Windhoek - A Namibian police officer was charged on Monday over the planting of a fake suitcase bomb at the main airport in the capital Windhoek last week,…
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28 defect from al-Qaeda group
Nouakchott - A security official says that 28 members of al-Qaeda's North African branch have defected from the group and have surrendered to the Mauritanian army.
Hungarian volunteers go into action
Thanks to the continued efforts made by the urban district of Antsirabe in socio-economic development, it is now in cooperation with other cities in Madagascar or combined with…
Hungarian physicians provide free care
The six doctors from Hungary came to free care in Vakinankaratra.
Madgascar army crushes revolt
Antananarivo - Madagascan forces put down a three-day mutiny on Saturday when they stormed an army base and arrested dissident soldiers who had declared a coup on the…
Namibia ‘bomb’ was security test
Berlin - A suspected bomb intercepted in Namibia that was to be put on a Munich-bound charter plane was only a US-made dummy used to test security checks,…
Gabon parties file suit against TI
Libreville - Five associations in Gabon on Monday filed a suit against Transparency International (TI), accusing the watchdog group of defamation against the late president Omar Bongo Ondimba,…
Rwanda frees army general from house arrest
Nairobi - A Rwandan army general arrested in April and placed under house arrest for misconduct has been released, a statement said on Thursday.
Nigerian military frees 19 hostages
Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) -- Nigerian authorities have freed 19 hostages seized by rebels in the oil-rich Niger Delta region, a military spokesman said Thursday.
Mass break-out at Congolese jail
Nearly 200 prisoners in the Democratic Republic of Congo have escaped from a jail in the remote north-west of the country.