MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Kenya's military fought a clash with al Shabaab fighters in southern Somalia on…
Africa
Mozambique families protest against Brazil’s Vale
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Families resettled by Brazilian mining giant Vale in the Tete region of Mozambique…
Nigerians defy order to end strike
Thousands of protesting Nigerians defied a government order to end a nationwide strike that entered its third…
President’s death a stress test for volatile Bissau
BISSAU (Reuters) - The death of Guinea Bissau President Malam Bacai Sanha will be a stress…
Pirates hijack Iranian ship in Gulf of Aden: report
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Pirates in the Gulf of Aden have hijacked an Iranian ship carrying 30,000…
Gunmen attack Egypt hotel, no injuries: sources
CAIRO (Reuters) - Four armed men attacked a hotel in an Egyptian Red Sea resort popular…
Sixteen dead as Nigeria chaos grows
Ethnic and religious violence in Nigeria claimed 16 more victims, with gunmen killing eight in the north…
Guinea Bissau president dies in France
BISSAU (Reuters) - Guinea Bissau President Malam Bacai Sanha died on Monday in a Paris hospital…
Former US soldier Craig Baxam ‘helped al-Shabab’
A former US Army soldier has been charged with trying to help Somalia's al-Shabab militant…
Stampede at Johannesburg university kills one
One person has died after a stampede broke out among crowds of people trying to…