More than $150 million have been paid to pirates around the Horn of Africa over the past 12 months, Kenya's foreign minister said Friday.
The whereabouts of a dozen opposition supporters -- including a mother and her 2-year-old daughter -- remain unknown, weeks after they were seized by Zimbabwean security forces, the U.S. ambassador to Zimbabwe and a human rights lawyers group said Thursday.
Russia will send additional ships to the Horn of Africa in an effort to crack down on the recent wave of hijackings by Somalia-based pirates, its navy chief said Thursday.
Red Sea nations in the Arab League met in Egypt's capital on Thursday to coordinate a common strategy against piracy in the Gulf of Aden and off the coast of Somalia.
The closest 9-year-old Ruan Gamibeb has come to war is the fighting he sees on the news at night, when his family gathers around the television to watch Congo's latest horrors.
The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Thursday to send more than 3,000 additional troops to the Democratic Republic of Congo, bolstering a mission that is already its largest peacekeeping force in the world.
In their most audacious act to date, pirates this week captured a huge supertanker carrying up to $100 million worth of oil off the east coast of Africa.
Britain and France are calling for an additional 3,000 United Nations troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the U.N. already has its biggest peacekeeping mission, a senior British diplomat said Wednesday.
Zimbabwe's health system, once the envy of many African nations, is "in a state of collapse" -- with many hospitals either completely shut down or unable to admit new patients, a leading doctors' group said Thursday.
The prosecutor at the International Criminal Court at The Hague on Thursday requested arrest warrants for rebel leaders allegedly responsible for attacks last year on peacekeepers in Sudan's Darfur region.
More than $150 million have been paid to pirates around the Horn of Africa over the past 12 months, Kenya's foreign minister said Friday.
The whereabouts of a dozen opposition supporters -- including a mother and her 2-year-old daughter -- remain unknown, weeks after they were seized by Zimbabwean security forces, the U.S. ambassador to Zimbabwe and a human rights lawyers group said Thursday.
Russia will send additional ships to the Horn of Africa in an effort to crack down on the recent wave of hijackings by Somalia-based pirates, its navy chief said Thursday.
Red Sea nations in the Arab League met in Egypt's capital on Thursday to coordinate a common strategy against piracy in the Gulf of Aden and off the coast of Somalia.
The closest 9-year-old Ruan Gamibeb has come to war is the fighting he sees on the news at night, when his family gathers around the television to watch Congo's latest horrors.
The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Thursday to send more than 3,000 additional troops to the Democratic Republic of Congo, bolstering a mission that is already its largest peacekeeping force in the world.
In their most audacious act to date, pirates this week captured a huge supertanker carrying up to $100 million worth of oil off the east coast of Africa.
Britain and France are calling for an additional 3,000 United Nations troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the U.N. already has its biggest peacekeeping mission, a senior British diplomat said Wednesday.
Zimbabwe's health system, once the envy of many African nations, is "in a state of collapse" -- with many hospitals either completely shut down or unable to admit new patients, a leading doctors' group said Thursday.
The prosecutor at the International Criminal Court at The Hague on Thursday requested arrest warrants for rebel leaders allegedly responsible for attacks last year on peacekeepers in Sudan's Darfur region.
Five attempts to hijack ships off the coast of Somalia were thwarted Tuesday by the ships' crews, the U.S.-led coalition that monitors the region said Wednesday.
Turkish officials are investigating reports of a hijacking following distress signals from a Turkish-owned freighter in the Gulf of Aden, a Turkish Foreign Ministry official said Thursday.
Pirates attacked a French ship in the waters off Cameroon on Friday, taking 10 of the 15 crew members hostage, the French Foreign Ministry and the ship's owner said.
A multinational force of warships has carved out a narrow shipping corridor off the coast of Somalia that is helping protect merchant vessels from pirate attacks, the force's commander said Monday.
Armed pirates have hijacked a Philippines chemical tanker off the coast of Somalia, but Indian forces thwarted an attack on one of its vessels, authorities said Tuesday.
Russian and British ships repelled a pirate attack on a Danish ship in the Gulf of Aden, the Russian navy said Wednesday.
