The Rod of Asclepius is mistaken as a symbol of snake worshipping in a high quality and nearly free clinic in Kenya’s largest slum of Kibera.
Somali pirates captured a supertanker carrying an estimated $150-million worth of oil to the Gulf of Mexico.
Voters standing in a second day of long lines in Southern Sudan’s capital sat patiently and rested against concrete walls for hours to cast ballots.
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/ 23 November 2010
The pope’s suggestion that condoms could be used in limited situations has grabbed the attention of Africa which has a soaring number of Catholics.
The Rwandan refugee was walking home one night when four men jumped him and put him in a stranglehold. He lay still, pretending to be dead.
A dozen young boys stood at the edge of a football field, one that looks typically African — patchy grass at the edges, dark red dirt in the middle.
Caroline Aya was playing in front of her house in January when a neighbour put a cloth over her mouth and fled with her.
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/ 3 November 2009
There is new hope for Africa’s battle against malaria, which claims the lives of more than one million children on the continent every year.
Insurgents exploded a suicide car bomb and launched two mortar shells at Iraq’s interior ministry during National Police Day celebrations on Monday, killing 29 people and injuring 18, officials said. The United States ambassador and Iraq’s interior and defence ministers were in attendance but were far from the attacks.