Tag: Africa

Uganda suspends track coach over sex abuse charges

Uganda suspends track coach over sex abuse charges

Rodney Muhumuza · April 21, 2014 11:39 am

UN says 58 killed in attack on UN base in SSudan

UN says 58 killed in attack on UN base in SSudan

Edith Lederer · April 19, 2014 12:06 am

President Abdelaziz Bouteflika arrives on a wheelchair to vote in the presidential elections in Algiers, Thursday, April 17, 2014. Algerians are trickling into the polls to elect a new president of this oil-rich North African nation in an election expected to be won by the ailing incumbent. President Bouteflika has ruled this nation for the past 15 years and, despite suffering from a stroke, is running for a fourth term on a platform of stability. (AP Photo/Sidali Djarboub)

Opposition cries fraud in Algerian election

Paul Schemm · April 17, 2014 11:26 pm

Security men stand guard in front of a bus conveying All progressives Congress opposition governors after visiting victims of at the Accident and Emergency unit of Asokoro hospital where injured people from Monday's explosion at a bus station are receiving treatment in Abuja, Nigeria, Wednesday, April 16, 2014. Scores of peopledied in the the blast that destroyed more than 30 vehicles and caused secondary explosions as their fuel tanks exploded and burned. The Monday attack just miles from Nigeria's seat of government increases doubts about the military's ability to contain an Islamic uprising that is dividing the country on religious lines as never before. (AP Photo/ Sunday Alamba)

Nigerians search unsafe forest for abducted girls

HARUNA UMARMICHELLE FAUL · April 17, 2014 9:24 pm

French military frees 5 aid workers in N Mali

French military frees 5 aid workers in N Mali

Jamey Keaten · April 17, 2014 9:10 pm

Forensic expert, Roger Dixon, left, holds a court exhibit, a magazine rack, as he answers questions put to him by chief state prosecutor Gerrie Nel , right, during the murder trial of Oscar Pistorius, in Pretoria, South Africa, Thursday, April 17, 2014. Pistorius is charged with the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentines Day in 2013. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, Pool)

Pistorius trial: Prosecutor chides defense witness

CHRISTOPHER TORCHIAGERALD IMRAY · April 17, 2014 7:37 pm

Thugs with machetes attack Nigerian party congress

Thugs with machetes attack Nigerian party congress

Washington Examiner · April 17, 2014 6:42 pm

West Africa’s Ebola outbreak has claimed 137 lives

West Africa’s Ebola outbreak has claimed 137 lives

Washington Examiner · April 17, 2014 4:22 pm

Kenya sends 91 Somalis to Mogadishu amid crackdown

Tom Odula · April 17, 2014 3:49 pm

People inspect the burnt out palace following an attack by Boko Haram in Bama, Nigeria. (AP/Jossy Ola)

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Updated — Real war on women: Terrorist group in Nigeria targets girls as sex slaves, cooks

Ashe Schow · April 17, 2014 4:00 am

In this photo provided by the United Nations, former New Zealand ambassador Colin Keating addresses an open session of the United Nations Security Council at United Nations Headquarters, Wednesday, April 16, 2014. Keating, who was president of the Security Council in April 1994, apologized Wednesday for the council's refusal to recognize that genocide was taking place in Rwanda and for doing nothing to halt the slaughter of more than one million people. (AP Photo/United Nations, Evan Schneider)

Apology for UN refusal to stop Rwanda genocide

Edith Lederer · April 17, 2014 12:14 am

UN chief: 1 million South Sudanese may face famine

UN chief: 1 million South Sudanese may face famine

Edith Lederer · April 16, 2014 11:27 pm