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Report attacks SA crime and corruption
African governments have warned South Africa that growing corruption, rampant violent crime and xenophobia are undermining confidence in the continent...
Read More »Sudan snubbed as Ghana given African Union chair
Addis Ababa - The African Union (AU) handed its leadership to Ghana on Monday, after it made a controversial promise last year to appoint Sudan, a mov...
Read More »South Africa: Letter from the President
In June 1974, a few of us spent some days in Mogadishu, Somalia, as members of an ANC delegation. We had come to the capital of Somalia to attend the ...
Read More »Somalia in danger of reverting to chaos, U.S. military says
DOHA, Qatar: U.S. military officials here said Somalia could return to chaos in four months if international peacekeepers don't quickly replace depart...
Read More »Somali police convoy attacked
Two people have been killed after armed men attacked a convoy transporting Mogadishu's police chief, according to residents....
Read More »The Quiet War in the Horn of Africa
ALI ADDÉ, Djibouti — A curious crowd of women and men in billowing skirts streamed toward the landing zone as two U.S. Marine helicopters touched d...
Read More »K'Naan, the rapper from Africa is harder than 50 Cent
When K'Naan Warsame was 11 and walking through the city of his birth, he found what he thought was a rotten and strangely skewered potato. He pulled o...
Read More »Local Somalis ask for help
Huddled under the eaves of a building at South Huron Street and Michigan Avenue in Ypsilanti, about 15 local Somalis waved signs and posters urging an...
Read More »IGAD ministers meet over Somalia
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (Angola Press) - The Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Executive Secretary Dr Atallah Bashir Saturday met forei...
Read More »Somali gunmen attack police stations, 7 wounded
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Gunmen fired rocket-propelled grenades at Mogadishu police stations in the latest of a wave of guerrilla-style ambushes on the g...
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