http://www.mail.com/int/locations/3158-east-africa.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/int/locations/3158-east-africa.html http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/2109328-anti-muslim-actions-rise-uk-slain-soldier.html LONDON (AP) — Police, politicians and activists in Britain are warning of rising anti-Muslim sentiment following the slaughter of an off-duty British soldier in a London street, an apparent act of Islamic extremism that has horrified the nation. Metropolitan Police investigating the killing of Lee Rigby, a 25-year-old soldier who was run over by attackers... Sat, 25 May 2013 21:44:44 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/2109328-anti-muslim-actions-rise-uk-slain-soldier.html 2013-05-25T21:44:44Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2109182-kerry-1st-official-sub-saharan-africa-trip.html ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Making his first official trip to sub-Saharan Africa, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday demanded that Nigeria respect human rights as it cracks down on Islamist extremists and pledged to work hard in the coming months to ease tensions between Sudan and South Sudan. Kerry, attending the African Union's 50th anniver... Sat, 25 May 2013 20:08:19 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2109182-kerry-1st-official-sub-saharan-africa-trip.html 2013-05-25T20:08:19Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2109330-ethiopia-african-union-celebrates-50-years.html ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — The African Union on Saturday marked 50 years since the founding of a continentwide organization that helped liberate Africa from colonial masters and which now is trying to stay relevant on a continent regularly troubled by conflict. Opening a summit of the African Union in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopian Prime ... Sat, 25 May 2013 13:34:39 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2109330-ethiopia-african-union-celebrates-50-years.html 2013-05-25T13:34:39Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2107868-un-chief-challenges-african-leaders-congo.html KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday urged African leaders to implement a peace plan that the U.N. hopes will stabilize eastern Congo, a region long plagued by violence and which now is back on edge. Ban told a news conference in Uganda that he expects regional leaders to try to find solutions as eastern Congo once... Fri, 24 May 2013 15:22:22 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2107868-un-chief-challenges-african-leaders-congo.html 2013-05-24T15:22:22Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2107540-uganda-president-ousts-army-boss-amid-dispute.html KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni fired his top military commander Friday, the ouster apparently linked to turmoil over Museveni's alleged plan to have his son succeed him as head of state. Sacked army chief Gen. Aronda Nyakairima was appointed minister of internal affairs, effectively cutting his links to the army's chain of comman... Fri, 24 May 2013 14:40:39 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2107540-uganda-president-ousts-army-boss-amid-dispute.html 2013-05-24T14:40:39Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/uk/2107620-attack-casts-spotlight-radical-preachers.html LONDON (AP) — The slaying of a British soldier in southeast London cast a spotlight on radical preachers that influenced Michael Adebolajo, the attacker seen in videos with bloody hands holding a butcher knife. It also raised questions about the reach of the terrorist group al-Shabab, after a British government official said one of the two men tried to go to Somalia to train... Fri, 24 May 2013 13:02:59 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/uk/2107620-attack-casts-spotlight-radical-preachers.html 2013-05-24T13:02:59Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2107734-correction-mozambique-un-story.html MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) — In a story May 21 about U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon visiting Mozambique, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Mozambique became independent in 1974, instead of 1975. A corrected version of the story is below: Ban praises Mozambique efforts, asks for more Ban Ki-Moon praises progress in Mozambique, says resource i... Fri, 24 May 2013 12:22:27 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2107734-correction-mozambique-un-story.html 2013-05-24T12:22:27Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2105906-s-sudan-leader-intl-court-humiliates-africa.html JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan's president is criticizing the International Criminal Court, saying the court is designed to humiliate African leaders. Salva Kiir spoke Thursday during a visit by Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, who faces ICC charges related to Kenya's post-election violence in 2007-08 that killed more than 1,000 people. Kiir said th... Thu, 23 May 2013 17:32:18 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2105906-s-sudan-leader-intl-court-humiliates-africa.html 2013-05-23T17:32:18Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2104842-un-chief-visits-goma-congo.html