Posts having tag: conflicts
KENYA PAY STRIKE GROUNDS PLANES ! Kenya Airways employs nearly 3,000 workers Many flights from Kenya's main airport have been grounded as workers from the national airline go on strike, leaving passengers stranded in Nairobi. The ...
HUNGER STRIKE BEFORE GABON POLL ! Ali-Ben Bongo is favourite to succeed his father One of the 23 presidential candidates in Gabon has begun a hunger strike to demand that the election be postponed. Bruno Ben Moubamba, an ...
HORN OF AFRICA DAMAGES RULING DUE ! By Martin Plaut BBC Africa editor ...
MISSING SHIP 'FOUND' OFF AFRICA ! A missing cargo ship with 15 Russian crew members on board has reportedly been spotted more than two weeks after it mysteriously disappeared. The Arctic Sea was last sighted in the Bay of Biscay on 30 July, according to ...
Crews 'overpower Somali pirates' ! Somali piracy has become a major international issue About 40 Egyptian fishermen have escaped from their Somali pirate captors near the northern town of Las ...
Khartoum denies arming militias! People hurt in the attack continue to recover in Akobo's hospital Officials in the north of Sudan have rejected accusations they armed militias who killed dozens in recent ethnic clashes in the south. Humanitarian minister Abdelbagi Gailani described ...
MOB KILLS UK GEMS EXPERT IN KENYA ! A leading Scottish gemstone expert has been killed in Kenya by a gang armed with clubs, spears, bows and arrows. Campbell Bridges, 71, was attacked by 20 men in the grounds of his 600-acre property near the southern town ...
CLINTON SET FOR VISIT TO LIBERIA ! Mrs Clinton has been pushing a self-help programme for Africa US Secretary State Hillary Clinton is due to arrive in Monrovia on the sixth stage of her seven-nation African tour. During her visit, ...
HEALING SCARS OF KENYAN VIOLENCE ! By Will Ross BBC News, Rift Valley, Kenya ...
Genocide suspect found in Congo ! Some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed in 1994 A man accused of planning the massacre of Rwandans during the 1994 genocide has been arrested in the ...
Niger opposition figure 'beaten' ! Marou Amadou was brought to court on Tuesday with other prisoners Niger opposition activist Marou Amadou has been mistreated in custody by security forces, ...
Pakistanis shot at Somali mosque ! At least five Pakistanis have been killed in a dawn attack at a mosque in Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region, witnesses say. Armed men in masks entered a mosque in Galkayo and ...
Niger opposition leader abducted ! Marou Amadou was among a group of prisoners brought to court in Niamey An opposition leader in Niger, Marou Amadou, has been abducted, hours after he was freed ...
Aid workers 'released in Somalia' ! Four European aid workers and two Kenyan pilots kidnapped nine months ago in Somalia have been released, French aid group Action Against Hunger says. The group was taken captive from ...
Horrors of South Sudan massacre ! By Peter Martell BBC News, Akobo ...
Niger 'must return to democracy' ! Mamadou Tandja's plans have caused unrest at home and abroad France has called on Niger to restore a democratic framework, after weeks of turmoil caused by the ...
Eritrea rebuffs 'smear campaign' ! Somali insurgents are trying to topple the UN-backed govenrment Eritrea has strongly denied allegations that it supports Islamist insurgents in neighbouring ...
Amputee just keeps on running ! By Jane Elliott Health reporter, BBC News ...
Clashes rock Somali pirate port ! Pirates say they fear the clan conflict may affect their activities at sea Overnight gun-battles between rival clans in a pirate stronghold on the coast of ...
IMF and Angola to negotiate loan ! Eduardo dos Santos's government broke off talks with the IMF in 2007 The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Angola have agreed to begin talks on a loan to ...
