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Friday, September 20, 2013 - 09:32
The autonomous region of Somaliland is angling to become a trade and transit hub for East Africa, pouring millions of dollars into infrastructural development with the help of international financiers. But its plans are complicated by its ties to Somalia's capital city of Mogadishu.
Friday, September 20, 2013 - 09:33
New President Hasan Rouhani continued with the conciliatory tone he has adopted of late in dealing with the West, saying Saudi Arabia was a “friend and brother of Iran”
Friday, September 20, 2013 - 09:35
Piracy in open waters off the coast of Somalia has dropped significantly as a result of aggressive patrolling by international naval forces coupled with the use of private armed security contractors onboard vessels, experts said
Friday, September 20, 2013 - 09:35
The Ministry of Interior (MOI) announced on Thursday night that it arrested 68 people in the villages of Kerdasa and Nahia in Giza governorate during its security operation, which was launched Thursday morning.
Friday, September 20, 2013 - 09:37
The Islamist organization has been marked by the Egyptian army and the new regime in Cairo as the enemy, no less. And yet it could be Israel that pays the price.
Friday, September 20, 2013 - 09:37
As Rwandans head to the ballot boxes this week, there is little doubt in anyone’s mind that President Paul Kagame’s party will secure yet another victory. This has led critics to argue that the parliamentary elections are merely a smokescreen of democracy, designed to conceal the country’s true one-party politics.
Friday, September 20, 2013 - 09:39
Entire villages in parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo have emptied as civilians flee fresh rebel fighting, the U.N. peace mission in DRC said.
Friday, September 20, 2013 - 09:41
Democratic Republic of Congo has ruled out granting amnesty to some 100 senior M23 rebels, it said on Thursday, leaving open the possibility that these commanders could be pursued even after peace talks are concluded.
Friday, September 20, 2013 - 09:42
The United States is struggling to prosecute one of the prized catches in its global war on drugs, Guinea Bissau's former navy chief Jose Americo Bubo Na Tchuto, because lawyers cannot find enough translators who speak his native Kriol.
Friday, September 20, 2013 - 09:44
Nigerian forces and members of Boko Haram clashed in a shoot out near the main residential compound for lawmakers in Abuja on Friday, state security services said, the first clash involving Islamist militants in the capital this year.