[World body admits it should have done more to prevent 2010-2012 tragedy, finding half of those who died were children. Almost 260,000 people, half of them young children, died of hunger during the last famine in Somalia, according to a UN report…

[At least 20 vehicles loaded with anti-aircraft guns block road as 200 armed men demand removal of Gaddafi-era staff. Armed men have surrounded Libya’s foreign ministry in the capital, Tripoli, to push demands that officials who had worked for deposed leader Muammar…

[Un attentat à la voiture piégée. Un véhicule a explosé mardi matin devant l’ambassade de France en Libye, à Tripoli. Deux gendarmes français sont blessés. Un grièvement, l’autre n’a que des égratignures. D’après des témoins, le quartier est méconnaissable. Le bâtiment abritant…

[UNITED NATIONS: Rwanda won a behind-the-scenes battle Monday to keep the U.N. Security Council from recommending any role for the International Criminal Court in solving conflicts, violence and human rights abuse in Africa, saying the Hague-based court “condemns crimes committed by some…

[Une attaque contre le principal tribunal de Mogadiscio et un attentat à la voiture piégée a entraîné la mort d’une trentaine de civils ce dimanche en Somalie. Des hommes armés portant des explosifs ont lancé un assaut contre le complexe judiciaire. Certains…

[A senior civil servant says at least 36 people have lost their lives and over 2,000 families have been displaced in three weeks of flooding in Kenya. Andrew Mondoh, the second-in-command at the Special Programs Ministry, said on Thursday that heavy rains…

[Alors qu’une nouvelle personne a été tuée dimanche lors d’affrontements entre coptes et musulmans, le président égyptien a ordonné une enquête. Mohamed Morsi, le président égyptien, est intervenu dimanche soir pour tenter de mettre fin aux violences religieuses entre coptes, les chrétiens…

[Chinese President Xi Jinping has promised to cooperate with African nations on the basis of equality, a pledge aimed at easing African concerns about Beijing’s growing influence on the continent. In a keynote speech to Africans in Tanzania’s economic hub of Dar…

[CENTRAL African rebels seized control of the capital Bangui as the president fled, but they promised to respect a January peace deal that provides for elections within three years. Looters and armed gangs roamed the streets of the city and there were…

[Democratic Republic of Congo rebel Bosco Ntaganda, wanted by the International Criminal Court for a string of alleged atrocities, has surrendered to the US embassy in Kigali, US and Rwandan officials said on Monday. Ntaganda asked to be sent to the ICC,…