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Security Council wants UN peacekeepers in Somalia
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5.15.2008 : 8:28 pm
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UNITED NATIONS -- The Security Council unanimously approved a resolution on Thursday calling for a U.N. political presence in conflict-wracked Somalia for the first time in years and setting conditions for the deployment of U.N. peacekeepers.
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Moroccan court broadens terrorism investigations
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5.15.2008 : 7:08 pm
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RABAT, Morocco -- A Moroccan court broadened investigations Thursday into two alleged terrorism cells, one accused of supporting insurgents in Iraq and the other of plotting suicide bombings in Casablanca last year.
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Clashes lead UN to pull staff from Sudan oil area
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5.15.2008 : 6:05 pm
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KHARTOUM, Sudan -- The United Nations said Thursday it had evacuated 250 civilian staff from the town of Abyei following three days of clashes in the oil-rich region between Sudan's army and former southern rebels.
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Iraqi forces mount al-Qaida hunt in Mosul
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5.15.2008 : 5:54 pm
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BAGHDAD -- U.S. and Iraqi troops moved against al-Qaida on two separate fronts Thursday, with house-to-house searches in Mosul and an operation in the desert to stanch the flow of insurgents and weapons to that northern city.
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Red Cross: Nigeria pipe fire kills 100
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5.15.2008 : 4:53 pm
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IJEGUN, Nigeria -- A road-grader accidentally tore open a fuel pipeline Thursday and sent an inferno raging over houses and a school, setting off a stampede of terrified children and killing about 100 people and injuring 20, a Red Cross official said.
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Algeria issues rare kidnapping tally
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5.15.2008 : 4:27 pm
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ALGIERS, Algeria -- Algeria recorded 115 kidnappings last year "relating to terrorism" or involving demands for ransom, the interior minister said Thursday in a rare public tally of abductions.
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Kenya charges 2 Chinese citizens over ivory haul
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5.15.2008 : 2:35 pm
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NAIROBI, Kenya -- Police charged a Chinese man and woman with illegally possessing about 240 pounds of ivory and trying to fly it out of Kenya, an officer said Thursday.
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Rights group: 800,000 evicted in Nigeria
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5.15.2008 : 6:36 am
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria -- Some 800,000 residents were forcibly evicted from their homes in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, over a four-year period to make way for development in the fast-growing city, a rights group said Thursday.
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Top UN official warns of increasing Darfur violence
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5.14.2008 : 8:35 pm
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UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. peacekeeping chief warned Wednesday of an alarming increase in violence in Darfur that has spread to the Sudanese capital and could escalate further.
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S.African mobs attack Zimbabweans, other outsiders
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5.14.2008 : 6:29 pm
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Mob violence against Zimbabweans and other foreigners this week has killed at least two people and injured about 60 in an impoverished Johannesburg neighborhood, authorities said Wednesday.
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Witness: Gadhafi helped Taylor take over Liberia
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5.14.2008 : 6:02 pm
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- Moammar Gadhafi's Libyan government ran a training camp in the 1980s that prepared Charles Taylor's troops to seize power in the West African nation of Liberia, a key witness at Taylor's war crimes trial testified Wednesday.
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Military: Gunmen in Nigeria oil region hijack boat
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5.14.2008 : 7:17 am
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria -- Unidentified gunmen in Nigeria's restive south have hijacked an oil-services vessel carrying 11 crew members, the military said Wednesday. The hijackers are demanding about $250,000 for the release of the boat and the crew, including one Portuguese and one Ukrainian, said military spokesman Maj. Sagir Musa.
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Witnesses say Kenya police emptying refugee camp
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5.14.2008 : 7:14 am
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NAIROBI, Kenya -- Kenyan officials backed by armed police are forcing thousands of Kenyans displaced by postelection violence to leave a refugee camp, a resident and an international aid worker said Wednesday.
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Uprooted Kenyans head home in fits and starts
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5.14.2008 : 5:22 am
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MOLO, Kenya -- Afternoon sunshine warms Samuel Mbugua as he hammers down a tarpaulin over the ruins of his burned and looted home. But the peace that brought him back to his Kenyan farm is as fragile as the plastic stretched over the weathered beams.
