Tag: Africa

Central African Republic's interim President Catherine Samba-Panza sits in the parliament building before taking the oath of office in Bangui, Central African Republic, Thursday Jan. 23, 2014. Samba-Panza pledged to bring peace and unity to the anarchic country as looters in the streets pillaged Muslim neighborhoods in the latest sign of escalating sectarian tensions.(AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

C. African Republic leader sworn in amid looting

HIPPOLYTE MARBOUAKRISTA LARSON · January 23, 2014 6:30 pm

Morocco amends controversial rape law

Morocco amends controversial rape law

Washington Examiner · January 22, 2014 10:37 pm

Egypt says not invited to US Africa summit

Egypt says not invited to US Africa summit

Washington Examiner · January 22, 2014 6:33 pm

Mali lawmakers choose leader from ruling party

Mali lawmakers choose leader from ruling party

Washington Examiner · January 22, 2014 1:06 pm

EDS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENTS In this Sunday, Jan. 19, 2014 photo, a young man adds kindling to the burning body of a lynched Muslim man, in Bangui, Central African Republic. Residents of the Sango neighborhood, who said they were acting in revenge for the lynching of a taxi driver from Sango a day earlier, killed two Muslim men on Sunday, burning their bodies at a central roundabout. Two other Muslim passerbys escaped to the protection of French and African peacekeeping forces. (AP Photo/Herve Serefio)

C. African Republic chooses mayor as new leader

HIPPOLYTE MARBOUAKRISTA LARSON · January 21, 2014 2:21 am

Mali: 5 peacekeepers injured by land mine

Mali: 5 peacekeepers injured by land mine

Washington Examiner · January 20, 2014 9:47 pm

A South Sudanese government soldier carries an ammunition box from storage at the airport in Bor, Jonglei State, South Sudan Sunday, Jan. 19, 2014. Leaders for warring sides in South Sudan's monthlong internal conflict say they are close to signing a cease-fire and the South Sudanese military spokesman said that army forces had retaken the key city of Bor Saturday, defeating 15,000 rebels. (AP Photo/Mackenzie Knowles-Coursin)

In S. Sudan, rebel-held town of Bor destroyed

Ilya Gridneff · January 20, 2014 6:09 pm

EU gives green light for military force for CAR

JOHN-THOR DAHLBURGJUERGEN BAETZ · January 20, 2014 5:39 pm

Legislator and spokesperson of the group stopFGM (female genital mutilation) Petra Bayer, left, speaks at a conference in Vienna in February 2007. (AP Photo / Lilli Strauss)

Beltway Confidential

Female genital mutilation decreasing, but more work needs to be done

Ashe Schow · January 2, 2014 5:00 am

Federal death squads have killed the first 26 Barred Owls facing shotguns in a "removal experiment" to help the threatened Northern Spotted Owl, victim of natural migration, habitat competition, interbreeding and the forces of evolutionary change. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

Learning a conservation lesson from Africa

Ron Arnold · January 2, 2014 5:00 am

US ambassador to visit Central African Republic

US ambassador to visit Central African Republic

Deb Riechmann · December 19, 2013 8:41 am

President Obama jokes with Danish prime minister, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, left, during the memorial service for former South African president Nelson Mandela at the FNB Stadium in Soweto, near Johannesburg, South Africa, on Dec. 10. (AP/Matt Dunham)

Race helps Obama slide out of scandal over Nelson Mandela memorial ‘selfie’

Gregory Kane · December 16, 2013 5:00 am