Conflict
Thursday, October 24, 2013 - 12:17
A senior Bahraini opposition politician was temporarily freed on Thursday by the court trying him on charges that include inciting terrorism, in a surprise conciliatory ruling in the U.S.-allied Gulf Arab state.
Thursday, October 24, 2013 - 11:57
The prime minister said his moderate Islamist-led government was committed to the "principle of relinquishing power in line with the different phases envisaged in the roadmap".
Thursday, October 24, 2013 - 11:53
Activists say militias hold migrants in stores, schools and abandoned buildings as well as detention centres, abusing them and holding them hostage until they receive money from the migrants’ families.
Thursday, October 24, 2013 - 11:51
But according to several senior State Department officials, some of Kerry's top advisors believe that the conference should be called off because the most important of those opposition leaders are unlikely to come.
Thursday, October 24, 2013 - 11:50
The lights went out after rebel artillery reportedly hit a gas pipeline that supplies a power station.
Thursday, October 24, 2013 - 11:46
Tunisia’s opposition Salvation Front called for more protests demanding an immediate departure of the Islamist-led government, Al Arabiya television reported on Thursday, citing media sources.
Thursday, October 24, 2013 - 11:45
The killings are blamed on militiamen who fought against Moammar Gadhafi’s forces but now operate outside state control.
Thursday, October 24, 2013 - 09:58
Four Somali pirates were sentenced to seven years each in prison on Wednesday by a Kenyan court that found them guilty of hijacking a fishing dhow in the Indian Ocean in 2010.
Thursday, October 24, 2013 - 09:36
Mozambique is on edge again about a possible return to civil war after 21 years of peace. The former rebel group Renamo says it will no longer honor a 1992 peace deal following small skirmishes between its fighters and government forces. Renamo has long complained that the civil war's victors - the ruling Frelimo party - have rigged elections to hold onto power.
Thursday, October 24, 2013 - 07:33
The United Nations says it is working on an integrated strategy to deal with the recurring crises in Africa's Sahel region. The U.N. says new approaches are needed to make vulnerable people in the nine Sahelian countries able to cope with the humanitarian emergencies that keep them in poverty and dependent on the international community for aid.