Africa
Magical views from top of the world for solar eclipse
All eyes were turned to the heavens early Friday for a solar eclipse offering spectacular views from selected airplane seats, European countries ...Sierra Leone president sacks deputy for seeking asylum in U.S. embassy
Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma has sacked Vice President Samuel Sam-Sumana for seeking asylum in a foreign embassy, a statement from ...UN, Sudan in talks on Darfur peacekeeping force
The United Nations and Sudan began talks in Khartoum Tuesday to prepare for an eventual orderly withdrawal of UN/African Union peacekeepers from ...Sierra Leone vice president requests asylum at U.S. embassy
Sierra Leone\'s vice president, Samuel Sam-Sumana, said on Saturday that he had requested asylum at the U.S. embassy in Freetown after soldiers ...Angola storm death toll rises to 69, half of them children
The death toll from torrential rains that pounded the Angolan town of Lobito has risen to 69, including 36 children, officials said ...36 towns now retaken from Boko Haram, says Nigeria
Nigeria said on Wednesday that 36 towns had been retaken from Boko Haram since the start of a four-nation military offensive, voicing ...Chad and Niger begin offensive against Boko Haram in Nigeria
Forces from Chad and Niger opened a new front in the regional military fight against the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram, as ...At least 47 dead in northeast Nigeria bomb attacks
Three bombings in northeast Nigeria\'s city of Maiduguri on Saturday killed at least 47 people, including children, and wounded 50, witnesses told ...Three Europeans shot dead in Mali restaurant
Three Europeans and two locals were shot dead on Saturday in a busy restaurant in the Malian capital in what security sources ...Ex-minister arrested for Gaddafi funds to Sarkozy campaign
Former French interior minister Claude Gueant was taken into custody on Friday in connection with a probe into the alleged financing by ...