A cargo ship off the coast of Somalia escaped pirates who attacked it Thursday with grenade launchers and machine guns, sparking a fire on board, the Russian Transportation Ministry said on its Web site.
Somali pirates were holding the crew of a Chinese fishing vessel Friday, hours after hijacking the ship in the fourth reported pirate attack in the region this week, according to a media report.
Armed gunmen have hijacked a cargo ship carrying 23 crew off the coast of Somalia, the latest attack near the lawless African country, South Korea's Foreign Ministry said Sunday.
Pirates who hijacked a crude oil tanker off the coast of Kenya are approaching a Somali port, the U.S. Navy says.
The crew of a supertanker are reported safe after pirates hijacked the vessel laden with oil and then holed up in lawless Somalia.
A Norwegian shipping firm has ordered its vessels to avoid the waters off the Horn of Africa and criticized governments for failing to curb a wave of piracy after Somalia-based hijackers seized their largest prize to date.
An Indian warship has exchanged fire with a pirate "mother vessel" off the hijacking-plagued Horn of Africa, leaving the ship ablaze, an official said Wednesday.
Somalia's increasingly brazen pirates are building sprawling stone houses, cruising in luxury cars, marrying beautiful women -- even hiring caterers to prepare Western-style food for their hostages.
The United Nations is investigating "troubling reports" of bombings and fighting in the Darfur region of Sudan in violation of a cease-fire agreed to last week, the organization said Wednesday.
United Nations troops exchanged fire Wednesday with militia fighters who attacked them in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a military spokesman for the U.N. mission there said.
Katy Phiri, who is in her 70s, picks up single corn kernels spilled from trucks that ferry the harvest to market. She says she hasn't eaten for three days.
The survival of several hundred rare gorillas is threatened by rebel fighters who have taken over the animals' sanctuary, a spokeswoman for the Virunga National Park said Tuesday.
Rebel leader Laurent Nkunda ordered his troops Tuesday to withdraw from the strategic town of Kabasha in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will meet Tuesday with the son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi to discuss deepening ties between Washington and Tripoli, senior State Department officials said Monday.
German prosecutors say a top Rwandan official will be handed Wednesday to France, which sought her in connection with the assassination that sparked the African nation's 1994 genocide.
A white teenager has pleaded guilty in a shooting spree that killed four blacks and reignited racial tensions in post-apartheid South Africa.
Government forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo have engaged in heavy fighting with rebels despite their leader's pledge to back a cease-fire, the United Nations and witnesses said Monday.
Armed gunmen hijacked a Japanese freighter and its 23-member crew off the coast of Somalia, South Korean officials said Sunday.
The leader of Congo's main rebel group agreed Sunday to back a United Nations-brokered cease-fire amid efforts to bring an end to a fresh wave of violent unrest and deal with a worsening humanitarian crisis in the conflict-devastated country, according to a U.N. special envoy.
At least 60 people were killed Saturday in a collision between a bus and a truck in the West African country of Burkina Faso, according to local media reports.
A United Nations special envoy arrived in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on Saturday for talks aimed at ending fighting between rebels and government troops in the east of the civil war-devastated country.
The U.N. World Food Program started distributing several tons of food to rebel-held areas of eastern Congo for the first time since October, a food program spokesman said Friday.
Zimbabwe's main political opposition party refuses to join a unity government with President Robert Mugabe unless several conditions are met, a party official warned Friday.
The U.N. refugee agency plans to move 60,000 Congolese caught between the front lines in the east of the country to a new camp next week.
Nations are abdicating their responsibility by failing to provide enough military aid to the U.N. mission in the war torn Democratic Republic of Congo as it struggles to stop brutal violence, the head of Oxfam International in the Congo said Thursday.
A Moroccan youth given a suspended prison sentence for scribbling that he preferred a football club to his king said Thursday he fears the ruling could jeopardize his professional future.
Human rights groups are asking President-elect Barack Obama to pay early attention to the crisis in Sudan's troubled Darfur region, where government forces have waged a bloody war against militias that some international critics have characterized as genocide.
