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Nigeria: Niger Delta rebel group hits Economic capital
The notorious rebel movement in Nigeria (Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta), has carried out an attack on an oil-tanker facility in...
Addis Ababa: ICC prosecutor condemns AU support for Bashir, appeals Sudan genocide case
Following the decision of the jury at the International Criminal Court (ICC) not to indict Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir for masterminding genocide in the...
Zimbabwe police “blood diamond” abuses continue as they ignore Kimberley Process
Zimbabwe's security establishment, the army and police on Friday refused to leave diamond fields where they are accused of human rights abuses. This comes...
Nigeria: Rebel activities likely continue after Henry Okah’s release
Rebel Kingpin of Nigeria's Niger Delta Henry Okah has agreed to call off his rebellion against the Nigerian government and walk free. Henry Okah...
Brutal killing of Egyptian in Germany ‘Islamophobic’ says head of Jewish group
Germany has broken its silence. A week after the murder of an Egyptian woman, Marwa El-Sherbini, in a German court, Angela Merkel is expected...
Chinese Kidnapping in Bakassi: Nigerian and Cameroonian rebels deny involvement
Nigeria's Niger Delta Militants have denied any involvement in the kidnapping of five Chinese fishermen in the Bakassi Peninsula, an area ceded by Nigeria...
U.S. National charged with sexual abuse while in Algeria
Andrew Warren, 41, has been charged in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia with one count of sexual abuse in Algeria within...
Kenyan victims of British torture camps seek reparations
Five veterans of the Mau Mau movement arrived last week in London to launch a complaint against the British government for acts of torture...
Nigeria: Gov’t prepared to do anything for peace in Niger Delta
The Nigerian government has resorted to utilizing every possible avenue to bring peace to the oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria. The government has...
South Africa-Mozambique: One man’s fight against human trafficking
A casual conversation in a Pretoria, South Africa, café launched a dangerous investigation by Inácio Sebastião Mussanhane, a lawyer from Mozambique who was studying...
Nigerian sailors seized by Somali pirates released
Nigerian sailors captured by Somalian pirates have been released after ten months in captivity. A group of government delegates have been dispatched to Yemen...
Guinea Bissau: Political killings unmask a top narco-state
Guinea-Bissau Military have killed presidential aspirant Mr. Baciro Dabo and former defense minister Helder Proenca, three weeks ahead of national polls. Ex-prime minister...
Several bodies of South African Zimbabwean miners recovered after mining disaster
South African authorities have recovered 61 bodies of illegal gold miners who died at the weekend at a disused gold mine. Tom Smith, head...
Somalia: Repentant pirate groups cite Islamic teachings
The leader of a Somali group of pirates, Mr. Abshir Abdullah, has assured Somalia and the international community that the era of pirate activities...
Nigeria: Mend destroys US oil giant, Chevron, pipelines
Only a week after a military operation to rescue foreign hostages, captured by Niger Delta militants, killed over a hundred people in the Niger...
Burundi: Traffickers in Albino human parts in Court
Eleven Burundians accused of albino killings were arraigned in court Tuesday. Their trial, which takes place at the Ruyigi court in Burundi, has...
Nigeria: Rebels reject offer, take 15 hostages, vow to shoot aircrafts
Foreign oil workers in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria have been ordered by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND)...
Military attack of Rebel cartel could destabilize Nigeria?
The Nigerian Military Joint Task force (JTF) went amok on rebels in the Niger Delta, in a bid to clamp down the miscreants, recover...
No peace until AU forces withdraw from Somalia?
The president of Somalia's transitional government, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, has said he is willing to talk to senior Islamist opposition leader Hassan Dahir...
Somali Pirates tricked into Sharia Law trap
The unprecedented show of support for the country’s fragile transitional government at an international donor conference in Brussels will go towards maintaining and enlarging...
Mali President hailed for Canadian hostage release
Malian President, Mr. Amadou Toumani Toure, has been hailed for his role in the release of kidnapped Canadian diplomats Robert Fowler and Louis Guay,...
Lesotho PM’s assassination attempt, suspects arrested
Lesotho Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili has escaped an assassination
attempt in the country's capital of Maseru.
According to reports from the tiny mountainous kingdom, on Wednesday
night...
Maersk set to review policies after Somali pirate attack
It emerged on Wednesday that pirates had attacked another US-flagged cargo ship off the coast of Somalia with rockets and automatic weapons, but failed...
Somali Pirates gripped by panick but remain motivated
Somalia’s pirates have been acting more nervously and co-operating more closely among themselves after Sunday’s killing of three of them by US navy snipers,...
Somali Pirates moving to counter US military action
An American navy warship and Somali pirates holding a US citizen hostage remained at a stand-off on Thursday amid signs that other pirate-held vessels...
Rwanda ’94: Grief and Pain mark remembrance day
It was 15 years ago, sometime in April, when Rwandans who had been divided against each other by their Belgian colonialist, suffered man-inhumanity-to-man. Blood...
Nigeria: Rebels raising their stock of kidnapped Britons
The most notorious Niger Delta rebel militia have kidnapped another Briton, adding to their list of British hostages, and they have sworn not to...
Threats or Amnesty: Nigerian President and Rebels react
Nigerian President, Umaru Yar'Adua has offered Niger Delta Militias in Nigeria a chance to be rehabilitated and reintegrated back into society if they put...
Zimbabwe: Police seek two armed women rapists
Two armed women in Zimbabwe kidnapped a man and held him for four days during which he was made to watch pornographic films,...
Rapists in northern Ivory Coast on the loose
Women in villages around Korhogo, 630 km north of Abidjan the capital of Côte d’Ivoire, dare not walk to their fields alone for fear...