Tag: Africa

In this photo released by the Kenya Presidency, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, center, and Deputy President William Ruto, center-left, are welcomed back by Chief of the Defence Forces Staff Gen. Julius Karangi, center-right, after attending the African Union (AU) summit in Addis Ababa, at the airport in Nairobi, Kenya Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014. The African Union urged its members to "speak with one voice" against criminal proceedings at the International Criminal Court against sitting presidents, according to a statement Saturday, saying it was disappointed that a request to the U.N. Security Council to defer the trials of Kenya's leaders "has not yielded the positive result expected." (AP Photo/Kenya Presidency)

Africa Union urges united stand against ICC trials

Elias Meseret · February 1, 2014 5:32 pm

FILE - In this Friday, Oct. 18, 2013 file photo, Kenyan journalist Walter Barasa, right, speaks to supporters before attending a court hearing to determine whether authorities will enforce an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant against him, at the Milimani court in Nairobi, Kenya. A Kenyan court Friday, Jan. 31, 2014 refused to stop the arrest of Barasa who is wanted by the ICC for allegedly interfering with prosecution witnesses in the crimes against humanity case against Kenya's Deputy President William Ruto. (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim, File)

Kenyan court: ICC can arrest journalist

Tom Odula · January 31, 2014 9:19 pm

Patients, medical workers flee S Sudan hospital

Patients, medical workers flee S Sudan hospital

Washington Examiner · January 31, 2014 6:12 pm

Niger frees 2 journalists and an activist

Niger frees 2 journalists and an activist

Washington Examiner · January 30, 2014 6:27 pm

African Union summit ponders violent conflicts

African Union summit ponders violent conflicts

Elias Meseret · January 30, 2014 3:52 pm

South Africa: Platinum miners reject 9% hike

South Africa: Platinum miners reject 9% hike

Washington Examiner · January 30, 2014 11:57 am

EDS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENTS - French forces move into a courtyard where a Muslim man lies dead moments after he was killed, in the Miskin district of Bangui, Central African Republic, Wednesday Jan. 29, 2014. Fighting between rival Muslim Seleka factions and Christian anti_Balaka militias continues, as two Muslim men were slaughtered by unknown assailants with machetes nearby, prompting French forces to fire warning shots in the air but not intervene to try to prevent the killings. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

French struggle to stop C. African Republic mobs

Jerome Delay · January 29, 2014 10:24 pm

An Air-France plane taxis past a refugee camp outside the airport in Bangui, Central African Republic, Tuesday Jan. 28, 2014. Christian refugees are living in makeshift shelters near the airport in Bangui, as they try to escape from the deepening divisions between the country's Muslim minority and Christian majority. Christian refugees who have fled sectarian violence complain about the lack of aid reaching their impoverished tent city. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

UN Security Council authorizes EU troops to CAR

Alexandra Olson · January 29, 2014 1:33 am

UN official: Some S Sudanese too afraid to go home

UN official: Some S Sudanese too afraid to go home

Washington Examiner · January 28, 2014 4:05 pm

An anti-Balaka Christian militiaman runs across a major avenue heading to the predominantly Muslim Miskin neighborhood downtown Bangui, Central African Republic, Friday Jan. 24, 2014. Moments later, heavy gunfire erupted between anti-Balakas and Seleka Muslim militias, prompting the intervention of Rwandan and French forces who also used fire power. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Fighting erupts in C. African Republic capital

JEROME DELAYKRISTA LARSON · January 24, 2014 7:21 pm

UN: Thousands of Nigerians flee fighting in north

UN: Thousands of Nigerians flee fighting in north

Carley Petesch · January 24, 2014 6:08 pm

French military: 11 jihadists killed in north Mali

French military: 11 jihadists killed in north Mali

Washington Examiner · January 24, 2014 5:12 pm