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Sudan: 200 died in Darfur rebel raid near Khartoum
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5.13.2008 : 9:06 pm
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KHARTOUM, Sudan -- More that 200 people were killed in fighting around Sudan's capital over the weekend, the defense minister announced Tuesday in the first official comment on casualties during the assault by Darfur rebels.
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Official: Chad closes border with Sudan
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5.12.2008 : 6:56 pm
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N'DJAMENA, Chad -- Chad closed its border with Sudan on Monday and put a halt to bilateral trade, a minister said, a day after Sudan severed diplomatic ties with Chad.
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Liberia bans food exports to protect rice supply
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5.12.2008 : 1:37 pm
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MONROVIA, Liberia -- Liberia banned all food exports Monday, saying profiteers have been taking advantage of its cheap rice prices to truck the grain -- already in short supply in Liberia -- to neighboring countries to sell at higher prices.
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Zimbabwe election official: presidential runoff delay likely
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5.11.2008 : 2:21 pm
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HARARE, Zimbabwe -- The runoff pitting President Robert Mugabe against opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will not take place in the next few weeks as required by law, the head of the electoral commission said in an interview published Sunday.
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State media: Sudan cuts ties with Chad after rebel attack
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5.11.2008 : 4:42 am
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KHARTOUM, Sudan -- President Omar al-Bashir announced Sunday he severed relations with neighboring Chad, accusing the government of supporting rebels who attacked the Sudanese capital, according to state media.
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A look at Sudan's Darfur conflict
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5.10.2008 : 6:54 pm
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A look at the rebels who moved on the Sudanese capital of Khartoum on Saturday, and the underlying conflict in the Darfur region:
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Zimbabwe opposition to contest runoff
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5.10.2008 : 4:44 am
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PRETORIA, South Africa -- Zimbabwe's top opposition leader says he will contest a presidential runoff and return soon to his homeland. Morgan Tsvangirai said Saturday his supporters would feel betrayed if he did not face Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe in the runoff.
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Witnesses: 6 killed in Somalia gunbattle with insurgents
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5.9.2008 : 3:42 pm
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MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Insurgents attacked a Somali military base near the presidential palace in Mogadishu on Friday, and an ensuing gunbattle left at least six people dead and 13 wounded, witnesses said.
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Nigeria lifts tax on rice in bid to head off food crisis
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5.7.2008 : 4:32 pm
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LAGOS, Nigeria -- Nigeria on Wednesday announced it was suspending import duties and other taxes on rice while launching a raft of other measures to head off a food crisis in Africa's most populous nation.
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Djibouti: Eritrea military buildup on border a provocation
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5.6.2008 : 9:26 pm
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UNITED NATIONS -- The tiny port nation of Djibouti, a key U.S. ally in the Horn of Africa, has urged the U.N. Security Council to take immediate action to prevent a conflict with its northern neighbor Eritrea.
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Mauritania names new prime minister
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5.6.2008 : 8:14 pm
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NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania -- Mauritania's president has named a new prime minister following the resignation of the former premier of the Islamic nation in northwest Africa resigned.
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12 killed in air strikes in north Darfur, aid group says
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5.6.2008 : 6:59 pm
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KHARTOUM, Sudan -- The peacekeeping force in Darfur said Tuesday it was still trying to evacuate those wounded in airstrikes two days earlier that an aid group reported left 12 people dead, including six children.
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Militants in Nigeria oil area seek mediation by Jimmy Carter
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5.6.2008 : 5:57 pm
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LAGOS, Nigeria -- The main militant group in Nigeria's oil-rich southern region said Tuesday that it is willing to cease hostilities if the federal government agrees to mediation by Jimmy Carter.
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Hundreds turn out for 2nd day of food protests in Somalia
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5.6.2008 : 2:43 pm
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MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Hundreds of youths hurled stones and blocked roads with blazing tires Tuesday in a second day of protests over soaring food prices that has frustrated residents already living in one of the world's most dangerous war zones.
