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Monday, September 23, 2013 - 09:14
Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Jeffrey Gettleman finally got the opportunity to sit down with Rwanda’s controversial president Paul Kagame.
Monday, September 23, 2013 - 09:15
Mozambican President Armando Guebuza has set up a commission of military experts to discuss defence and security matters with the country's main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo.
Monday, September 23, 2013 - 09:17
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma on Sunday in New York discussed ways to further strengthen the relationship between the two organisations.
Monday, September 23, 2013 - 10:23
The Second Vice-President of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Judge Cuno Tarfusser, has responded, on behalf of the ICC President, Judge Sang-Hyun Song, to a letter from the African Union (AU) which raised issues on the ongoing ICC
proceedings against the Kenyan President, Mr. Uhuru Kenyatta, and his deputy, Mr. William Ruto.
Monday, September 23, 2013 - 10:32
The Department of State Security (DSS) on Friday confirmed it arrested 12 suspected Boko Haram members in an early morning raid at an uncompleted building in Abuja.
Monday, September 23, 2013 - 10:37
Dressed in full military fatigue and armed with anti-aircraft guns, rocket propelled grenades (RPGs) and a fleet of armoured tanks that they stole from Nigerian soldiers, the Boko Haram insurgents now stage bolder attacks and even overrun federal troops in northeast Nigeria.
Monday, September 23, 2013 - 10:40
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) yesterday said it has opened an investigation into Friday’s killing of seven squatters in an uncompleted building behind legislators’ quarters in Apo, Abuja.
Monday, September 23, 2013 - 10:53
The Somali terrorist group al-Shabab has entered the second day of a siege on the popular Westgate shopping mall in an upscale neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya. Nearly 70 people have been killed, including at least four Westerners and one retired United Nations official.
Monday, September 23, 2013 - 10:55
The White House is under pressure to ramp up counterterrorism action against al-Shabab in Somalia following the al-Qaida-linked group's deadly attack on an upscale Kenyan shopping mall that has killed and injured dozens, including Americans.
Monday, September 23, 2013 - 11:04
The attack on the Westgate shopping centre in Nairobi by Islamist militants from the Somali-based al-Shabaab terrorist group is a direct product of the long-running failure of western powers and African Union countries to end more than 20 years of anarchy in the "failed state" of Somalia. But it also reflects the outcome of a brutal power struggle within al-Shabaab that has brought the group's hardline global jihadist wing to the fore.