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Al-Qaeda Affiliate Claims Mali Car Bomb Attack In Gao

Al-Qaeda's North African affiliate says a group linked to it carried out the suicide attack that killed at least 50...

International

Exiled Gambians Ponder Return To Troubled Homeland

Musa Saidykhan still feels the ache in the scars knotting across his back when the temperature drops every winter in...

International

Israeli PM Netanyahu Backs Pardon For Manslaughter Soldier

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for a pardon for a soldier convicted of manslaughter for killing...

International

Church Calls For Peace After Deadly Clashes

The Catholic Church in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has appealed for a resolution to the ongoing political...

International

Ethiopia Says Oromo Leader Detained For Meeting Terrorist Group In Brussels

Ethiopian authorities have clarified that leading opposition figure and Chairman of the Oromo Federalist Congress...

Opinion

Pink Sheeting An African Election

By the time Charlotte “lip gloss” Osei, Ghana's electoral Commissioner conceded defeat to the NPP and Nana Addo...

International

‘I’m the Legal President of This Country,’ Barrow Tells BBC

Gambia's President-elect Adama Barrow has told the BBC he will declare himself president on 18 January regardless of...

Opinion

Yaya Jammeh Irreparably Damaged His Already Shoddy Legacy

I have always been one to reserve judgement about the Legacy of Yaya Jammeh of The Gambia. But no more! He is the...

International

How China Fights Corruption

The gray, concrete building looms over the street in central Beijing. Completely unmarked aside from a street number,...

Opinion

Musings Of A Naïve African

Africa or African states largely have reasonable cause to reconsider their membership of the International Criminal...

International

Justin Trudeau Will Not Attend Fidel Castro’s Funeral

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau must have been feeling the heat. Mr Trudeau will not attend Fidel Castro's...

International

S. Africa Divided Over ICC Withdrawal

South Africans are divided over the country's decision to pull out of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Last...

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Myanmar Wants Ethnic Cleansing of Rohingya

Myanmar is seeking the ethnic cleansing of the Muslim Rohingya minority from its territory, a senior UN official has...

International

Don’t Light An Electoral Bushfire

The Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh has warned his supporters that violence was like "bushfire" that could destroy the...

Opinion

A Nonviolent Strategy To Liberate Syria

In early 2011, as the Arab Spring was moving across North Africa and the Middle East, small groups of nonviolent...

International

Islamic State Kills Civilians In Mosul To Deter Support For Army

Islamic State has summarily killed 21 civilians in Mosul it accused of collaborating with U. S.-backed security forces,...

International

Mugabe Says ‘sorry’

The Robert Mugabe regime says it is sorry for killing many Chiadzwa diamond field victims. The government has come out...

International

China Police Official To Head Interpol

A high-level Chinese police official has been elected president of Interpol, the international police organisation,...

International

Nigeria Sends Female Police To Protect Boko Haram Victims

Police in the north-eastern Nigerian state of Borno say they have deployed 100 female officers to camps for those who...