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Somalia: Car bomb attack near presidential palace kills 5

September 22, 2015 Khalid Al Mouahidi 0

Five people have been killed after a car bomb exploded close to the presidential palace in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Monday, police said. The blast […]

Somalia: Al Shabab militants attack A.U. peacekeepers’ base

September 1, 2015 Khalid Al Mouahidi 0

Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Shabaab group rammed a suicide car bomb into an African Union army base in southern Somalia, AMISOM, early Tuesday and stormed inside, an […]

Burundi: Five Gov’t Officials Murdered

August 7, 2015 Geraldine Boechat 0

Five Burundi government officials have been killed by unidentified assailants since Sunday, police said on Thursday. “We have realized that people from institutions are being […]

Obama tells African leaders to respect presidential term limits

July 28, 2015 Khalid Al Mouahidi 0

In the speech he delivered at the African Union on Tuesday, the US president Barack Obama called African leaders to respect presidential term limits. He […]

Burundians vote today despite violent protest

July 21, 2015 Khalid Al Mouahidi 0

Around 3.8 million Burundians are eligible to vote in Burundi today despite international condemnation and thousands of people fleeing feared violence. Polls opened at 06:00 […]

U.N. must intervene in Burundi, Human-rights experts

July 18, 2015 Steven Addamah 0

Seven independent U.N. human rights investigators said on Thursday that the U.N. Security Council must intervene in Burundi to prevent mass atrocities and the risk of […]

Burundi: Uganda President starts mediation role

July 15, 2015 Pawla Nibramich 0

Uganda’s president Yoweri Museveni has started mediating talks between Burundi’s government and opposition groups to help ease tensions that have arisen over plans by President […]

Coffee giant Starbucks to open stores in Sub Saharan Africa in 2016

July 15, 2015 Khalid Al Mouahidi 0

After it struck a deal with Taste Holdings on Tuesday, the coffee giant Starbucks says it will open stores in sub-Saharan Africa for the first […]

Tanzania earmarks $ 2 billion for roads construction in Dar Es-Salaam

May 29, 2015 Steven Addamah 0

The Tanzania government is planning to invest 4.394 trillion shillings ($ 2 billion) to build new road infrastructure and launch a rapid transit bus to […]