Africa

Coronavirus claims first life in Tunisia

2 hours 8 min ago

Tunisian authorities say man contracted new SARS-like virus after visit to Saudi Arabia

Libya war weapons may be killing central Africa elephants : UN

16 hours 3 min ago

UNITED NATIONS — Armed groups in central Africa are using powerful weapons, some of which may be left over from the civil war in Libya, to kill elephants for their ivory, the...

Car bomb kills 3 outside Benghazi hospital

14 May

BENGHAZI (Libya) — A car bomb killed at least three people outside a hospital in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi yesterday (May 13), doctors said, in a further sign of the...

Egypt thwarts terrorist attack on embassy

12 May

CAIRO — Egyptian security forces have thwarted a plan by an Al Qaeda-linked cell to carry out a suicide attack on a foreign embassy, capturing three militants, the interior...

Too early to judge Morsi: Mubarak

12 May

CAIRO — Former Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak said it was too early to judge President Mohamed Morsi, saying the Islamist politician faced a difficult job, in comments billed as...

No Somali pirate hijackings in a year

03 May

UNITED NATIONS — A United States diplomat says the fight against Somali pirates has been so successful that there hasn’t been a hijacking off the Somali coast, in the Red Sea or...

Algerian president in France for medical tests after minor stroke

28 April

ALGIERS — Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has been transferred to France for further medical tests after suffering a minor stroke on Saturday, Algeria’s official news...

Nigerian senator says 228 killed in gunfight

28 April

MAIDUGURI (Nigeria) — A gunbattle between security forces and Islamist insurgents in Nigeria a week ago killed 228 people, a local senator said yesterday, putting the death toll...

Morsi invites judges to discuss Egypt judicial reform crisis

28 April

CAIRO — Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has invited senior figures from the judiciary to discuss a crisis triggered by proposed reforms that would push out thousands of judges,...