Reuters (UK)
Thursday, September 5, 2013 - 07:27
More than 100,000 people were smuggled out of eastern Africa in 2012, heroin seizures are soaring and ivory poaching has risen to levels that could threaten local elephant populations, the United Nations said in a report on organised crime on Tuesday.
Thursday, September 5, 2013 - 07:24
The International Criminal Court's cases against Kenya's president and deputy will go ahead, the prosecutor said on Thursday in a statement released hours before the Kenyan parliament votes on withdrawing from the court's jurisdiction.
Wednesday, September 4, 2013 - 13:07
Somalia's president has escaped unhurt from an ambush on his military-escorted motorcade that the armed group al-Shabaab said it carried out.
Wednesday, September 4, 2013 - 13:06
Tunisia's PM says that he will not step down before drafting the new constitution reach agreement with all the parties on the election plan.
Wednesday, September 4, 2013 - 07:21
Top Abbas aide Yasser Abed Rabbo says negotiations will not bear fruit without more pressure from the US, adds continued settlement building undermines talks; PMO declines response on comments.
Tuesday, September 3, 2013 - 12:11
Egypt's army-backed government unveiled a constituent assembly on Sunday almost devoid of Islamists.
Tuesday, September 3, 2013 - 12:09
Armed groups, security guards and oil workers with tribal loyalties have shut down pipelines and oil ports across the country.
Tuesday, September 3, 2013 - 07:35
The panel's advice to a court to remove its non-governmental organization status threatens the million-member movement's future in politics.
Friday, August 30, 2013 - 07:42
Mali's interim government has removed General Amadou Sanogo, who led a coup last year, as head of a military committee tasked with reforming the West African country's armed forces, a government statement said.
Wednesday, August 28, 2013 - 12:26
Libya's largest western oilfields closed when an armed group shut down the pipeline linking them to ports, its deputy oil minister said on Tuesday, reducing its oil output to a trickle.