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Tuesday, August 6, 2013 - 07:42
At least 35 people have been killed in two attacks by militants in northern Nigeria, the authorities have said.
Tuesday, August 6, 2013 - 07:45
Zimbabwe's election is receiving wide criticism after longtime President Robert Mugabe swept the vote in an election the opposition says was rigged.
Tuesday, August 6, 2013 - 07:49
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s M23 rebels threatened Saturday to retake the eastern city of Goma if Kinshasa reneged on its pledge to start direct talks. The M23 seized Goma last November and only pulled out under strong international pressure.
Tuesday, August 6, 2013 - 07:52
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court says that after a preliminary investigation she believes that acts attributed to the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram are likely crimes against humanity.
Tuesday, August 6, 2013 - 07:54
Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region said on Monday it had cut all ties with the central government in a likely setback to efforts to pacify the Horn of Africa Country as it emerges from two decades of conflict.
Tuesday, August 6, 2013 - 07:55
At least ten bomb explosions have rocked Somalia's capital Mogadishu shortly after residents broke Sunday's Ramadan fast according to witnesses, Garowe Online reports.
Tuesday, August 6, 2013 - 07:57
The U.S. State Department closed its embassies in four sub-Saharan African nations as part of a heightened security alert, days before the 15th anniversary of al-Qaida's bombings of American diplomatic missions in Kenya and Tanzania.
Tuesday, August 6, 2013 - 08:06
Faced with the continuing security crisis, the Prime Minister, Ali Zeidan, has taken the step of temporarily replacing the full cabinet with an emergency streamlined one. The move – in effect creating an inner cabinet – was announced last night.
Tuesday, August 6, 2013 - 08:10
The Army fired Tuesday tear gas in the northern city of Tripoli to disperse angry supporters of a Salafist preacher who was sentenced earlier in the day to 15 years of hard labor over a 2008 attack on the military.
Tuesday, August 6, 2013 - 08:13
The military will soon make internal reforms to reduce corruption and limit officers' ties with politicians, Lebanese Army chief Gen. Jean Kahwagi said Tuesday.