Tag: Africa

Goodness Adams, a 10-month baby, who survived Monday's bomb explosion is carried by her aunt, Grace Sabo, in an ambulance at Asokoro hospital, Abuja, to be taken to be reunited with her mother at the Wuse hospital in Abuja, Nigeria, Wednesday, April 16, 2014. The baby, lost in the chaos of the bus station bomb blast in Nigeria's capital is to be reunited Wednesday with her critically wounded mother, a Nigerian newspaper reported. Goodness, is being cared for at the hospital where it was presumed her mother was among the 75 dead victims of Monday's explosion, reported The Daily Trust. But family members found the mother, Gloria Adams, in another hospital, and her aunt has arranged the reunion. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

20 killed as Islamic extremists rampage in Nigeria

BASHIR ADIGUNMICHELLE FAUL · April 16, 2014 11:17 pm

A man walks past electoral posters in Algiers, Wednesday, April 16, 2014. Algerians go to the polls Thursday to elect the president of their oil-rich country, a key U.S. ally in the fight against terror and a major natural gas provider to Europe. Six candidates are running for the presidency. President since 1999, Abdelaziz Bouteflika,77, is running for a 4th term despite being hit by a stroke last year that left him speaking and moving with difficulty. While he has not made a single campaign experience, he is expected to win with the full force of the state backing him. (AP Photo/Sidali Djarboub)

Algerian election faces disaffected populace

Paul Schemm · April 16, 2014 6:11 pm

FILE- In this file photo taken on Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2012, Emmanuel de Merode, Virunga National Park director and chief warden, poses at the park headquarters in Rumangabo, some 60 kms (40 miles) north of Goma, eastern Congo. Park officials say the Belgian director of Africa's oldest national park, a reserve in conflict-ridden eastern Congo, has been shot and seriously wounded. Three gunmen ambushed de Merode on Tuesday, April 15 according spokeswoman Joanna Natasegara. A statement on the park's website said he was traveling between Goma, a main city in the east near Rwanda's border, and Rumangabo at the time Natasegara said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay,File)

Protector of vast African park shot and wounded

Sarah DiLorenzo · April 16, 2014 4:50 pm

A woman react at Asokoro hospital morgue after she lost a relative following an explosion at a bus park in Abuja, Nigeria, Tuesday, April. 15, 2014, with at least 72 feared dead as the blast 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)

Violence surges from Islamic uprising in Nigeria

Michelle Faul · April 15, 2014 8:49 pm

Oscar Pistorius listens to evidence being given in court in Pretoria, South Africa, Tuesday, April 15, 2014 after questioning by state prosecutor Gerrie Nel, had earlier finished. Pistorius is charged with the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentines Day in 2013. (AP Photo/Alon Skuy, Pool)

Defense gets its turn in Pistorius murder trial

CHRISTOPHER TORCHIAGERALD IMRAY · April 15, 2014 7:48 pm

In handcuffs, Rwanda musician admits to crimes

In handcuffs, Rwanda musician admits to crimes

Edmund Kagire · April 15, 2014 2:10 pm

Fighting threatens an oil center in South Sudan

Energy and Environment

Fighting threatens an oil center in South Sudan

Ilya Gridneff · April 15, 2014 1:18 pm

Death toll in Ebola outbreak rises to 121

Death toll in Ebola outbreak rises to 121

Sarah DiLorenzo · April 15, 2014 12:04 pm

Victims of a blast lie on the ground as fire and smoke rise at a bus park in Abuja, Nigeria, Monday, April 14, 2014. A massive explosion ripped through a bus station during the morning rush hour in Nigeria's capital, killing and wounding scores of people in a bombing that marked the bloodiest terrorist attack ever in Abuja. (AP Photo/Kayode Olamikan)

Blast at bus station in Nigerian capital kills 72

BASHIR ADIGUNMICHELLE FAUL · April 14, 2014 9:27 pm

Fighting erupts in Central African Republic town

Fighting erupts in Central African Republic town

Hippolyte Marboua · April 14, 2014 8:03 pm

A look at the Nigerian extremist group Boko Haram

A look at the Nigerian extremist group Boko Haram

The Associated Press · April 14, 2014 4:53 pm

Gambia won’t take passengers from Ebola-hit areas

Gambia won’t take passengers from Ebola-hit areas

Abdoulie John · April 14, 2014 4:32 pm