Congo refugees suffer shooting, rape, looting
AP - 9 hours ago

KIBATI, Congo (AP) - Looting soldiers tried to rape one woman and fatally shot another at a refugee camp, witnesses said Friday, as the United Nations prepared to send more peacekeepers to help protect traumatized civilians in eastern Congo.

Study: Fewer terror attacks in Algeria this year
AP - 9 hours ago

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) - Al-Qaida's offshoot in Algeria has carried out fewer terror attacks this year but some of those had a high number of casualties, an academic study said Friday.

Rangers return to protect Congo mountain gorillas
AP - 10 hours ago

GOMA, Congo (AP) - The director of Congo's Virunga Park says rangers who fled fighting between rebels and soldiers are returning to protect its endangered mountain gorillas.

WHO: 294 deaths in Zimbabwe cholera outbreak
AP - 11 hours ago

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - The World Health Organization said Friday that 294 people have died from a cholera outbreak exacerbated by the country's collapsing health care system.

White S. African sentenced for racist killings
AP - 12 hours ago

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - A white teenager has received four life sentences for a shooting spree that killed four blacks and wounded eight, re-igniting racial tensions in post-apartheid South Africa.

Somalia gunbattle kills 17 in capital; 6 wounded
AP - 14 hours ago

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Somali security forces and Islamic insurgents engaged in one of the fiercest gunbattles in recent weeks in the capital Friday, killing at least 17 people and wounding six, police and witnesses said.

Kenya: Somali pirates make $150M in a year
AP - 17 hours ago

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Kenya's foreign minister says Somali pirates have collected more than $150 million in ransoms over the past year.

Ex-child soldiers launch UN network to help kids
AP - 1 day ago

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Three former child soldiers from Africa announced the launch of a new U.N.-backed advocacy group Thursday to help other kids escape and heal from war.

UN approves sanctions on Somali pirates
AP - 1 day ago

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Thursday to impose sanctions on pirates, arms smugglers, and perpetrators of instability in Somalia in a fresh attempt to help end years of lawlessness in the Horn of Africa nation.

Carter, Annan press ahead with visit to Zimbabwe
AP - 1 day ago

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and others are pressing ahead with a humanitarian mission to Zimbabwe, though the state newspaper in the troubled southern African country signaled Thursday they are unwelcome.