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Insight: In Amenas attack brings global jihad home to Algeria

YoopyaJan 24, 20130

(Reuters) – A photo circulating on jihadi online forums says it all: a plane flying into the Eiffel Tower with September 11 written in Arabic

Kenya begins construction of ‘silicon’ city Konza

YoopyaJan 23, 20130

Kenya’s president has launched a $14.5bn (£9.1bn) project to build a new city intended to be an IT business hub and dubbed “Africa’s Silicon Savannah”.

Mali conflict: US begins French troop airlifts

YoopyaJan 23, 20130

The US military has begun airlifting French soldiers and equipment to Mali to support their operation against Islamist militants. Five US flights had already landed

Israeli PM Netanyahu scrambles to keep his job

YoopyaJan 23, 20130

JERUSALEM (AP) — A badly weakened Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu scrambled Wednesday to keep his job by extending his hand to a new centrist party

After UN acts, NKorea vows to beef up nukes

YoopyaJan 23, 20130

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea swiftly lashed out against the U.N. Security Council’s condemnation of its December launch of a long-range rocket, saying

Gambia’s public sector to have 4-day working week

YoopyaJan 22, 20130

(Reuters) – Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has decreed a four-day working week for public officials, making Friday a day of rest to allow residents in

Canada put “wrong” maple leaf on new Canadian dollar 20 bill: expert

YoopyaJan 22, 2013June 13, 20240

(Reuters) – The Bank of Canada has barked up the wrong maple tree with its new plastic banknotes, using a foreign Norway maple leaf as the emblem

Ivory Coast charges Gbagbo loyalist Charles Ble Goude

YoopyaJan 22, 20130

Ivory Coast’s former youth minister and ally of ex-President Laurent Gbagbo, Charles Ble Goude, has been charged with war crimes, murder and theft of public

Liberia’s Charles Taylor to begin appeal at The Hague

YoopyaJan 22, 2013January 15, 20230

Liberia’s jailed ex-President Charles Taylor is due to begin his appeal at a UN-backed special court in The Hague. Last May, the court sentenced him to

Islamist rebels gone from Malian town of Douentza

YoopyaJan 22, 20130

SEGOU, Mali (AP) — Malian forces on Tuesday controlled the strategic town that was under extreme Islamist rule for four months, as the French-led military