Kenyans mourning the deaths from last week’s massacre at Garissa University College gathered for a vigil Tuesday, the final day of an official three-day mourning period. The demonstrators gathered at a public park in Nairobi to share stories of the 148 students killed and call for greater
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Police in Ebola-hit Sierra-Leone have raided a funeral and arrested 13 people suspected of organising an unsafe burial, officers said. Police superintendent Da Samah said “heavily-armed” police arrived just in time to stop a 50-year-old man being interred on the outskirts of Freetown after they were tipped off about the ceremony. “We stopped the burial
The sole survivor among three Spanish cavers trapped for days at the bottom of a deep ravine in Morocco’s High Atlas mountains was freed on Sunday after a complicated rescue operation, officials said. Twenty-seven-year-old policeman Juan Bolivar, the only man to leave the ordeal alive, was admitted to the private Chifa clinic in Ouarzazate, southern […]
Egyptian security forces have killed the head of a jihadist group responsible for deadly attacks on police, an interior ministry statement said on Sunday. It said Hammam Mohamed Attiyah was killed in an exchange of fire with security forces during a raid on an apartment in southern Cairo No date for the incident was given, […]
Rebels in Sudan’s South Kordofan said on Sunday they had captured a lorry carrying ballot boxes to polling stations for nationwide elections due next week, vowing to disrupt voting in the conflict-hit region. The Sudan People’s Liberation Army-North “ambushed and captured a vehicle loaded fully with ballot boxes” on Saturday on the road linking the
An opposition leader in the Democratic Republic of Congo has called on President Joseph Kabila to categorically state that he will not seek a third term because the constitution prohibits him to seek another term. Martin Fayulu of the Commitment for Citizenship and Development party said the opposition also wants presidential election before local […]
Kenyan forces carried out airstrikes against al-Shabab targets in neighboring Somalia, days after the militants killed 148 people in an attack at a university in southern Kenya. Warplanes hit two camps in the Gedo region of southern Somalia on Sunday. There was no immediate report on possible casualties or damage from the strikes. Al-Shabab […]
Sierra Leone’s eastern district of Kailahun, once a hotbed of Ebola, has recorded its first case in nearly four months, threatening progress made to stamp out the disease, officials said Saturday. A 9-month-old boy tested positive for Ebola after dying in Kailahun, the district on Guinea’s border that recorded Sierra Leone’s first Ebola case […]
Authorities in Kenya on Sunday identified one of the al-Shabab gunmen who massacred 148 people at a university as the son of a Kenyan government official. An Interior Ministry spokesman Mwenda Njoka said that Abdirahim Abdullahi was among four suicide attackers killed during Thursday’s massacre at Garissa University College. The spokesman said the government
Niger’s President Mahamadou Issoufou has said that “the end of Boko Haram is near.” Issoufou spoke with VOA French to Africa news service Tuesday during a visit to Washington. He said Boko Haram “is not eradicated but was greatly weakened” by an offensive launched by multinational forces late in January. Since then, troops from Nigeria, Niger,
US President, Barack Obama has approved the delivery of a dozen F-16 aircraft to Egypt that had been frozen after a military- led takeover. The White House said Obama told Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi by phone on Tuesday that a 2013 freeze would be lifted. The move comes as Egypt plays a key role in […]
The trial of 13 men accused of taking part in an al-Shabab attack in Uganda that killed 76 people in 2010 has been postponed after the top prosecutor was shot dead. Police on Tuesday vowed to catch the killers of Joan Kagezi, acting Assistant Director of Public Prosecution, who was murdered by men on a motorbike […]
Mozambique’s President Filipe Nyusi was elected head of the ruling party Frelimo on Sunday, allaying fears his preÂdecessor was planning to cling to power behind the scenes. Nyusi took over at the helm of the party from MozamÂbique’s ex-president Armando Guebuza, Frelimo spokesperÂson Damiao Jose told reporters, ending weeks of uncertainty. He was elected with
Racism and the financial meltdown kept Congolese masÂter chef Christian Yumbi down and out in Belgium. Back at home, the gourmet innovator has finally won the stardom he fought for. “I did my best (in Belgium): I studied, opened my own busiÂness, married a Belgian woman, and spoke Flemish. But despite all that, I always […]
A National Constitutional Review Conference opened on Monday in the central Liberian city of Gbarnga. A committee charged with reviewing the country’s 1986 constitution has been soliciting suggestions from the public for possible amendments. They include the terms of office for the President, Vice President, legislators and jusÂtices, as well as superintenÂdents of the
A Rwadan, Mr Seth Karamage, has urged Nigerians to learn from the experience of Rwanda, saying the stability of Nigeria is crucial the sub-region and the entire continent. Karamage, a Conflict and Peace Consultant with the Inter-Faith Mediation Centre, Kaduna, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Friday that the Rwandan crisis […]
The government of Ebolahit Guinea, on Wednesday, urged a dialogue after the three main opposition leaders called for renewed protests against President Alpha Conde over upcoming elections. “I would like to repeat the government’s desire to find ways to restore confidence in the electoral process and to respect the constitution. But especially to preserve social
Tunisia said on Thursday that it had arrested 23 suspects in connection with last week’s jihadist massacre at the country’s national museum. “Twenty-three suspects including a woman have been arrested as part of a terrorist cell” involved in the attack, Interior Minister Najem Gharsalli told journalists, adding that “80% of this cell”
Sudan confirmed on Thursday that it had joined a Saudi-led intervention in Yemen to push back Shiite rebels advancing on the Aden stronghold of embattled President Abedrabbo Mansur Hadi. “Sudan is taking part in the military operation in Yemen,” the Sudanese armed forces press service said in an SMS sent to journalists. The military gave […]
Ex-Liberian President Charles Taylor has been ordered to serve the rest of his jail term in the UK, after losing a request to be transferred to Rwanda. He had argued that he was being denied his rights to a family life, because his wife and children had not been granted UK visas. The judges rejected this […]
