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Tomorrow is the third anniversary of the epoch-shaping onslaught on New York and Washington but a string of other al-Qaeda attacks since 1998 has left little mark on our…
United States Secretary of State Colin Powell acknowledged on Friday that pre-war information he gave the United Nations on Iraq’s chemical and biological weapons laboratories to…
Pakistani troops battling suspected al-Qaeda fighters in Pakistan’s lawless north this week discovered a 1,6km-long tunnel running through the battlefield, through which senior…
Qummergal grimaced as she bared her face to a camera for the first time. But when she saw her portrait, she giggled with delight. ”I can’t believe it’s me,” she said. ”Look at…
Across impoverished southern and eastern Afghanistan, the Taliban’s tribal homeland, a desperate pattern is emerging. Military analysts and aid agency bosses in Kabul say the…
Lawyers campaigning to win more than £10-million compensation from the Ministry of Defence for hundreds of Kenyan women who say they were raped by British soldiers said…
Liberia’s embattled president, Charles Taylor, accepted an offer of asylum in Nigeria yesterday but gave no indication of when he would leave and insisted that it must be an…
A Boeing 727 cargo plane which caused panic among US intelligence agencies after mysteriously disappearing from Angola’s main airport turned up last week in Guinea.
The road to Monrovia is a bloodstained path strewn with surreal violence. More than 400 000 people have been killed and millions displaced in a tangled regional conflict…
It was time for a break at Clay Junction, Liberia’s front line about 50 kilometres north of the capital, Monrovia, and the kids wanted something to smoke. Boy soldiers in women’s…
Ragged children sang and an elderly woman beamed toothlessly for the cameras as a convoy of French special forces rolled slowly through the Bunia suburb of Nyakasanza, the sun…
South Africa said on Sunday it will provide troops for the international peacekeeping force set to deploy in turbulent northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where…
Brazzaville does not make the news very often. Its main problems — civil war, crushing poverty, corruption, Aids — are those of its country’s bigger and better-known…
Guinea is one of the poorest, most isolated countries. Its seven million people live on about a year for an average of 40 years. Now, by a quirk of international relations, the…
The French foreign legionnaires reach a blind spot in the red earth track, halt, and drop silently as cats into western Ivory Coast’s tangled bush. They crouch there, listening.…
Both sides in Côte d’Ivoire’s four-month civil war said they believed peace talks that started this week could end the conflict.. ”I am optimistic. I think we will find solutions…
Thousands of children are being smuggled into Europe from war-ravaged Somalia every year, with Britain the most popular destination, according to a UN report released yesterday.
For a man charged with leading a government of more than 10 discordant parties and several former ministers with questionable pasts, Kenya’s president-elect, Mwai Kibaki, made a…
Uhuru Kenyatta owes a lot to his name. Less than a year after entering politics, the 42-year-old son of Kenya’s founding father will fight the presidential election next month…
The World Food Programme made a renewed plea to the over-stretched aid community this week for funds to feed up to 14-million people facing starvation in the Horn of Africa. It…
