Reuters (UK)
Thursday, August 15, 2013 - 11:39
Nigerian soldiers have killed the second-in-command of the Islamist sect Boko Haram, an insurgency that has caused the deaths of thousands in the last three years, the Ministry of Defense said Wednesday.
It said Momodu Bama, who had a $155,000 bounty on his head, was killed along with 17 other members of the sect during clashes with the military on Aug. 4 in Bama, a town in the northeastern state of Borno.
Wednesday, August 14, 2013 - 15:27
Tunisia on Monday carried out air strikes on Islamist militants holed up in the Mount Chaambi area near the Algerian border, an army source said, stepping up a campaign against radical jihadis under pressure from the secular opposition.
Wednesday, August 14, 2013 - 11:53
Jordan let a Syrian opposition leader cross into Syria from its territory for the first time on Thursday, signaling greater backing from an Arab ally for the opposition battling against Syrian President Bashar Assad.
Wednesday, August 14, 2013 - 10:30
Russian President Vladimir Putin failed to clinch a concrete energy deal on a rare trip to Azerbaijan on Tuesday, dashing Moscow's hopes to challenge the dominance of Western energy majors in the former Soviet republic.
Wednesday, August 14, 2013 - 08:14
Guinea-Bissau has made its first extradition of a suspected drug trafficker, it said on Tuesday, part of an effort to shake off its international reputation as a 'narco-state'.
The West African country handed over Telmo Perez Fernandes to Spanish authorities on Sunday, the justice ministry said. The 48-year-old Spanish citizen was arrested on June 5 at the request of the Spanish police.
Monday, August 12, 2013 - 13:04
An Ethiopian military aircraft carrying ammunition crash-landed at Mogadishu's international airport on Friday, bursting into flames and killing four of the six crew members.
Monday, August 12, 2013 - 11:48
Nigerian ironworker Ba Kaka initially felt sympathy for Boko Haram's violent uprising against a state he and many others saw as corrupt, un-Islamic and kowtowing to Western ideology.
But as deaths mounted in the Islamist sect's bloody campaign against state institutions, security services, Christians and even school children in northeast Nigeria, he began to see them as a threat to his life and livelihood.
Monday, August 12, 2013 - 11:40
Deposed former Central African Republic (CAR) President Francois Bozize still nurtures ambitions of returning to power, he told French media, ending months of silence since he was ousted by rebel forces in March.
Wednesday, August 7, 2013 - 07:18
A former Burundian Hutu rebel leader believed by authorities to have been in exile in the Congo for almost three years said on Tuesday he would take a second stab at the presidency in 2015 elections.
Wednesday, August 7, 2013 - 07:07
Saudi King Abdullah has appointed Prince Sultan bin Salman, the tourism minister as a new deputy defence minister in a move that strengthens his credentials for future high office in the kingdom.