Africa
14 boys dead in South African province after botched circumcisions
Traditional circumcision ceremonies in South Africa\'s Eastern Cape province, where the rite-of-passage practice is common, have left 14 boys dead and 141 ...South Sudan promises probe into claims girls raped, burnt alive
South Sudan\'s government said Sunday it was investigating United Nations allegations that its troops raped then burnt girls alive inside their homes ...Tunisia declares state of emergency after terror attack
Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi declared a state of emergency on Saturday to give his government more powers following an Islamic militant ...Sleepless nights for father of girl allegedly abused by French soldier
Ben Ouedraogo hasn\'t been able to sleep since the discovery of a video that appears to show a French soldier sexually abusing ...Boko Haram kills nearly 200 in 48 hours of Nigeria slaughter
Boko Haram carried out a fresh wave of massacres in northeastern Nigeria on Friday, locals said, killing nearly 200 people in 48 ...Nigeria returns 10,000 euros to French love scam victim
Nigeria\'s anti-graft agency said Thursday it had returned 10,000 euros to a French man who thought he met a beautiful Nigerian woman ...UN declares Burundi elections not free or credible
Elections in Burundi that were wracked by violence and boycotted by the opposition were not free or credible, United Nations observers said, ...UN declares highest-level aid emergency in Yemen
The United Nations on Wednesday declared Yemen a level-3 humanitarian emergency, the highest on its scale, to step up urgently-needed international aid ...Britain mourns 15 dead in Tunisia attack
Three members of the same family were among at least 15 Britons killed in the Tunisia attack, reports said Sunday, in Britain\'s ...Thousands of Britons to be flown home after Tunisia massacre
Thousands of British tourists were being flown home Saturday after the Tunisian beach massacre claimed by the Islamic State group, travel firms ...




