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The Ivorian government has handed youth leader Charles Ble Goude over to the International Criminal Court to face charges of crimes against humanity.
The ICC has dropped charges against Francis Muthaura, who was accused alongside Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta of sponsoring 2007 election violence.
Hundreds of soccer matches have been fixed in a global betting scam in a blow to the image of soccer and a multibillion-dollar industry.
IMF chief Christine Lagarde said armed conflicts pose the principal threat to Africa’s future development.
At least four people were killed in an exchange of fire between soldiers and unidentified gunmen at an army checkpoint in southern Cote d’Ivoire.
Former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic is expected to stay in hospital for a second day of tests after being taken ill during his war crimes trial.
A robust growth forecast for the West African Economic and Monetary Union will likely be dampened by new political turmoil in the region.
African leaders will step up calls on Monday for an end to Western sanctions against Zimbabwe and urge SA to plead Harare’s cause within the G20.
Ugandan LRA rebels killed more than 100 people in a village in DRC in an apparent reprisal for army operations against them, the UN says.
Honore Tadri was in Faradje on Christmas Day when about 150 armed men surrounded the market square where most of the town’s residents had gathered.
A pledge by DRC rebels to abandon a four-year insurgency marks a major step towards ending more than a decade of conflict in the east of the country.
Rebels have killed 567 people and displaced 115 000 in northeast DRC’s Oriental province since September, the UN refugee agency said on Friday.
Poachers in the DRC have killed a fifth of the elephants in Africa’s oldest national park this year, the park’s director said on Friday.
The Democratic Republic of Congo should cancel more than three quarters of its logging deals for not meeting necessary standards, a report said.
More than 2 000 rape cases were recorded last month alone in DRC’s violent North Kivu province, a new report said on Tuesday.
Donors are ramping up aid to the neglected Central African Republic because they fear cross-border conflicts in Darfur and Chad could expand.
Abducted and raped this year by raiding Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels, Henriette and other villagers live in daily fear.
At least 68 people were killed in a two-week government crackdown against separatists in Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) western Bas-Congo province, according to internal…
Clashes between separatists and police sent to impose order in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s western Bas-Congo flared again on Tuesday, the official death toll rising to 22.…
Congolese rebels loyal to renegade Tutsi General Laurent Nkunda have said they will return to a ceasefire commission monitoring a rocky January peace deal. The United Nations and…
