Tags GENERAL Somali President Palace Targeted by Mortars; One Person Dies At least one person died and dozens others injured when a salvo of mortars targeting Somalia’s presidential palace in Mogadishu
Tags GENERAL #FromAfricanSoil: Africa Dominates Cocoa Farming Over 3 million tonnes of Cocoa beans are consumed worldwide annually. At least three quarters of the world’s cocoa production
Tags GENERAL Four dead, 19 wounded in Alexandria hospital blaze An extensive fire broke out Monday morning at a privately owned hospital in Egypt’s Mediterranean city of Alexandria, leaving four
Tags GENERAL Nigeria’s President rejects proposal to protect fragile economy Nigeria is hurting from a shortage of dollars and has been under pressure to devalue its currency, the Naira, ostensibly
Tags GENERAL AU relaunches Libya peace drive: warns against military intervention The African Union has said that the time is not right for a military solution in Libya. It has appointed
Tags GENERAL Gbagbo lawyers accuse Ouattara of forcibly taking power Lawyers representing former Cote d’Ivoire’s president Laurent Gbagbo at the International Criminal Court have told the court that the African
Tags GENERAL AU to pull out of the ICC The African Union (AU) has agreed to come up with a “road-map” which will lead to its withdrawal from the
Tags GENERAL UN chief urges African leaders to respect term limits The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has urged African leaders not to use legal loopholes or undemocratic constitutional changes
Tags GENERAL Hunt underway for poachers suspected to have shot down a helicopter in Tanzania He was dedicated to fighting poaching – and he died doing just that. Roger Gower’s helicopter was shot down as
Tags GENERAL Saudi Arabia turns to Somalia for domestic workers amid abuse cases Saudi Arabia is now seeking to recruit more Somali domestic workers. Pushing for a new mass recruitment drive, Saudi Arabia’s