France’s new socialist President, Francois Hollande, may turn out to be a valuable new friend as well. He will be welcomed at the White House before the G8 conference gets underway. There is no doubt this summit will be dominated by the latest appalling and enthralling installment of the Greek tragedy. Mr Obama is by [...]
Read the rest of this story »South Africa’s governing ANC says it will go to court after a gallery exhibited a painting with President Jacob Zuma’s genitals hanging out. Brett Murray’s painting by is an “abuse of freedom of artistic expression” said ANC spokesman Jackson Mthembu. He said he had asked lawyers to get the Johannesburg gallery to remove the $14,000 [...]
Read the rest of this story »2> A man has been arrested on suspicion of helping to carry out an attack on a nightclub in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa, police have said. He was one of five people injured after explosive devices were thrown into the popular club. Armed men lobbed what are thought to be grenades – after [...]
Read the rest of this story »The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor has said he is hopeful that a Congolese warlord will be arrested within weeks. Bosco Ntaganda is wanted on charges of committing crimes against humanity. Luis Moreno-Ocampo told the BBC that DR Congo and Rwanda both now believed that Gen Ntaganda should be arrested and his position was therefore [...]
Read the rest of this story »At least two suspected armed robbers have been killed after an explosive device they were carrying went off in Nigeria’s oil capital, Port Harcourt, police say. A BBC reporter at the scene says the passenger minibus they were travelling in has been completely destroyed. Two more people are in hospital in a critical condition. The [...]
Read the rest of this story »Seven people have been killed and more than 20 injured in clashes in Libya’s western desert town of Ghadames, the government says. Government spokesman Nasser el-Maneaa blamed an “armed group from outside the town” for the violence. He added that the army had been sent to Ghadames and the situation was now under control. Unconfirmed [...]
Read the rest of this story »At least two suspected armed robbers have been killed after an explosive device they were carrying went off in Nigeria’s oil capital, Port Harcourt, police say. A BBC reporter at the scene says the passenger minibus they were travelling in has been completely destroyed. Two more people are in hospital in a critical condition. The [...]
Read the rest of this story »A military court in Hargeisa, the capital of the self-proclaimed Somaliland, has sentenced 17 civilians to death for attacking a military base. The death penalties were handed down the day after the attack in which seven people were killed, a Somaliland official told the BBC. An armed group carried out the attack, claiming the military [...]
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