WHO: Ebola outbreak is international health emergency
The World Health Organisation declared the Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo to be a “public health emergency of international concern”, saying the recent...
Africa
U.N. calls for hundreds of millions in more aid to fight Ebola
Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ebola outbreak could last much longer and cost far more in money and lives unless U.N. member states inject hundreds of millions of...
Suicide car bomb targets hotel in Somali port city
MOGADISHU, July 12 (Reuters) – A car bomb went off on Friday at a hotel in Somalia’s port city of Kismayu where local elders and lawmakers...
Huge blast in hotel in Somalia’s Kismayu, followed by gunfire – police
A car bomb went off in a hotel in Somalia‘s port city of Kismayu where local elders and lawmakers were meeting, followed by gunfire, a police...
Bombed Tripoli migrant detention centre being emptied
A migrant detention centre in Tripoli, hit by a deadly air strike last week, is being gradually emptied following a decision by Libyan authorities to release...
Court convicts Congo’s Ntaganda of war crimes
Judges at the International Criminal Court on Monday convicted Bosco Ntaganda, a former Congolese military leader, on charges of atrocities including murder, rape and conscripting child soldiers....
Sudan’s military council, opposition reach power-sharing agreement
Sudan‘s ruling military council and a coalition of opposition and protest groups have agreed to share power for three years and then hold elections, in...
At least 40 killed in strike on Tripoli migrant detention centre
By Ahmed Elumami TRIPOLI, July 2 (Reuters) – An air strike late on Tuesday hit a detention centre for mainly African migrants in a suburb...
Accident at Glencore mine kills at least 39 in Congo
At least 39 artisanal miners were killed on Thursday when part of a copper and cobalt mine owned byGlencore collapsed in southeast Congo, the provincial governor...
Stampede in Madagascar crowd kills 15 and wounds 75
At least 15 people were killed and 75 wounded in a stampede at a stadium after a military parade in Madagascar’s capital on Wednesday to...
