War_Conflict
Security Forces Storm Opposition HQ After Parliament Set On Fire
Violence has broken out in the Gabonese capital Libreville after President Ali Bongo was declared winner of Saturday's...
Zimbabwe Protest Day Flops After Crackdown Vow
Harare (AFP) - Shops and offices opened as usual across Zimbabwe on Wednesday despite a planned "shutdown" protest...
Tanzania Opposition Postpones Protests Against ‘dictatorship’
Dar es Salaam (AFP) - Tanzania's main opposition party on Wednesday postponed for a month promised protests against...
Bongo To Be Declared Winner of Gabon Election
Libreville (AFP) - Gabon's president Ali Bongo was set to be declared winner of last weekend's contested election,...
Clashes As Gabon’s Bongo Narrowly Wins Re-Election
Libreville (AFP) - Gabon's president Ali Bongo was declared winner Thursday of contested weekend elections, extending...
Two Jihadists Killed In Tunisia Raid
Kasserine (Tunisia) (AFP) - Two suspected jihadists were killed in a nighttime raid by security forces in the Kasserine...
Gabon Parliament Set Ablaze After Bongo Declared Winner
Libreville (AFP) - Angry protesters torched Gabon's parliament Wednesday after President Ali Bongo was declared winner...
Brazil’s Rousseff Dilma Removed From Office By Impeachment Vote
Brazil's Senate has voted to remove President Dilma Rousseff from office for manipulating the budget. It puts an end to...
Kerry In Kenya For Regional Security Talks
Nairobi (AFP) - With a peace deal unravelling in South Sudan and jihadist attacks continuing in Somalia, US Secretary...
Additional Funding For Kenya and Somalia
Today, Secretary of State John Kerry announced in Nairobi that the United States is providing more than $146 million in...
Boko Haram’s Shekau ‘wounded’ In Air Strike
Lagos (AFP) - Nigeria's military claimed Tuesday to have seriously injured Boko Haram's elusive leader Abubakar Shekau...
Nigeria ‘terror Mastermind’ Appeals Conviction By S.Africa Court
Johannesburg (AFP) - A Nigerian jailed in Johannesburg for a series of terror attacks in his homeland on Wednesday...
4 Chad Troops Killed By ‘Boko Haram Mine’
N'Djamena (AFP) - Four Chadian soldiers have been killed after a mine planted by Boko Haram Islamists destroyed their...
NIgeria’s Buhari Says Boko Haram Leader ‘wounded’
Abuja (AFP) - Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said Sunday that Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau is "wounded", in...
Nigerian Rebels Claim Attack On State-Owned Pipeline
Warri (Nigeria) (AFP) - Nigerian rebels claimed a Tuesday attack on a state-owned oil pipeline and accused the military...
Five Dead In Shabaab Suicide Car Bomb At Somalia Hotel
Mogadishu (AFP) - At least five people were killed when jihadists exploded a suicide car bomb outside a popular hotel...
Qaeda-Linked Group Claims Deadly Tunisia Ambush
Tunis (AFP) - An Al-Qaeda-linked group Tuesday claimed responsibility for a blast that killed three Tunisian soldiers...
UN Reports On Western Sahara Ceasefire Violations
United Nations (United States) (AFP) - A confidential UN document accuses Morocco and the Polisario Front of ceasefire...
Suicide Attack Targets Chinese Embassy In Kyrgyzstan
A suspected suicide car bomber rammed the gates of the Chinese embassy in the capital of Kyrgyzistan, Bishkek,...