(SomaliNet) The aid agency Doctors Without Borders (MSF - Medecins Sans Frontieres) has shut down two offices in eastern Chad and evacuated its staff after armed robberies, the charity said on Thursday.
The aid agency said that all activities in Ade and Goz Beida had been suspended indefinitely,
(SomaliNet) Zambian authorities and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have mounted investigations into the unknown disease that has so far claimed four lives in South Africa.
On Monday, Zambia's High Commissioner in Pretoria, Leslie Mbula, said reports from Zambia indicated that no other person
(SomaliNet) Denying it planned new talks later in the day with President Robert Mugabe's ruling party, Zimbabwe's opposition renewed a call on Monday for regional mediators to help break an impasse over a fragile power-sharing deal.
Zimbabwe’s state-run Herald newspaper reported that new talks
(SomaliNet) Amnesty International on Tuesday 7th 2008 said that those displaced by May’s xenophobic violence in South Africa face serious threats to their safety, as the last remaining camps for the displaced are closed and their asylum-claims are overwhelmingly rejected.
The warning came as t
(SomaliNet) In an effort to to promote reconciliation 14 years after his death, which helped triggered genocide in the central African nation, Rwanda plans to turn the former home of assassinated President Juvenal Habyarimana into a museum.
Habyarimana died on April 6, 1994, when his private jet
(SomaliNet) Unless Nigeria’s local government officials accused of corruption are properly dealt with, the militants in Nigeria's oil-producing south said on Wednesday that they would create a "state of anarchy".
Meanwhile, Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has said it
(SomaliNet) At least 9 people were killed when an apartment building collapsed in the city of Alexandria on Egypt's northern coast overnight, security sources said on Wednesday.
According to the source, at least three more people were missing and feared dead.
MENA added that the dead include
(SomaliNet) Zimbabwe’s main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) is endangering power-sharing talks which have stalled over cabinet posts, Zimbabwe's Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa said on Wednesday but advising that negotiations would continue.
Since Sept. 15, two MDC facti
(SomaliNet) A bus plunged into a river in Mpumalanga province in South Africa killing atleast 31 people, in an accident that local police say the driver lost control of the wheel for reasons that have not yet been determined.
The bus driver was killed, together with 26 passengers. Five other pas
(SomaliNet) Three months after a diplomatic row erupted over the arrest of a son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in Geneva, Libya cut oil supplies to Switzerland on Thursday.
In July, OPEC member Libya said it would suspend Swiss oil sales after Hannibal Gaddafi was arrested and charged with mis
