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Somali training camps fuel threat of attacks on US
Mon, 30th Nov
The recruits gather in scorching desert hideouts in Somalia, use portraits of President Barack Obama for target practice, learn how to make and detonate bombs, and vow allegiance to Osama bin Laden.
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Dismembered African albinos sell for $75,000
Sun, 29th Nov
Thousands of Africa's albinos are in hiding, fearful of losing their lives to dealers who sell dismembered bodies.
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Tunisian court hands journalist 6-month sentence
Fri, 27th Nov
A journalist known for his critical stance toward Tunisia's government has been sentenced to six months in prison for what his lawyer called a trumped-up assault charge.
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UN group arrives in Guinea to investigate killings
Fri, 27th Nov
A peaceful pro-democracy rally in the West African country took a violent turn when presidential guard troops opened fire on tens of thousands of demonstrators.
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Freed foreign journalists in Kenyan hospital
Fri, 27th Nov
Two foreign journalists freed after 15 months in captivity in Somalia are receiving medical care in neighbouring Kenya, Canada's ambassador said.
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Namibian elections to return ruling party to power
Fri, 27th Nov
Namibia's longtime ruling party is expected to return to power.
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Experts: Nigerian pirates may be extending reach
Fri, 27th Nov
A bloody pirate attack off Benin's coast is raising concerns that Nigerian pirates are extending their reach.
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UN report: Congo rebel network spans 25 countries
Thu, 26th Nov
One of Africa's most brutal rebel movements relies on a vast, international network of supporters in at least 25 countries including in the United States and Europe, a United Nations report said.
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Furry felons: Baboons take to thievery in South Africa
Wed, 25th Nov
Visitors to South Africa's premier holiday destination who are worried about becoming victims of the country's high crime rate could find themselves instead robbed by a more furry kind of felon: baboons.
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Bullet tears open Somali boy's face
Tue, 24th Nov
The bullet tore through the little boy's cheekbones, nose and mouth. Blood gushed down to his waist.
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Ugandans upset over Chavez' kind words for Amin
Mon, 23rd Nov
Ugandan officials were offended after Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wondered out loud whether Ugandan dictator Idi Amin was truly as brutal as he was reputed to be.
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Kenya unveils constitution to avoid vote violence
Fri, 20th Nov
A government-appointed panel this week unveiled a draft constitution that is part of wide-ranging efforts to avoid a repeat of political violence that saw more than 1,000 people killed after Kenya's December 2007 presidential elections.
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Activist probing Guinea massacre denied entry
Fri, 20th Nov
A human rights activist says he's been denied entrance to Guinea, where he planned to investigate a massacre of opposition supporters earlier this year.
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US ship repels pirates with guns and sound blasts
Thu, 19th Nov
Guards aboard the Maersk Alabama used guns and a sound blaster to repel the second pirate attack in seven months on the US vessel at a time when ships are increasingly hiring armed security teams to thwart hijackings.
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Somali pirates free 36 hostages, claim US$3 million ransom
Wed, 18th Nov
Pirates have freed 36 crew members from a Spanish trawler, and a self-proclaimed pirate said the hostage-takers were paid US$3.3 million in ransom.
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New Greenpeace chief has fought apartheid, poverty
Tue, 17th Nov
An African has taken over as director of Greenpeace, bringing experience honed as a teenage opponent of white rule in South Africa and a network of powerful contacts to the battle against global warming.
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Food summit turns down UN funding appeal
Tue, 17th Nov
Pope Benedict XVI decried the worsening plight of the world's 1 billion hungry at the United Nations food summit.
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Nigeria militants start peace talks with president
Mon, 16th Nov
Nigeria's main militant group in the oil-rich Delta region said that it has started formal peace talks with the country's president for the first time since it declared an indefinite cease-fire last month.
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Ugandan official suggests caning dead bodies
Mon, 16th Nov
A Ugandan government official says the bodies of those who die because of drinking a local illicit gin should be caned six times before burial as an example to the living.
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‘Mr Right’ dupes woman out of $50,000 in internet love scam
Wed, 25th Nov
Australian woman duped out of nearly US$50,000 by a Nigerian man who said he was her "Mr. Right"
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Britain says World Cup fans at risk of carjacking
Wed, 25th Nov
That will leave most fans hiring cars or taking taxis.
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Baby gorillas to get new sanctuary in east Congo
Mon, 23rd Nov
Conservationists say Congolese schoolchildren will soon be able to take a closer look at baby mountain gorillas.
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Plane misses runway in east Congo, landing in lava
Fri, 20th Nov
A passenger plane overshot the runway, landing in hardened lava surrounding an airport in eastern Congo and injuring 20 people, a UN-run radio station reported.
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Ethiopian court convicts 26 in alleged coup plot
Fri, 20th Nov
An Ethiopian court has convicted 26 people who were accused of taking part in an alleged coup plot earlier this year and acquitted five others.
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Somali woman stoned to death for adultery
Thu, 19th Nov
A judge for an Islamic militant group in Somalia says a woman has been stoned to death and her boyfriend given 100 lashes for having an affair.
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Thais nabbed on charges of trading African ivory
Wed, 18th Nov
Thai police arrested two men on charges of smuggling African ivory into the country to supply shops that sell jewelry and trinkets, including to customers in the United States, authorities said.
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Somali pirates hijack ship, 28 North Korean crew
Wed, 18th Nov
Pirates off the coast of Somalia have attacked two vessels, and at least one of those has been captured.
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Gadhafi hosts young Italian women, tries to convert them
Tue, 17th Nov
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has hosted a soiree in Rome for some 200 young Italian women.
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Mozambique: Watchdog decries killings by police
Mon, 16th Nov
The dancer called police to his home because he feared he was being robbed, only to end up being killed by the officers from whom he had sought help, Amnesty International said, offering one example of deadly police violence in Mozambique.
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Kenya harvest example on reversing food shortage
Mon, 16th Nov
The discernible change a season's harvest of rice has brought to the western Kenyan town of Ahero also helps illustrate a message the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation has trumpeted this year.
