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Rival Somali militia fighting kills 14: witnesses

Radical Islamist Shebab members ride horses in Mogadishu in September. At least 14 people have been killed in fighting between rival Somali Islamist militia battling for control of the southern town of Afmadow, witnesses have said.
AFP - Monday, November 23

MOGADISHU (AFP) - - At least 14 people were killed Sunday in fighting between rival Somali Islamist militia battling for control of the southern town of Afmadow, witnesses said. More »

  • Yemen: Somali pirates hijack Panamanian cargo ship

    AP - Saturday, November 21

    SANA'A, Yemen - Yemen's coast guard says Somali pirates have hijacked a Panamanian cargo ship in the treacherous Gulf of Aden between the Arabian peninsula and the Horn of Africa.

  • Ugandan army kills 34 tribesmen on cattle raids

    AP - Saturday, November 21

    KAMPALA, Uganda - Ugandan officials say the army has killed 34 tribesmen who were stealing cattle in Uganda's volatile northeastern region.

  • Kenya unveils constitution to avoid vote violence

    AP - Friday, November 20

    NAIROBI, Kenya - A government-appointed panel this week unveiled a draft constitution that is part of wide-ranging efforts to avoid a repeat of political violence that saw more than 1,000 people killed after Kenya's December 2007 presidential elections.

  • South Sudanese cattle herders from the Dinka ethnic group dance while watching wrestling in Bor, Jonglei State, in 2008. Forty-seven people have been killed in ethnic clashes between the Mundari and the Dinka in south Sudan's Lakes state region, a military spokesman said on Wednesday.

    South Sudan clashes leave 47 dead: military

    AFP - Thursday, November 19

    JUBA, Sudan (AFP) - - Forty-seven people were killed in ethnic clashes in south Sudan's Lakes state region, a military spokesman said on Wednesday.

  • VIDEO - After savouring their fresh victory against Algeria, Egypt fans are looking ahead to the make-or-break World Cup qualification play-off taking place in Sudan on Wednesday. Duration: 00:50

    Sudan hikes security for World Cup qualifier

    AFP - Thursday, November 19

    KHARTOUM (AFP) - - Sudan's security forces threw a tight security cordon around Khartoum to prevent violence between fans of Algeria and Egypt, who clash on Wednesday for a place at the World Cup football finals.

  • Somali woman stoned to death for adultery

    AP - Thursday, November 19

    MOGADISHU, Somalia - A judge for an Islamic militant group in Somalia says a woman has been stoned to death and her boyfriend given 100 lashes for having an affair.

  • Ransom paid as Somali pirates free Spanish trawler

    AFP - Wednesday, November 18

    MOGADISHU (AFP) - - Somali pirates on Tuesday released a Spanish tuna trawler and its 36 crew seized more than a month ago in the Indian Ocean, saying they had been paid a four-million-dollar (2.6-million-euro) ransom.

  • Correction: Internet conference story

    AP - Wednesday, November 18

    SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt - In a Nov. 15 story about Egypt's plan to apply for the first Internet domain name written in Arabic, The Associated Press incorrectly quoted Yahoo Inc. co-founder Jerry Yang.

  • Somalia, Afghanistan shamed in corruption table

    AFP - Wednesday, November 18

    BERLIN (AFP) - - Lawless Somalia and war-torn Afghanistan topped a blacklist on Tuesday of the world's most corrupt countries drawn up by the anti-graft watchdog Transparency International.

  • Mozambique: Major corruption trial begins

    AP - Wednesday, November 18

    MAPUTO, Mozambique - A former Cabinet minister and four other defendants are standing trial in the biggest corruption case to go to court in Mozambique since independence in 1975.

  • Rwandan priest acquitted of genocide charges

    AP - Wednesday, November 18

    ARUSHA, Tanzania - A United Nations court on Tuesday acquitted a Catholic priest charged with genocide, murder and extermination in Rwanda's 1994 genocide after the judge said the prosecution had failed to prove its case.

  • Major corruption trial begins in Mozambique

    AP - Wednesday, November 18

    MAPUTO, Mozambique - A former Cabinet minister and four other defendants are standing trial in the biggest corruption case to go to court in Mozambique since independence in 1975.

  • Judge acquits Rwandan priest of genocide charges

    AP - Wednesday, November 18

    ARUSHA, Tanzania - A United Nations court has acquitted a Catholic priest charged with genocide, murder and extermination in Rwanda's 1994 genocide.

  • Somali pirate: $3.3M ransom paid, 36 hostages free

    AP - Wednesday, November 18

    MOGADISHU, Somalia - Pirates freed 36 crew members from a Spanish trawler Tuesday after holding them for more than six weeks off the coast of Somalia, while a self-proclaimed pirate said the hostage-takers were paid $3.3 million in ransom.

  • Afghan President Hamid Karzai gestures during a press conference in Kabul on November 3. Somalia and Afghanistan topped a blacklist of the world's most corrupt countries drawn up by the anti-graft watchdog Transparency International.

    Somalia, Afghanistan shamed in graft league table

    AFP - Wednesday, November 18

    BERLIN (AFP) - - Lawless Somalia and war-torn Afghanistan topped a blacklist on Tuesday of the world's most corrupt countries drawn up by the anti-graft watchdog Transparency International.

  • Mozambique opposition claims election fraud

    AP - Wednesday, November 18

    MAPUTO, Mozambique - Mozambique's main opposition party says the ruling party stuffed ballot boxes and expelled opposition monitors from polling stations to help it win the country's Oct. 28 presidential election.

  • New Greenpeace chief has fought apartheid, poverty

    AP - Tuesday, November 17

    JOHANNESBURG - An African has taken over as director of Greenpeace, bringing experience honed as a teenage opponent of white rule in South Africa and a network of powerful contacts to the battle against global warming.

  • AP IMPACT: Kenyans recruited to fight in Somalia

    AP - Tuesday, November 17

    DADAAB, Kenya - The recruits assembled by moonlight at a watering hole.

  • SAfrican woman survives after thrown from bridge

    AP - Tuesday, November 17

    JOHANNESBURG - Police say a South African woman has survived after carjackers threw her off a nearly 200-foot (60-meter)-tall bridge.

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