Africa
Turkey newspaper defiant after raid as police disperse protests
A leading Turkish newspaper opposed to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and seized by authorities warned of the "darkest days" in the history ...76 hungry Boko Haram members surrender to Nigerian military
Dozens of emaciated-looking Boko Haram members begging for food have surrendered in northeast Nigeria, the military and a civilian self-defense fighter said ...At least 16 killed in prison fire in Guyana
A riot at an overcrowded maximum security prison in Guyana Thursday has left 16 inmates dead, prison authorities said.Suspected Ugandan rebels kill 13 in DR Congo
Suspected Ugandan rebels killed 13 civilians in an overnight raid on a village in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the army said ...Islamist group kills 17 in twin blasts in Somali town
Somalia\'s al Shabaab Islamist group bombed a busy junction and a nearby restaurant on Sunday in the town of Baidoa, killing at ...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 ...