GENEVA (Reuters) - Five million people are at risk of cholera in drought-hit Ethiopia, where acute…
Police use teargas against protesters in Tunisia
TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisian police used teargas on Friday to disperse stone-throwing demonstrators demanding progress in…
Turkey urges humanitarian funds for Libya
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey called on Friday for billions of dollars of frozen Libyan funds to…
France to offer 2 bln euros extra aid to Ivory Coast: radio
DAKAR (Reuters) - France will offer Ivory Coast two billion euros in aid from mid-2012 on…
Burkina sacks hundreds of soldiers over unrest
OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Burkina Faso announced on Thursday it had dismissed 566 soldiers accused of involvement…
Senegal’s Wade sets sights on new term
DAKAR (Reuters) - Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade said on Thursday he was confident of winning re-election…
Britain says sending 4 more warplanes for NATO in Libya
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Britain said on Friday it will send four more Tornado warplanes to support…
Libya rebels retake village south of Tripoli
ZINTAN, Libya (Reuters) - Rebel fighters said on Wednesday they had retaken a village south of…
Nigerian Islamist sect wants soldiers withdrawn
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - A radical Islamist sect behind almost daily attacks in the northeastern Nigerian…
Egypt shakes up police after protests
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt said on Wednesday more than 650 senior officers would end their police…