Conflict
Monday, December 16, 2013 - 08:49
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the Security Council have strongly condemned an attack in the north-eastern Malian town of Kidal that killed two blue helmets and left several others, including members of the national armed forces, injured.
Monday, December 16, 2013 - 08:43
It was supposed to be a regular shopping trip to a Kenyan mall until Faith Wambua found herself playing dead for bullet-spraying militants, in an ordeal that capped a year of Islamist violence across the continent affecting countless ordinary Africans.
Monday, December 16, 2013 - 08:40
The Christian militiamen fighting to oust Central African Republic's Muslim president from power hide in the hills far on the edge of the capital. Out of the forest of banana trees, about two dozen young men slowly emerge to meet their visitors - armed with clubs, machetes and hunting rifles.
Monday, December 16, 2013 - 08:34
Once again, French television screens are full of images of joyous Africans welcoming French troops. In January, the French military intervened in Mali to help liberate large swaths of the country from radical jihadists. Now, for the second time this year, France has sent troops into an African country to quell violence.
Monday, December 16, 2013 - 08:32
A senior US official on Monday accused both the Syrian regime and radical rebel factions of blocking humanitarian aid inside the war-ravaged country.
Monday, December 16, 2013 - 08:30
President's delegation in stand-off with armed Seleka fighters at Bangui airport during talks on France's military operation, French newspaper reports
Monday, December 16, 2013 - 08:28
U.S. officials may meet commanders from Syria's Islamic Front this week, the State Department said, after the grouping took control of weapon depots belonging to the Western-backed opposition.
Monday, December 16, 2013 - 08:12
The UN peacekeeping mission in Mali has confirmed the deaths of two soldiers, who were killed while guarding a bank.
Monday, December 16, 2013 - 08:11
Syrian government aircraft pounded opposition areas near the southern border with Jordan and in the northern city of Aleppo on Monday, a day after a series of airstrikes on the contested city killed at least 76 people, activists said.
Monday, December 16, 2013 - 07:56
South Sudan's president has said groups within the country's security forces are plotting a coup, hours after heavy gunfire rang out in the capital Juba.