Mystery of the ‘resolution’ at Addis African Union summit to walk out of ICC
A common position by African countries on mass withdrawal from the International Criminal Court will not be reached until June when a...
Briefing: The new Jihadist strategy in the Sahel
Security has been intense over the last few weeks in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, with police and soldiers on the streets, vehicle...
U.N. experts find bid to smuggle Congo arms via Rwanda to Burundi rebels
A confidential report to the United Nations Security Council found there have been attempts to smuggle weapons from Democratic Republic...
Corruption in Military Defense Spending Could Be Behind Rise in Africa Terror Attacks
A series of recent terror attacks across Africa have raised fears of a new wave of extremist violence From Somalia in the east to the...
Al-Shabab seizes African Union base in Somalia
Al-Shabab militants have overrun an African Union military base outside the southern Somali town of el-Ade. The Islamist group says it...
As ISIS Expands In North Africa, Morocco Faces Rising Threat Of Islamic State Group Terrorism
Morocco’s rippled sand dunes, sheltered coves and white sand beaches have long lured tourists looking for a taste of the Maghreb without...
Burundi: 900 deaths estimated as conflict between Nkurunziza and opposition rages on
The death toll in Burundi may have been greatly underestimated, with latest numbers almost double that of the United Nation's December...
Nigeria’s President Orders New Probe Into Chibok Abductions
Boko Haram took the 219 girls in April 2014 Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari ordered a new investigationinto the kidnapping of 219...
Women Say They Are Being Raped as Part of the President of Burundi’s Fight to Keep Power
Tension in the country is at its highest since the 1994 Rwanda genocide Douce, 22, was standing with 4 other women when the men – dressed...
Witness Somalia’s Resilience After Decades of War
A photographer shows a civil war-torn country that “resists and rises again.” The sunbathed half-mile stretch of road that links the Aden...
