Three people were killed after suicide bombers attacked an African Union peacekeeping base in the Somali capital on Monday.
Five simultaneous suicide attacks targeted African Union bases in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, officials have said.
An advocacy group on Sunday said new satellite images provide evidence that northern Sudanese troops have committed war crimes.
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/ 26 December 2009
A helicopter fired warning shots toward a suspected pirate skiff, where six Somali men sat among assault rifles, grappling hooks and a ladder.
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/ 10 September 2009
A drought in Kenya is so bad that it is even felling the giants of the animal kingdom — the country’s famed elephants.
Nigeria and Angola are Africa’s top two oil producers, yet most of their people live in poverty, often in settlements dwarfed by derricks.
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/ 8 December 2008
Foreign troops should prepare to intervene in Zimbabwe to end a worsening humanitarian crisis, the Kenyan prime minister said on Sunday.
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/ 17 November 2008
Hundreds of thousands of victims of a brutal 20-year insurgency in northern Uganda remain destitute and traumatised, Amnesty International says.
Kenyan armed forces are accused of preventing aid workers from helping families caught between a brutal militia and an army crackdown.
Dozens of children filed silently into the room, their eyes on the cracks in the floor. One by one they told of being tortured by the Kenyan army.