December 11, 2015 4,000 flee new fighting in eastern Congo A week of renewed fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo's troubled east has driven more than 4,000 people to seek refuge in the provincial capital Goma, aid workers said Saturday.
December 11, 2015 Libel case against Liberian journalists dropped Two Liberian journalists arrested on suspicion of criminal libel after accusing the government of corruption on national radio have had the case against them dropped, they told AFP on Friday.
December 11, 2015 Kenya seizes three tonnes of ivory at port Kenyan customs officers have confiscated more than three tonnes of elephant ivory destined for Malaysia, they said Tuesday, one of the largest in a series of such seizures.
December 11, 2015 Police Caution Protestors Ahead of Nigeria Strike The head of Nigeria's federal police force says security agencies will allow protesters to assemble ahead of a planned national strike over spiraling gasoline prices.
December 11, 2015 Hammami: From Deep South Bible school to 'rapping jihadi' American extremist Omar Hammami, who was reported killed in Somalia on Thursday, switched a mundane life in Alabama for a spot in the global Jihad, earning a $5 million bounty on his head from the US but eventually falling foul of his fellow fighters.
December 11, 2015 Burundi's longest cholera epidemic kills at least 17 A cholera epidemic in Burundi, the longest in the small central African country's history, has killed at least 17 people in 10 months, a top health official told AFP Monday.
December 11, 2015 Heavy Fighting Rages in Libyan City of Misrata Heavy fighting raged anew in Misrata and killed 24 people Saturday as Moammar Qaddafi's forces gave up more ground inside Libya's third-largest city. The U.S. said its first Predator drone attack in the country destroyed a government rocket launcher that had menaced civilians in the western city.
December 11, 2015 Police station, schools attacked in north Nigeria Smoke hovered over uniformed students frolicking in a playground Tuesday, hours after assailants set their school ablaze and destroyed another local school, showing how commonplace violence has become in Nigeria's northeast.
December 11, 2015 Polls Open in Second Round of Egypt Parliament Vote Egyptians in nine provinces have begun voting in the second stage of the first parliamentary elections since a popular uprising ousted President Hosni Mubarak in February.
December 11, 2015 Mandela family feud: S.Africa's shocking 'soap opera' A grave-digging dispute has added to the bitter family feuding, over sex, money and power, among Nelson Mandela's heirs which has set South Africans on edge as the anti-apartheid icon lies critically ill in hospital.
