Darfur: UN helicopter accident, 8 injured
About eight people were seriously injured Sunday when a helicopter from the UN peacekeeping mission in Darfur made an emergency landing in the western Sudanese […]
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Zimbambwe: Gov’t issues new labor regulations
President Robert Mugabe’s government last week published a bill seeking to amend the labor law to force employers to pay severance packages to workers fired […]
Boko Haram’s leader Abubakar Shekau claims he is still alive
Abubakar Shekau, the leader of the Nigerian Islamist militant organization Boko Haram, has refuted media reports that he had been killed or deposed as the […]
Egypt: Russia gives Egypt a Molniya missile ship
Egypt’s naval arsenal will be boosted by a Russian warship that Armed Forces Spokesman Mohamed Samir described in a post on social media as the […]
Cameroon: Refugees-locals relations growing difficult
The once easy and friendly relations between the local population in eastern Cameroon and the refugees from the Central African Republic are growing more and […]
CAR: Ban Ki-Moon fires UN peacekeeping chief
The U.N. chief has fired on Wednesday the head of the peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic after a fresh round of allegations of […]
DRC: Measles outbreak killed 315 people, infected at least 20,000 – UN
A measles outbreak in copper-rich Katanga province in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed 315 people and infected at least 20,000, the United Nations […]
Egypt: leader of pro-Mursi party released
Opposition politician Abul-Ela Mady was released on Wednesday after nearly two years of pretrial detention, Mady’s son Ahmed said, two days after a court ordered […]
Three Malian soldiers killed in land mine explosion
Three were killed after their patrol vehicle hit a landmine on Monday in a forest in central Mali, Defense Minister Tieman Hubert Coulibaly said. “Today […]
South Africa’ Zuma asked mining and steel companies to limit job cuts
South Africa President Jacob Zuma has asked mining and steel companies to limit job cuts as falling commodity prices put profits at risk. “We urge […]