(Reuters) – When Abdullahi slipped across the Kenya-Somali border to join the fighters of Islamist militant group al Shabaab in 2009, the livestock herder from...
HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s bid to force private schools to come under majority black control under a much contested empowerment law is illegal, the country’s...
Fighters from Ansar Dine, an al Qaeda-linked Islamist group in northern Mali, have destroyed historic Sufi shrines in the ancient desert city of Timbuktu, triggering...
(Reuters) – The al Qaeda-linked Islamist fighters who have used pick-axes, shovels and hammers to shatter earthen tombs and shrines of local saints in Mali’s...
By Marie-Louise Gumuchian TRIPOLI (Reuters) – For Tripoli businessman Salem Mohammed, Libya’s first elections in a generation on Saturday will pave the way for what...
The launch of celebrations of the Niger capital, Niamey, as the African region’s capital of Islamic culture for 2012, is slatted for Thursday under the...
By MacDonald Dzirutwe HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe has given foreign-owned banks one year to hand over 51 percent stakes to locals, according to a government...
By Tim Cocks and Camillus Eboh LAGOS/ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria signed a memorandum of understanding on Monday with Vulcan Petroleum Resources for a $4.5 billion...
HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe flew to Singapore on Monday for what a senior aide called a routine medical check-up, reviving speculation about...
PARIS (Reuters) – Parliamentary elections in Guinea will take place before year-end, President Alpha Conde said on Monday, marking the final step in the West...
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