The road that leads into rebel-controlled Congo begins with a makeshift roadblock made from the corpses of two government soldiers strewn across the dark volcanic earth.
Angola has said it will send troops into the Democratic Republic of Congo, say agencies, as U.N. officials claim that Congolese soldiers have raped women, looted villages and ransacked homes in the wartorn region.
Sudan's president has agreed to an immediate, unconditional cease-fire in the Darfur region where government forces have waged a bloody war against militias that international critics have characterized as genocide.
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has announced a unilateral ceasefire by government forces in the devastated Darfur region and is calling for rebels to join in peace negotiations.
Islamic fighters have seized control of a strategic Somali port city just outside the capital, Mogadishu, where United Nations relief supplies enter the famine-stricken country.
Congolese soldiers looted villages, reportedly raping women and ransacking homes, late Monday and early Tuesday, U.N. officials said, as the prospect of a sustained ceasefire between government troops and rebel soldiers continued to fade.
The French government says seven French citizens and three Africans who were taken hostage from a tugboat off the coast of Cameroon late last month have been freed.
Aid workers in eastern Congo said Tuesday they are concerned that thousands of refugees may be trapped behind rebel lines and in urgent need of food.
An Islamic militia took over two strategic towns in Somalia Tuesday in a territory grab by the strengthening insurgency, a regional commander told CNN.
A cholera outbreak in a sprawling refugee camp has spread to eastern Congo's provincial capital, increasing fears of an epidemic amid a tense standoff between troops and rebels.
A multinational force of warships has carved out a narrow shipping corridor off the coast of Somalia that is helping protect merchant vessels from pirate attacks, the force's commander said Monday.
Italy's foreign minister is working with Kenyan authorities to secure the release of two Italian nuns, who were kidnapped Monday by suspected Somalian bandits, according to the foreign ministry in Rome.
Zimbabwe powersharing talks were left deadlocked Monday after Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the opposition MDC party, rejected plans to co-manage the ministry that oversees police.
After weeks of deadlocked talks over a power-sharing agreement between Zimbabwe's president and the nation's opposition leader, a mediating group asked both sides to co-manage the ministry that oversees police.
Rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are not honoring a cease-fire and have been killing dozens of soldiers and even civilians, a government official said Sunday.
The deaths of 26 victims in the latest wave of violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo might constitute war crimes, a United Nations spokesman said Saturday.
Congolese soldiers advanced toward rebel lines Saturday in renewed fighting that threatens a tenuous cease-fire around the eastern provincial capital Goma.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Friday rebels who are fighting government troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo pose "poisonous consequences" for the country amid a worsening humanitarian crisis.
Fashion photographer Rankin took time out from his career to take powerful pictures of people from Congo.
Congolese rebels fought government forces in eastern Congo Thursday on the eve of a regional summit on the crisis and despite a recent cease-fire, U.N. officials said.
The U.S. forces who killed a top militant in Syria last week intended to capture him, but he and his bodyguards were killed in a gunbattle, a Saudi source with access to detailed intelligence told CNN.
A fragile cease-fire in Congo appeared to be unraveling Thursday as the U.N. said battles between warlord Laurent Nkunda's rebels and the army spread to another town in the volatile country's east.
Fighting between rebel forces and local Mai Mai fighters forced the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to evacuate a dozen aid workers Tuesday from near Rutshuru, in eastern Congo, U.N. officials said.
Celebrations erupted in Barack Obama's ancestral home in Kenya and across Africa as the U.S. Democratic candidate made history by being elected America's first African-American president.
Four aid workers and two pilots working for the French aid group Action Against Hunger were abducted Wednesday in the central Somali town of Dhusa Mareb, the organization said.
French aid group Action Against Hunger says six of its workers have been kidnapped in Somalia.
Celebrations erupted in Barack Obama's ancestral home in Kenya after the U.S. Democrat made history by being elected America's first African American president.
The United Nations' refugee agency said Tuesday that more Africans have fled poverty and conflict on the continent during the first 10 months of this year than in all of 2007.
A fragile cease-fire between government troops and rebels threatening the Democratic Republic of Congo city of Goma is holding but the situation remains tense, U.N. officials said Monday evening.
