Reuters
Thursday, November 21, 2013 - 09:01
Mozambicans voted on Wednesday in local elections, haunted by nagging fears of conflict as the ruling Frelimo party confronts an emerging political rival and an old civil war guerrilla chief who has taken his fight back to the bush.
Thursday, November 21, 2013 - 00:00
President Cristina Fernandez's new Cabinet picks this week confirmed a deepening of Argentina's left-leaning economic model rather than a policy switch.
Thursday, November 21, 2013 - 00:00
"I am doing it because when you can see the light at the end of the tunnel you don't turn back"
Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - 11:00
Three suspected al Qaeda militants were killed in an air strike in eastern Yemen on Tuesday, residents and a local official said.
Tuesday, November 19, 2013 - 12:33
U.N.-backed African Union peacekeepers in Somalia, bolstered by more than 4,000 new soldiers, may return to the attack against al Qaeda-linked militants, a senior AU commander said on Monday.
Tuesday, November 19, 2013 - 12:05
A United Arab Emirates court has jailed a man for two years for tweeting about a political trial and Kuwait handed a five-year prison term to a Kuwaiti Twitter user for insulting the Prophet Mohammad, activists and a lawyer said on Tuesday.
Tuesday, November 19, 2013 - 00:00
A reinsertion program offers job training, a monthly stipend and amnesty for minor crimes like firearms possession.
Monday, November 18, 2013 - 12:52
Assailants from the Central African Republic raided a village in eastern Cameroon but the army repulsed the attack, killing five gunmen, Cameroon Defense Minister Edgar Allain Mebe Ngo'o said on Sunday.
Monday, November 18, 2013 - 12:47
In the gloom of a hilltop cave in Nigeria where she was held captive, Hajja had a knife pressed to her throat by a man who gave her a choice - convert to Islam or die.
Monday, November 18, 2013 - 12:42
Chad has launched a helicopter attack on Chadian rebels in Darfur and sent a military convoy to the region, according to humanitarian workers and an opposition group, after Sudan announced a military campaign to end rebellions in the area.