Ruby rush brings gangland turf war to Mozambique
MONTEPUEZ: The stakes are high in Montepuez where the discovery of rubies has led to violence among miners that has turned the northern town...
No country for young men: Mali loses its youths to migrant crisis
KODJAN: Once bustling with sinewy young men like any other farming village in rural Mali, Kodjan is starting to look distinctly grey. Little by...
Shabaab bombers attack Somali checkpoint, hotel
MOGADISHU: Suicide bombers attacked the main peacekeeping base in Somalia's capital yesterday, killing at least three Somali security officers, police said. Islamist Shabaab militants,...
Somalia port boss killed, car bomb leaves 9 dead in Shabaab attacks
A deadly day for the restive nation
MOGADISHU: Emergency rescue staffs carry the body of a victim...
Huge demos as Algerians urge Bouteflika allies to resign too
ALGIERS: Algerians march during an anti-government demonstration in the capital Algiers. - AFP
ALGIERS: A...
26 killed in deadly Somalia hotel siege
TOPSHOT - A man passes in front of the rubbles of the popular Medina hotel of Kismayo on July 13, 2019,...
Court finds Thai general guilty of human trafficking
BANGKOK: A Thai general was found guilty of human trafficking yesterday as a Bangkok court convicted scores of people in a mass trial exposing...
Pope slams rich over injustice to the poor – Pontiff warns against ‘sugar of...
NAIROBI" Pope Francis lashed out at wealthy minorities who hoard resources at the expense of the poor as he visited a crowded Nairobi slum...
Sudan’s Bashir says protesters trying to copy Arab Spring
CAIRO: Protesters in Sudan are trying to imitate the Arab Spring uprisings that shook the region in 2011, President Omar Al-Bashir said...
Beaten, abused; Sudan women bear scars of fight for freedom
Women had their clothes torn off, raped
KHARTOUM: After six years abroad, Khadija Saleh returned to Sudan in March...
As water bank runs dry, Uganda greens hills to soak up rain
MBARARA, Uganda: In the village of Katebe, Ugandan schoolchildren have little choice but to drink from the same water supply as animals. During the...
First of Tanzanian albino kids with missing limbs goes home – ‘People with albinism...
NEW YORK: Kabula Nkarango Masanja returned home to Tanzania with a new American prosthetic arm replacing the limb that was chopped off with a...