GOMA, Congo (AP) — United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed Thursday that security must go hand-in-hand with development in Congo's troubled eastern city of Goma, arriving just hours after a rebel group halted fighting to allow the visit to proceed. The U.N. chief traveled to Congo, and specifically to Goma, for the first time since the Secur... Thu, 23 May 2013 16:49:22 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2104842-un-chief-visits-goma-congo.html 2013-05-23T16:49:22Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2105498-violence-somalia-scares-investors-aid-workers.html MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A spate of attacks by Islamic insurgents in Somalia's capital is forcing investors, businessmen and aid workers to have second thoughts about expanding operations in Mogadishu. African Union and Somali troops pushed al-Shabab insurgents out of the capital in August 2011, fostering a relatively secure peace that Mogadishu hasn't s... Thu, 23 May 2013 15:38:36 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2105498-violence-somalia-scares-investors-aid-workers.html 2013-05-23T15:38:36Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2102486-congo-fighting-persists-un-chief-arrives.html GOMA, Congo (AP) — 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 three days of fighting raging north of the city. The attack underscores the heightening tension in Congo and comes as U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Congo's capital far to t... Wed, 22 May 2013 21:58:06 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2102486-congo-fighting-persists-un-chief-arrives.html 2013-05-22T21:58:06Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2102410-kenyas-truth-report-killings-land-grabs-graft.html NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya's president received a long-awaited Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission report that names the president and his deputy as being among those suspected of planning and financing Kenya's 2007-08 postelection violence in which more than 1,000 people died and 600,000 were evicted from their homes. President Uhuru Kenyatta an... Wed, 22 May 2013 15:54:11 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2102410-kenyas-truth-report-killings-land-grabs-graft.html 2013-05-22T15:54:11Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2102718-african-union-celebrates-50th-year.html ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — African nations this week mark the 50th year since the founding of a continentwide organization that spearheaded efforts to liberate Africa from colonial masters. Now leaders want to map out the next 50 years of political and economic integration. Konjit Sinegiorgis was a young diplomat tasked with distributing documents to th... Wed, 22 May 2013 14:37:56 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2102718-african-union-celebrates-50th-year.html 2013-05-22T14:37:56Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2100044-uganda-leaders-legacy-stake-generals-case.html KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — An army general's concern that officials are at risk of assassination if they oppose President Yoweri Museveni's alleged plan to have his son succeed him has stirred controversy in Uganda because it challenges the popular view of Museveni as a moderate leader, analysts said Tuesday. Police continued their search Tuesday of a daily n... Tue, 21 May 2013 15:39:48 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2100044-uganda-leaders-legacy-stake-generals-case.html 2013-05-21T15:39:48Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2097534-m23-rebels-clash-with-soldiers-eastern-congo.html GOMA, Congo (AP) — Clashes erupted Monday in eastern Congo between government troops and a rebel group believed to be backed by neighboring Rwanda, escalating to the use of mortars and rocket launchers in the first fighting between the groups since the M23 rebels overtook and later retreated from the provincial capital of Goma last year. Fears that the re... Mon, 20 May 2013 16:43:25 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2097534-m23-rebels-clash-with-soldiers-eastern-congo.html 2013-05-20T16:43:25Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2097580-51-die-2-south-sudan-clashes-army-retakes-town.html JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Twenty-four people died in a battle between South Sudan's military and rebel fighters the government believes to be supported by neighboring Sudan, while a tribe-on-tribe cattle-raiding attack elsewhere in the country killed 27 people, officials said Monday. A battle in Jonglei state on Sunday killed 20 rebel fighters and four gov... Mon, 20 May 2013 13:03:34 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2097580-51-die-2-south-sudan-clashes-army-retakes-town.html 2013-05-20T13:03:34Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2096022-kenya-police-kill-terror-couple.html NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Police shot dead a couple suspected to be terrorists after they threw four grenades, wounding five officers in an overnight stand-off, a police official said Sunday. Following a tip, investigators raided the apartment where the couple was staying in the Githurai Kimbo area on