The bullet pierced 5-year-old Naomi Harerimanea's back and chest, just missing her heart, but on Monday she managed to smile.
Zimbabwe will introduce a $1 million note this week as the country tries to ease the effects of hyperinflation, the country's central bank said Monday.
Political corruption in Zimbabwe threatens efforts to save millions of people from malaria in the southern African country, according to aid agency officials.
Thousands of people who fled fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are crossing back into rebel-held territory because they say conditions at refugee camps are intolerable.
The leader of South Africa's ruling party likened a group of dissidents who are forming a new party to bigamists Sunday, having criticized them the previous day as poisonous snakes.
A veteran ruling-party member was sworn in as the new president of Zambia Sunday, promising to continue the free-market policies of a government that greatly expanded trade between China and one of the world's top copper producers.
Both sides in the Congo rebel fighting that has displaced thousands of people seem committed to maintaining the days-old cease-fire, the top U.S. diplomat for Africa said Saturday.
A shaky cease-fire between government troops and rebels was holding Saturday, a week after fighting broke out in the volatile eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The cease-fire meant thousands of displaced people could receive food and water for the first time in days.
A 13-year-old girl who said she had been raped was stoned to death in Somalia after being accused of adultery by Islamic militants, a human rights group said.
About 1 million people have been forced to flee because of fighting between rebel and government forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday, adding that it was investigating reports of camps being looted and torched.
Libya has paid $1.5 billion to the families of terrorism victims, overcoming the final obstacle to full relations with the United States, the State Department said Friday.
The rebel general who ordered a cease-fire for his forces said Thursday he has offered to create a "humanitarian corridor" so aid can safely reach thousands displaced by four days of fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
The rebel general besieging Congo's eastern provincial capital said Thursday that he wants direct talks with the government about security and his objections to a $5 billion deal that gives China access to the region's mineral resources.
Rebel forces have declared a cease-fire after four days of fighting in the North Kivu province of eastern Congo, the French ambassador to the United Nations said after Security Council talks on the unfolding humanitarian crisis.
Congolese rebels say they are instituting a unilateral cease-fire around the eastern provincial capital of Goma to prevent panic as the army retreats and residents flee.
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai expressed frustration Wednesday at deadlocked talks over a power-sharing agreement with Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe.
A string of suicide bombings targeting government buildings and a United Nations compound in Somalia left at least 25 people dead Wednesday in attacks a U.S. official said bore hallmarks of the al Qaeda terror network.
Rebel attacks north of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo prompted thousands more civilians to flee Tuesday, and U.N. officials said a U.N. convoy trying to provide security near Goma also was attacked.
The kidnappers of nine Chinese oil workers in Sudan killed at least three hostages Tuesday after being spooked by a surveillance plane, a Sudanese government official said, contradicting Chinese claims of a botched rescue.
Severe flooding in Yemen has killed at least 100 people and displaced thousands more, according to the U.N. refugee agency and SABA, the country's official news agency.
The first officially sanctioned ivory auction in nearly a decade happened Tuesday in Namibia, with opinion split on whether the sale will help or hurt efforts to stop elephant poaching.
U.N. gunships battled rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday, according to U.N. spokesman Michele Bonnardeaux.
Five of nine abducted Chinese oil workers were killed Monday by their kidnappers in Sudan, a Sudanese official told CNN.
The kidnappers of nine Chinese oil workers have killed five of the men, execution-style, a Sudanese Foreign Ministry spokesman says.
A West African court on Monday ordered Niger to pay compensation to a woman who was sold into slavery at age 12 and held for a decade. It ruled the country had failed to implement its anti-slavery laws.
Hijackers holding an arms-laden Ukrainian vessel said Monday its operators do not want to negotiate for the weapons, and NATO warships safely escorted a cargo vessel through the pirate-infested waters off Somalia for the first time.
Thousands of protesters attacked the United Nations' eastern Congo headquarters on Monday, expressing anger that a U.N. peacekeeping force has been unable to protect them from a rebel attack that has forced tens of thousands to flee.
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