigns after criticism of failed peacemaking
U.N. special adviser to Yemen Jamal Benomar plans to step down from his job and U.N.
A look at EU’s handling of the Mediterranean migrant influx
The feared drowning of 400 migrants in a shipwreck this week in the Mediterranean Sea — one of the deadliest such tragedies in the last decade —...
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