the outskirts of Nairobi Saturday evening and ordered them... Sun, 19 May 2013 12:20:56 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2096022-kenya-police-kill-terror-couple.html 2013-05-19T12:20:56Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2092750-s-sudan-doctors-without-borders-hospital-ruined.html NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The medical aid group Doctors Without Borders says one of its medical facilities located in a rural but violent region of South Sudan has been ransacked and destroyed. The group said Friday the attack leaves 100,000 people without medical care in South Sudan's Jonglei state. MSF — as the group is also known — said its hospital infras... Fri, 17 May 2013 10:22:12 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2092750-s-sudan-doctors-without-borders-hospital-ruined.html 2013-05-17T10:22:12Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2090624-mystical-branch-islam-resurgence-somalia.html MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Hundreds of sweating Sufis chant and sway as the lead sheik moves into the middle of a circle of worshippers and bursts into a chant louder than anyone else's Sufism, a mystical branch of Islam, is having a major comeback since al-Shabab, an armed militant Islamic group, was pushed out of Somalia's capital in August 2011. The Sun... Thu, 16 May 2013 15:31:31 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2090624-mystical-branch-islam-resurgence-somalia.html 2013-05-16T15:31:31Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2086560-rwanda-building-collapse-kills-6-injures-30.html KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Six people were killed and dozens more injured when a four-story building under construction collapsed in eastern Rwanda, police said Wednesday as the rescue effort ended. Christophe Semuhungu, the police spokesman for Rwanda's Eastern Province, said rescue workers from the police and the military had found no more bodies after comb... Wed, 15 May 2013 12:02:45 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2086560-rwanda-building-collapse-kills-6-injures-30.html 2013-05-15T12:02:45Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2085090-war-crimes-prosecutor-receives-israel-complaint.html AMSTERDAM (AP) — The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court — the permanent war crimes court in The Hague, Netherlands — says she has received a complaint about Israel's 2010 raid on a humanitarian aid flotilla bound for Gaza, and she will open a preliminary investigation. The complaint comes from the tiny African state of Comoros, a member of the... Tue, 14 May 2013 21:04:59 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2085090-war-crimes-prosecutor-receives-israel-complaint.html 2013-05-14T21:04:59Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2084784-kenyan-wants-to-skip-war-crimes-trial.html AMSTERDAM (AP) — Deputy President William Ruto of Kenya asked international war crimes judges Tuesday if he can skip most of his trial and attend only its opening and closing sessions, and any other sessions judges deem particularly necessary. At a hearing at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, Ruto said he is seeking to balance hi... Tue, 14 May 2013 18:17:45 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2084784-kenyan-wants-to-skip-war-crimes-trial.html 2013-05-14T18:17:45Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2080108-correction-somaliland-rapes-story.html MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — In a story May 12 about rapes in a region of Somalia known as Somaliland, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Somaliland declared independence from the rest of Somalia in 1960. Somaliland declared independence in 1991. A corrected version of the story is below: An upsurge of gang rapes has hit the breakaway region of S... Tue, 14 May 2013 17:13:37 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2080108-correction-somaliland-rapes-story.html 2013-05-14T17:13:37Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2084404-kenyan-protesters-release-pigs-parliament-pay.html NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Nearly three dozen piglets were released and animal blood spilled Tuesday at an entrance to Kenya's parliament as civil society activists protested what they called parliament's greedy salary demands. Police fired tear gas and water cannons and swung their batons to disperse the protesters, who gathered in what was dubbed the "Occupy... Tue, 14 May 2013 16:31:01 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2084404-kenyan-protesters-release-pigs-parliament-pay.html 2013-05-14T16:31:01Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2084488-ethiopian-govt-minister-businessmen-arrested.html ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — An Ethiopian court ruled Tuesday that prosecutors have two weeks to finalize corruption charges against two dozen people who have been arrested, including a senior Cabinet minister. The 24 people charged include the head of Ethiopia's revenue and customs authority, Melaku Fenta. They are accused of illegal trading and tax evas... Tue, 14 May 2013 14:56:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2084488-ethiopian-govt-minister-businessmen-arrested.html 2013-05-14T14:56:00Z