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Insurgents say US airstrike hit Somalia; US denies report
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5.6.2008 : 7:08 am
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MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Islamic fighters say an overnight U.S. airstrike blasted a remote area of central Somalia hours after armed civilians met there, but no one was hurt. The U.S. military denies the report.
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Amnesty Intl: Ethiopian troops commit atrocities in Somalia
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5.6.2008 : 6:42 am
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NAIROBI, Kenya -- A leading human rights group on Tuesday accused Ethiopian troops in Somalia of killing civilians and committing atrocities, including slitting people's throats, gouging out eyes and gang-raping women.
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Freed Sudanese cameraman calls Gitmo history's worst jail
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5.5.2008 : 6:04 pm
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KHARTOUM, Sudan -- An Al-Jazeera cameraman released from the U.S.-run Guantanamo Bay detention center last week described it Monday as the worst prison mankind has ever seen.
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Somali president says pirates in French jail from his region
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5.5.2008 : 4:51 pm
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PARIS -- Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed said Monday that six pirates in French custody for allegedly holding the crew of a yacht hostage are likely from his home region in the Horn of Africa country.
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Tanzania summit to draw African and African-American leaders
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5.5.2008 : 4:51 pm
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NEW YORK -- More than a thousand prominent African-American leaders, executives, entertainers and activists will head to Tanzania for a summit with their African counterparts to help raise living standards on the world's poorest continent.
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Zimbabwe opposition won't commit to runoff until date is set
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5.5.2008 : 2:20 pm
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HARARE, Zimbabwe -- Zimbabwe's opposition leader won't say publicly whether he will participate in a presidential runoff until election officials set a date, even though he's already made up his mind about whether to run, an aide said Monday.
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Chinese cheer on as Olympic torch starts mainland leg
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5.5.2008 : 8:36 am
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SANYA, China -- Cheering Chinese stood on their chairs and waved flags as the Olympic torch started its mainland leg Sunday on the tropical island of Hainan -- the first stop in what is expected to be a peaceful three-month journey to Beijing.
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Ivory Coast rebels start to disarm
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5.4.2008 : 4:19 pm
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- Rebels in Ivory Coast have begun to disarm, a crucial step toward long-awaited presidential elections that many hope will secure an end to years of war, officials said Sunday.
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Malian official, sources: 5 dead in clash
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5.3.2008 : 5:10 pm
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BAMAKO, Mali -- Insurgents attacked an army convoy in northern Mali Saturday, violating a cease-fire and sparking a fire fight that left five people dead, a military official and area residents said.
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Shell: Attackers sabotage oil installation in Nigeria
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5.3.2008 : 5:03 pm
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria -- Unknown assailants attacked an oil installation in restive southern Nigeria and some crude production has been lost, Royal Dutch Shell PLC officials said Saturday.
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Official: Cause of deadly Sudan plane crash technical
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5.3.2008 : 9:21 am
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KHARTOUM, Sudan -- Engine failure is believed to have caused the plane crash in Sudan that killed 24 people, including key members of the southern Sudanese government, a senior official said Saturday.
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2 Kenyan high court judges over bribes
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5.3.2008 : 5:35 am
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NAIROBI, Kenya -- A government spokesman says two Kenyan High Court judges have been sacked after an investigation found they received bribes to influence their verdicts.
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Islamic insurgents in Somalia threaten revenge on America
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5.2.2008 : 4:27 pm
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MOGADISHU, Somalia -- A U.S. airstrike that killed the suspected al-Qaida leader in Somalia brought warnings of vengeance from Islamic insurgents Friday and the threat of a boycott that could jeopardize peace talks with the U.N.-supported government.
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Recent events in Zimbabwe at a glance
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5.2.2008 : 4:08 pm
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Recent events in Zimbabwe, where electoral officials said Friday a presidential runoff is necessary: ------
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Rights group: UN investigators in Congo ignored misconduct
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5.2.2008 : 3:27 pm
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DAKAR, Senegal -- Internal U.N. documents show investigators "ignored, minimized or shelved" numerous charges of gold smuggling and arms trading by its peacekeepers in Congo, an international rights organization said Friday.
