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Sudan: Smartphones spread word of protests

YoopyaSep 30, 2013June 22, 20230

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — In the face of a heavy media blackout imposed by the government over their protests, Sudanese taking to the streets demanding

Terror, mass shootings don’t mean more danger

YoopyaSep 28, 2013March 31, 20240

It almost feels these days as if there is no safe place — that after global jihad strikes a Nairobi shopping mall or a deranged

Guinea votes in long-delayed parliamentary election

YoopyaSep 28, 2013March 31, 20240

(Reuters) – Guineans voted on Saturday in a parliamentary election to complete its transition to democracy after a 2008 military coup and end decades of

Near stricken Kenya mall, humanity and unity shine

YoopyaSep 28, 2013April 3, 20240

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The volunteers kept bringing food, boxes upon boxes of cookies and bottled water. After shoppers and workers were mowed down by

More than 3,000 protesters on Khartoum streets demand Bashir quit

YoopyaSep 28, 2013April 3, 20240

(Reuters) – More than 3,000 protesters took to the streets of the Sudanese capital Khartoum on Saturday to demand President Omar Hassan al-Bashir quit, witnesses

Liberia’s Charles Taylor loses appeal against war crimes conviction

YoopyaSep 26, 2013September 12, 20230

(Reuters) – Charles Taylor lost his appeal against a war crimes conviction on Thursday, judges confirming a 50-year jail term against the former Liberian president

Militant group attacks Kenyan border towns

YoopyaSep 26, 2013September 12, 20230

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The Islamic extremist group that killed scores of people at a Nairobi mall has now attacked two Kenyan towns near the

Shabab: 137 killed in Kenya mall attack

YoopyaSep 25, 2013March 31, 20240

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The militant group behind the four-day takeover of a Nairobi mall claimed Wednesday that Kenyan government forces used chemical weapons in

Nigeria tells U.N. sparing no effort tackling terrorism ‘menace’

YoopyaSep 25, 2013March 31, 20240

(Reuters) – An Islamist insurgency in Nigeria’s northeast is challenging the country’s stability and every effort is being made to tackle the extremists with “due

Kenya searches shopping mall, attackers’ identities probed

YoopyaSep 24, 2013April 7, 20240

(Reuters) – Kenya said it was in control of a Nairobi shopping mall that was attacked at the weekend but was still searching on Tuesday