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The French Foreign Ministry recalled its current ambassador to Rwanda Monday after Kigali "refused" to approve France's choice of new ambassador, Helene Le Gal, who is considered too close to French FM Alain Juppé.
As diplomats gather in London to seek a solution to Somalia’s crisis, a Somali hip-hop group is daringly rapping their opposition to al Shabaab. Unlike the conference attendees, their message is in Somali for Somalis by Somalis.
Gunmen stormed a prison in central Nigeria's Kogi state, 100 kilometres south of the capital Abuja, killing a warden and freeing at least 119 prisoners. An alleged spokesman for the Boko Haram Islamist group later claimed the attack.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a 25-year-old Nigerian national who tried to blow up a US-bound airliner with explosives hidden in his pants on Christmas Day in 2009, was sentenced to life in prison by a Detroit court on Thursday.
Egyptian activists are planning a "day of disobedience" Saturday to mark the one-year anniversary of Hosni Mubarak's ouster. The increasingly unpopular military said it would deploy additional troops to respond to scheduled strikes and protests.
Stashing gold at home rather than having cash in the bank is a generations-old habit in communist Vietnam, but a recent surge in prices has sparked government attempts to bring the yellow metal to heel.Last year the country bought more gold per capita than India or China, according to the World Gold Council, and domestic prices soared by 18 percent -- far outstripping the global market's 11 perce
An Uzbek man living in the United States pleaded guilty in federal court in the southern state of Alabama to planning to kill US President Barack Obama.Ulugbek Kodirov, 22, was arrested in an undercover operation while trying to obtain explosives and guns, the US Justice Department said in a statement.US Attorney Joyce White Vance, who worked on the case, expressed "appreciation to the Muslim com
Egyptian judges on Sunday referred 44 employees of US-funded NGOs, including 19 Americans, to criminal trial for alleged illegal activities. The US warned it may halt its more than $1 billion in annual aid to Egypt unless the situation is resolved.
Protesters clashed with police in sporadic battles Sunday at security headquarters in Cairo as unrest over 74 deaths at a football match in Port Said last week entered a fourth day.
Egyptian judges on Sunday referred 43 foreign NGO workers, including 19 Americans, to criminal trial for their alleged illegal activities. The US has warned that it may halt its $1 billion in annual aid to Egypt unless the situation is resolved.
South African mining company Impala Platinum, the world's number-two producer, said it fired 13,000 workers after they staged an illegal strike for better pay on Monday. That brings the number sacked by the company in the past month to 17,200.
A south Sinai security official said Friday that unidentified gunmen had intercepted a tourist minivan and kidnapped two female American tourists and their Egyptian tour guide at gunpoint near St. Catherine's Monastery.
Protesters in Cairo stormed Egypt's Interior Ministry Friday, in the second day of rioting following Wednesday's football stadium disaster that killed 74. In the Egyptian city of Suez, police shot two protesters dead Thursday night.
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara and French President Nicolas Sarkozy signed a security deal on Thursday to ensure French forces offer training and equipment to the former colony without interfering in its internal affairs.
Egypt's military leader Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi announced Tuesday that the country's state of emergency law, in place since 1981, will be lifted on Wednesday, the first anniversary of the start of the protests that overthrew Hosni Mubarak.
It has been one year since protesters in Cairo set in motion Egypt's popular uprising, turning "January 25" into a battle-cry for revolution. But after 12 months of a rocky transition to democracy, few are ready to celebrate an unfinished revolution.
Residents in the northern Nigerian city of Kano said Tuesday they heard explosions and gunshots coming from an area near the police station, following last week's deadly gun battles in which at least 185 people were killed.
Police in the restive city of Kano in northern Nigeria say at least six people have been killed in a series of bomb attacks, some targeting police stations and local government buildings. The authorities have imposed a curfew across the city.
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