Shellshocked Liberians brace for the worst; Ebola returns –‘The Devil is back...
Sierra Leone’s health officials check passengers transiting at the border crossing with Liberia in Jendema. Liberia said yesterday a teenager who died of Ebola fever had spread the virus to at least...
View ArticleMalnutrition brings a terrible disease to children in Niger
ZINDER, Niger: Mourdja's nose has been eaten away, like one lip and part of her upper gum, leaving the 13-year-old girl atrociously disfigured by noma, a disease that thrives on malnutrition. "It...
View ArticleSleepless nights for father of girl allegedly abused by French soldier
Ben Ouedraogo, the father of a girl who was sexually assaulted by a French soldier. OUAGADOUGOU: Ben Ouedraogo hasn't been able to sleep since the discovery of a video that appears to show a French...
View ArticleBoko Haram kills nearly 200 in 48 hours – Militants unleash female suicide...
NDJAMENA: A picture shows the dead bodies of suspected Boko Haram militants after a Chadian police raid in N'Djamena. - AFP KANO: Boko Haram carried out a fresh wave of massacres in northeastern...
View ArticleNew York man works to open African art museum
Open the door of a seemingly normal New York apartment and the unwary visitor is transported to another world. Tribal drums jostle for space with forbidding statues and flamboyant masks. Eric Edwards,...
View Article5 dead as suicide bomber blows up Nigeria church
POTISKUM: A woman suicide bomber blew up in the midst of a crowded evangelical Christian church service in northeast Nigeria yesterday and killed at least five people, witnesses said. It is the latest...
View ArticleRoaring success: Lions return to Rwanda, with rhinos next? –‘It is a...
Boxes containing lions brought from South Africa are placed on a truck heading to Akagera National Park AKAGERA: Groggy on their paws after waking from tranquillizers, lions have returned to Rwanda for...
View ArticleButchery in Nigeria’s Jos adds pressure on Buhari
The burnt First African Church Mission of Jos is pictured yesterday in the central Nigerian city of Jos, Plateau State, after a twin bomb blasts killed at least 44 people the day before, following a...
View Article25 dead in attack in northern Nigeria
KANO, Nigeria: At least 25 people were killed when a bomb blast ripped through a packed government office in Zaria, northern Nigeria, on Tuesday, in a suspected suicide attack likely to be blamed on...
View ArticleShabab kill 14 workers in Kenya – Somalia-based militant group says raid...
Doctors and medical staff help a man injured in the Mander attack as he arrives to be treated at Kenyatta National Hospital in the capital NAIROBI: Shabab militants killed at least 14 workers in...
View ArticleLiberia announces second Ebola death as new outbreak spreads – Two new trials...
health workers wash their hands after taking a blood specimen from a child to test for the Ebola virus in a area where a 17-year old boy died from the virus on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia...
View ArticleSenegal puts ex-Chad dictator Habre on trial for atrocities
Former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre (C) is escorted by prison guards into the courtroom for the first proceedings of his trial by the Extraordinary African Chambers in Dakar yesterday. More than a...
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