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Fighters loyal to Libya’s interim government are battling for full control of Muammar Gaddafi’s birthplace where diehards are holed up.
Libyan rebel chief Mustafa Abdel Jalil says "the end is very near" for Moammar Gadaffi and that it will be "catastrophic".
A high-level panel named by the African Union faces an uphill battle in agreeing a unified stand on Côte d’Ivoire’s political crisis.
It was business as usual as the AU’s two-day summit stuck to its planned schedule, despite the problems in Tunisia, Egypt, Sudan and Côte d’Ivoire.
African leaders will try to bridge their divide over the crisis in Côte d’Ivoire as they meet for a summit this weekend.
The draft UN mapping report detailing crimes by armed forces in the DRC is an inventory of atrocities committed with impunity over a 10-year period.
After a worrying setback when their Somali government allies deserted their posts, AU troops in Mogadishu managed to contain the situation.
Up to half of the food aid intended for needy Somalis is routinely diverted, according to a United Nations report.
VIPs on Friday feted the first year of Somali President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed’s shaky rule as fighting rocked a theatre where they were gathered.
In a khaki tent shielded by sandbags, four Ugandan officers are watching Black Hawk Down.
Two journalists from Canada and Australia flew out of Somalia on Thursday at the end of a 15-month hostage ordeal.
”If I’d met you in the street I wouldn’t have spared you,” Mohamed Sheikh Abdullahi said, only half smiling.
In the space of a month, Yoweri Museveni’s 23-year-old grip on Uganda appears to have been rattled by deadly riots and the return of a major rival.
Rebel National Congress for the Defence of the People forces led by renegade Tutsi general Laurent Nkunda have taken over the centre at Mabenga.
Just a few hundred metres separate the army and rebels near Kibati in the DRC’s volatile east, where hundreds cross the front line daily.
The UN’s special envoy was set to meet on Saturday with DRC rebel leader Laurent Nkunda after a fresh onslaught by his troops shattered a truce.
Marwan was in a hurry. Stuck in traffic in the mixed west Baghdad district of Al-Jihad, the Sunni Arab taxi driver took a short-cut down a side street inhabited by Shi’ites and…
Rebel leaders controlling half of the West African state of Côte d’Ivoire said on Tuesday their forces have begun pulling back from sections of the front line as agreed under an…
Warring factions in Côte d’Ivoire are set to take tentative steps towards peace on Thursday with voter registration trials and the beginnings of a disarmament process in the…
