News Summary: Civilian planes shot down by MANPADS
Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb is now thought to possess the SA-7, a surface-to-air missile in the category of MANPADS, or man-portable air-defense ...
Syria poses challenge for new US envoy at UN
Fiery human rights advocate Samantha Power has famously taken presidents to task for refusing to use military force to stop genocide. But as the U.S.
Congo fighting persists as UN chief arrives
M23 rebels fired two rockets into the eastern Congo city of Goma, killing one person and wounding four, officials said, in an apparent spillover from ...
'Boom Town Baby': African stock markets see gains
The barrage of hourly tweets sent out by Aly-Khan Satchu — East Africa's version of CNBC's Mad Money host Jim Cramer — cheers on what Satchu says is ...
M23 rebels clash with soldiers in eastern Congo
Clashes erupted Monday in eastern Congo between government troops and a rebel group believed to be backed by neighboring Rwanda, escalating to the use ...
Rwanda building collapse kills 6, injures 30
Six people were killed and dozens more injured when a four-story building under construction collapsed in eastern Rwanda, police said Wednesday as the ...
Hutu refugees fear forced return to Rwanda
Leodegard Kagaba lifted his shirt to reveal an ugly scar on his belly left by a bullet that nearly killed him. Tutsi neighbors in Rwanda, he said, ...
Genocide survivor: saved by member of enemy tribe
A Rwandan genocide survivor who became a U.S. citizen Wednesday says she was saved because her father trusted an exceptional member of an enemy tribe ...
US offers $5 million bounty for Kony
The Obama administration on Wednesday offered up to $5 million in rewards for information leading to the capture of Lord's Resistance Army chief ...
UN authorizes intervention force for Congo
The U.N. Security Council authorized a new "intervention brigade" for Congo on Thursday with an unprecedented mandate to take military action against ...
Rebel group: Congo warlord wanted control of M23
A spokesman for a Congolese rebel group said Thursday that rebel fighters in the M23 group were trying to kill warlord Bosco Ntaganda, who fled Congo ...
1 killed, 8 wounded in grenade attack in Rwanda
A police official in Rwanda says a grenade blast has killed one person and wounded eight. The attack happened in a busy area of Kigali, the capital, ...
International court detains Rwandan-born warlord
African warlord Bosco Ntaganda was taken from the U.S. Embassy in Rwanda on Friday and flown to International Criminal Court in The Hague, where he ...
Rwanda won't hinder US Embassy warlord transfer
Rwanda's justice minister said Thursday his government will not hinder the transfer of the warlord Bosco Ntaganda from the U.S. Embassy in Kigali to ...
Villagers say Rwandan troops crossed into Congo
Villagers in a town on the Congo-Rwanda border say they saw a half dozen trucks with Rwandan soldiers cross into Congo last week to lend support to ...
Congo M23 faction leader arrested in Rwanda
A faction of the M23 rebel group has regained control of all of the group's territory in eastern Congo, as the leader of its rival faction was ...
Dutch court: woman incited genocide in Rwanda
A Dutch court on Friday convicted a Rwandan-born Dutch woman of inciting genocide in Rwanda's 1994 mass murders of ethnic Tutsis by members of the ...
Rwanda's Kagame says he won't seek a 3rd term
Rwandan President Paul Kagame says he is not interested in running for a third term when his term ends in 2017. Kagame on Wednesday blamed the media ...
Congo neighbors agree not to support armed groups
Eleven African countries signed a United Nations-drafted peace deal on Sunday to stabilize the troubled Central African country of Congo, where rebels ...
Protests in Rwanda over genocide acquittals
Hundreds of Rwandans marched to the offices of the United Nations tribunal set up to try key cases related to Rwanda's 1994 genocide to protest the ...
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