Ships from Italy, Germany, Britain and other EU countries have rescued nearly 6,000 migrants from the Mediterranean over the weekend. The influx has spurred backlash in Italy, where the migrants will initially be hosted. The ...
The UN refugee agency, citing government figures, on Friday said renewed fighting between armed groups in the Gao, Mopti and Timbuktu areas of northern Mali in the past four weeks has led to some 57,000 ...
A Somali lawmaker was shot and killed by gunmen in the capital Saturday, as dozens of Islamic extremists attacked two towns in southern Somalia, clashing with government troops in fighting that killed 18 militants and ...
Hundreds of Israeli Ethiopian Jews and activists held a rally on Monday evening in Tel Aviv to protest against alleged racism, an AFP journalist said. The march passed off without incident under the watch of ...
A number of Ethiopians arrested during last week’s protests against the Tel Aviv regime’s racism and police brutality say they were abused while in custody. The Ethiopians said the Israeli police denied them medical treatment ...
A car bomb killed at least nine people and wounded many others at a restaurant in Somalia’s capital on Tuesday, police said. In addition to the deaths, at least eight people were wounded in the ...
At least three Egyptian soldiers have been killed and five others wounded in a roadside bomb attack on their vehicle in Egypt’s restive Sinai Peninsula. Medical sources, requesting anonymity, said the remote-controlled improvised explosive device ...
At least six UN workers have been killed in a car bomb explosion in Somalia’s northeastern semi-autonomous region of Puntland. The bombing occurred as a minibus was entering the UN office in the city of ...
A smuggler’s boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off Libya’s coast as rescuers approached, causing what could be the Mediterranean’s deadliest known migrant tragedy and intensifying pressure on the European Union Sunday to finally ...
A video purportedly made by Daesh and posted on social media sites on Sunday appeared to show militants shooting and beheading about 30 Ethiopian Christians in Libya. The video, in which militants call Christians « crusaders » ...