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EU troops searching Chad for aid worker's killers
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5.2.2008 : 7:33 am
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PARIS -- European peacekeepers in Chad are searching for the killers of a French aid worker shot in the head by bandits, France's foreign minister said Friday.
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Treasure trove found in 500-year-old shipwreck off Africa
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5.2.2008 : 12:46 am
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- The ship was laden with tons of copper ingots, elephant tusks, gold coins -- and cannons to fend off pirates. But it had nothing to protect it from the fierce weather off a particularly bleak stretch of inhospitable African coast, and it sank 500 years ago. Now it has been found, stumbled upon by De Beers geologists prospecting for diamonds off Namibia.
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Moroccan police arrest terror convict who escaped prison
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5.1.2008 : 4:44 pm
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RABAT, Morocco -- Moroccan police have arrested one of nine convicts who escaped from prison in April and were linked to deadly 2003 terrorist attacks in Casablanca, the official MAP news agency said Thursday.
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US strikes on militants in Somalia
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5.1.2008 : 4:26 pm
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U.S. strikes on suspected extremists in Somalia since December 2006:
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South Africa lifts 13-year ban on elephant killing
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5.1.2008 : 1:16 pm
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DAKAR, Senegal -- South Africa lifted a 13-year ban on killing elephants Thursday, a move conservationists warn could encourage poachers to slaughter the animals for ivory and threaten dwindling populations elsewhere on the continent.
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Union ends strike that slashed Nigeria's oil production
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5.1.2008 : 12:30 pm
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ABUJA, Nigeria -- A workers' strike that slashed Nigeria's oil output ended Thursday and regular production will resume, the union behind the strike said.
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Zimbabwe government tally shows presidential runoff needed
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5.1.2008 : 11:16 am
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HARARE, Zimbabwe -- A runoff will be necessary to decide Zimbabwe's presidential election, a Cabinet minister said Thursday, citing the government's own election results.
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UN extends southern Sudan peacekeeping mission
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5.1.2008 : 8:17 am
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UNITED NATIONS -- The Security Council voted unanimously Wednesday night to extend the U.N. peacekeeping mission in southern Sudan and called for demarcation of the contested oil-rich border region between the north and south.
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Crew of Spanish ship home after hijacking off Somalia
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4.30.2008 : 2:38 pm
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MADRID, Spain -- Spanish fishermen whose ship was hijacked off the coast of Somalia returned home Wednesday with harrowing tales of being fired on by rocket-propelled grenades and held at gunpoint during a week of captivity on the high seas.
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Witnesses: Ethiopian Troops kill 13 civilians in Somalia
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4.30.2008 : 7:03 am
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MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Ethiopian troops allied to Somalia's shaky government opened fire on civilians in a street in southwestern Somalia, killing 13 on Wednesday after an explosion there killed two soldiers, witnesses said.
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2 charged in Mauritania attacks
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4.30.2008 : 6:44 am
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NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania -- Two accused terrorists were arrested Wednesday on charges that they organized and led attacks in Mauritania by an al-Qaida-linked cell -- one on the Israeli embassy, another that killed French tourists.
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Zimbabwe opposition leader appeals for UN envoy
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4.29.2008 : 7:30 pm
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UNITED NATIONS -- The Zimbabwe opposition's second-in-command urged the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday to appoint a special envoy to help resolve the country's worsening crisis following last month's elections.
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Hot air ballooning gains popularity in South Africa
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4.29.2008 : 6:32 pm
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BETHLEHEM, South Africa -- Hovering in a hot air balloon above a restless pride of rare white lions was the defining moment of Chris Sanger-Davies' first trip to South Africa.
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Southern troops, Arab tribesmen clash in Sudan
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4.29.2008 : 6:24 pm
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KHARTOUM, Sudan -- South Sudanese troops and Arab tribesmen clashed for four days in an oil-rich region in central Sudan, killing dozens of people before peace was restored on Tuesday, a government official said.
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Top Kenyan gangster slain, raising threat to planned talks
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4.28.2008 : 5:55 pm
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NAIROBI, Kenya -- Gunmen killed one of the leaders of a feared Kenyan gang Monday, throwing scheduled peace talks between the group and the government into disarray, the dead man's deputy and an official said.
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