Tag: Africa

Officials: 1 UN soldier wounded by mine in Mali

Officials: 1 UN soldier wounded by mine in Mali

Washington Examiner · April 23, 2014 3:24 pm

In this image taken from video, dead bodies lie on the road near Bentiu, South Sudan, on Sunday, April 20, 2014. The United Nations' top humanitarian official in South Sudan, Toby Lanzer, told The Associated Press in a phone interview on Tuesday, April 22, 2014, that the ethnically targeted killings are "quite possibly a game-changer" for a conflict that has been raging since mid-December and that has exposed longstanding ethnic hostilities. There was also a disturbing echo of Rwanda, which is marking the 20th anniversary this month of its genocide that killed 1 million people. (AP Photo/Toby Lanzer, United Nations)

‘Piles and piles’ of bodies in S. Sudan slaughter

Jason Straziuso · April 23, 2014 3:15 am

FILE - In this Friday Nov. 22, 2012 file photo, Miles Lappeman, owner of Finfoot Lake Reserve near Tantanana, South Africa, and his son Marc, right, walk past the carcass of one of eight rhino killed by poachers. South African officials said Tuesday April 22, 2014, that thieves have stolen a stockpile of rhino horns from the offices of a provincial parks agency, dealing a setback to efforts to curb an escalation of rhino poaching in recent years. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell, File)

Thieves steal rhino horns in South Africa

Christopher Torchia · April 22, 2014 5:43 pm

Ebola outbreak death toll in West Africa over 140

Ebola outbreak death toll in West Africa over 140

Washington Examiner · April 22, 2014 3:04 pm

FILE - In this Sunday, April 29, 2012 file photo, troops from the Central African Republic stand guard at a building used for joint meetings between them and U.S. Army special forces, in Obo, Central African Republic, where U.S. special forces have paired up with local troops and Ugandan soldiers to seek out Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). African troops captured a junior commander with the LRA - a rebel lieutenant known as Charles Okello - and rescued 10 people, mostly children, abducted by the rebels, Uganda's military said Tuesday, April 22, 2014, the latest blow against the rebel group in an international hunt for its fugitive leaders. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

African troops capture junior LRA rebel commander

Rodney Muhumuza · April 22, 2014 1:41 pm

In this photo taken Monday, April, 21. 2014. Borno state governor Kashim Shettima, centre, visit government secondary school Chibok, were gunmen abducted more than 200 students in Chibok, Nigeria. Nigerian parents say more than 200 girls and young women abducted from the Chibok school by Islamic militants remain missing one week later, despite a "hot pursuit" by security forces and an independent search by desperate parents who went into a dangerous forest. Dozens of the kidnapped girls managed to escape by jumping from the back of an open truck or hiding in dense forest.

230 girls abducted in Nigeria still missing

HARUNA UMARMICHELLE FAUL · April 22, 2014 1:38 pm

A Somali police officer looks at the wreckage of the car in Mogadishu, Somalia, Monday, April, 21, 2014. . A Somali police official said a legislator in the country's parliament has been killed in the car bomb explosion in the Somali capital on Monday. Capt. Mohamed Yusuf said Monday that Isaq Mohamed Rino was killed after a bomb planted under his car exploded in Mogadishu's Hamarweyne neighborhood. The blast also wounded another lawmaker, Mohamed Ali, who was traveling with Rino in the car. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

Somali lawmaker shot and killed in latest attack

Abdi Guled · April 22, 2014 10:10 am

UN condemns ethnic killings in South Sudan

UN condemns ethnic killings in South Sudan

Rodney Muhumuza · April 21, 2014 6:15 pm

Christian militia, French forces fight in C Africa

Christian militia, French forces fight in C Africa

Washington Examiner · April 21, 2014 4:52 pm

Congo grants first batch of amnesties to ex-rebels

Congo grants first batch of amnesties to ex-rebels

Washington Examiner · April 21, 2014 4:18 pm

A Somali police officer looks at the wreckage of the car in Mogadishu, Somalia, Monday, April, 21, 2014. . A Somali police official said a legislator in the country's parliament has been killed in the car bomb explosion in the Somali capital on Monday. Capt. Mohamed Yusuf said Monday that Isaq Mohamed Rino was killed after a bomb planted under his car exploded in Mogadishu's Hamarweyne neighborhood. The blast also wounded another lawmaker, Mohamed Ali, who was traveling with Rino in the car. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

Somali lawmaker killed in car bomb explosion

Washington Examiner · April 21, 2014 1:43 pm

Energy and Environment

Elephants endangered by land grabs

Richard Lardner · April 21, 2014 12:55 pm