France is coming to the rescue again, deploying soldiers in a former African colony to help stave off catastrophe — dirty work that Paris says it doesn’t really want. France has its eyes on a dynamic new Africa that is creating jobs, not conflicts. ...
Warring militias have enlisted up to 6,000 child soldiers in the Central African Republic, a senior U.N. official said Friday, issuing a stark warning about the country’s spiralling crisis. “Roughly today, we’re talking about 5,000-6,000 children, so the number has roughly doubled from our ...
African nations will Friday launch one of the biggest challenges yet to the International Criminal Court by forcing a U.N. Security Council vote on suspending the trial of Kenya’s president. A resolution seeking to defer crimes against humanity charges against President Uhuru Kenyatta and ...
On Lusaka’s Great East Road, the image of a young Chinese woman beamed from a recent billboard to encourage participation in Zambia’s census, a symbol of how much China has weaved its way into the nation as a donor, investor and partner. Zambia’s relationship ...
Japan plans to more than quadruple its defense attaches in Africa to nine from two in fiscal 2014 to expand its coverage to nine countries on the continent. The Defense Ministry wants to strengthen its military intelligence on Africa after a hostage crisis at ...
Officials said dozens of migrants, including children, died Friday when their boat sank near the Italian island of Lampedusa, just over a week after a similar tragedy killed more than 300 refugees. Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said at least 27 migrants were dead ...
When the bell rang at midday, students fetched tin bowls and lined up under trees in the schoolyard for scoops of corn and bean porridge. Not one of them was fussy about the food. After the rainy seasons shortchanged Engaruka, a Maasai village in ...
Divers in Italy retrieved dozens more bodies Sunday after a shipwreck in which more than 300 African refugees are feared to have died, and a government minister called for easing immigration rules. Divers working at a depth of some 50 meters described nightmarish scenes ...
Italy on Friday mourned the 300 African asylum seekers feared dead in the worst-ever Mediterranean refugee disaster, and its government asked Europe to help stem the influx of migrants. With the search for bodies off the island of Lampedusa suspended due to bad weather, ...
The deaths of scores of African asylum seekers off the Italian island of Lampedusa underlines Europe’s failure to cope with the flood of would-be immigrants knocking at its doors. Scenes of capsized boats and desperately hungry faces have become commonplace in Southern Europe, with ...
The African cuckoo finch is known for bamboozling other birds into raising its young, but new research has shown just how brazen the feathery rogue is in evading parental duty. The yellow bird, about the size of a sparrow, is a notorious freeloader. It ...
The attack that killed 69 people in a Kenyan shopping mall over the weekend was the first regional operation undertaken by the new leadership of Somalia’s al-Shabab militants following a bloody power struggle. After months of pressure from African troops against the al-Qaida-linked group ...
