Monthly Archives: November, 2016

The United Nations' top genocide official said on Friday he had reports that militia fighters in Central African Republic hunted down and massacred members of the Fulani ethnic group during violence that killed 85 civilians this week. Clashes erupted...

South African President Jacob Zuma will be questioned next week by the African National Congress' (ANC) integrity commission following persistent allegations of corruption and poor election results, the party said on Friday. Zuma's appearance before the panel could deepen...

The Government of Rwanda has demanded an apology from the Vatican for the role played by members of the Catholic Church in the 1994 genocide against Tutsi,according a government statement released on Wednesday. The demand comes days after Rwanda's...

Egypt's prosecution referred 292 suspect terrorists to military trial over charges of carrying out terror activities in restive Sinai Peninsula and planning to assassinate President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, official MENA news agency reported. According to the report, the defendants belong...

Kenya is among 30 countries in the world where practices of female genital mutilation (FGM) are rampant, heavily affecting cycle of girls and women's socio-economic lives. The UN children's fund (UNICEF) released a report early this year in which...

The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) have agreed to enhance their partnership in responding to needs of refugees and host communities in Ethiopia. Ethiopia currently hosts 783,340 refugees, 58.3 percent of whom are children...

The death toll from an attack on an Egyptian military checkpoint on Thursday in the restive northern Sinai Peninsula has climbed to 11, medical sources said on Friday. The military said late on Thursday that militants had killed eight...

Ethiopian authorities detained and later released several foreign pilots, including Americans, who were participating in a trans-Africa air rally, the United States Embassy said Thursday.  Following interventions by American embassy in Addis Ababa, 20 vintage airplanes and pilots have...

Doctors and nurses are on strike at Burkina Faso's public health centers throughout the West African country, leaving only medical students to help the sick amid outbreaks of dengue fever and meningitis. In a desperate attempt to save lives,...