Reuters
Friday, October 18, 2013 - 08:50
Pirate attacks off Nigeria's coast have jumped by a third this year with ships passing through West Africa's Gulf of Guinea, a major commodities hub, increasingly under threat from gangs wanting to snatch cargoes and crews.
Friday, October 18, 2013 - 08:22
Saudi Arabia, Chad and Nigeria were elected by the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday to serve a two-year term on the U.N. Security Council as human rights groups called for all three countries to improve their records.
Thursday, October 17, 2013 - 12:30
At least seven firms, five of them American, have abandoned projects, frozen activities or sold stakes worth billions of dollars in Libya, Algeria and Egypt in the past 18 months alone.
Wednesday, October 16, 2013 - 08:51
Nigeria's military said on Tuesday it had killed 40 Islamist militants while repelling a coordinated attack in three parts of northeastern Borno state, in the heartland of their insurgency.
Wednesday, October 16, 2013 - 08:50
France, whose troops this year halted an Islamist assault towards Mali's capital, is now in demand from another of its former African colonies.
Wednesday, October 16, 2013 - 08:39
Relations between the United States and Egypt are now in turmoil and the entire Middle East could suffer, the Egyptian foreign minister said in remarks made a week after Washington moved to curtail military aid to Cairo.
Tuesday, October 15, 2013 - 09:50
Two Somali suicide bombers who had planned to kill soccer fans during Ethiopia's World Cup qualifying match against Nigeria on Sunday blew themselves up accidentally before carrying out the attack, the Ethiopian government said on Monday.
Tuesday, October 15, 2013 - 09:08
"We think that the proposal we have made has the capacity to make a breakthrough. We had a very serious and good meeting this morning," he told reporters.
Tuesday, October 15, 2013 - 08:29
Israel urged world powers resuming nuclear talks with Iran on Tuesday to demand a full rollback of Tehran's atomic program and not to ease economic sanctions prematurely.
Tuesday, October 15, 2013 - 07:37
Egypt's Interior Ministry, which controls all of the country's police forces including state security and riot police, never forgot the chaos.