Africa
Al- Shabaab kill 180 Kenyan soldiers
At least 180 Kenyan soldiers were killed in Somalia in an extremist attack on their base in January by al-Shabab, Somalia\'s president ...Comoros begins presidential election
Voters in the Indian Ocean archipelago of the Comoros began casting their ballots for a new president Sunday from a crowded field ...Cameroon forces kill 162 Boko Haram extremists, retake town
Cameroon\'s special forces have killed 162 Boko Haram militants in Nigeria\'s northeastern town of Goshi, destroying bomb factories and weapons to retake ...58 die in Nigeria suicide bomb attacks
Two female suicide bombers killed at least 58 at a camp for people made homeless by Boko Haram\'s Islamist insurgency in northeast ...South Sudan troops suffocated 50 people in container
South Sudan government troops killed about 50 people by stuffing them into a shipping container in baking heat, ceasefire monitors said in ...Boko Haram burns kids alive in Nigeria, 86 dead
A survivor hidden in a tree says he watched Boko Haram extremists firebomb huts and heard the screams of children burning to ...Millions of Ethiopians facing worst drought for decades: UN
Ethiopia is struggling from its worst drought for 30 years with millions in dire need of life saving aid, UN Secretary-General Ban ...At least 12 killed in suicide blasts in north Nigeria
At least 12 people were killed on Wednesday when two female suicide bombers blew themselves up in a market in the northern ...Ivory Coast ex-leader Gbagbo denies crimes against humanity
Former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo Thursday pleaded "not guilty" to four charges of crimes against humanity as his landmark trial opened five ...Sudan opens border with South Sudan for first time since 2011
Sudan\'s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir ordered the opening of his country\'s border with South Sudan for the first time since the south\'s ...




