(SomaliNet) Ahead of the execution of three of the perpetrators of the 2002 Bali bomb attacks in Indonesia, there is increasing unrest.
After receiving a text message threatening attacks on the US and Australian embassies in Jakarta, Indonesian police have launched an immediate investigation.
(SomaliNet) Unless the government agreed to talks on the country's future, Congolese rebel leader Laurent Nkunda threatened on Tuesday to take his eastern guerrilla war westwards to the capital Kinshasa.
The rebel chief, defiant in the face of international moves to end the conflict in east Democ
(SomaliNet) Saying the South African state would be ready, a spokesman for the National Prosecuting Authority, which has spearheaded the case against Zuma, confirmed a media report that the court in Bloemfontein would hear arguments on November 28.
"We welcome the opportunity to have these issues
(SomaliNet) A government official said on Tuesday that a Cameroon court sentenced a poacher to five years in jail and a hefty fine for killing eight elephants.
The official said after a tip-off from villagers, a 23-strong search party of paramilitary gendarmes, government officials and park guard
(SomaliNet) The U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has asked the Security Council to approve a "surge" of more than 3,000 troops and police to help prevent a full-scale war from erupting in eastern Congo.
The UN chief urged the 15-nation council to consider the request "expeditiously" given the p
(SomaliNet) Barack Obama, the son of an African man from Kenya is now the president-elect of the United States. But is there a lesson that African electoral politics, often dominated by tribal affiliation can draw from the coalition that helped propel Obama to victory.
Professor Egara Kabaji, sen
(SomaliNet) Villagers who fled fighting in this rebel-held town have trickled home to find the bodies of more than a dozen men in civilian clothes in and around mud huts - and accused rebel leader Laurent Nkunda's forces of the slayings.
Nkunda's men wrested control of Kiwanja on Wednesday follow
(SomaliNet) South Africa's ANC leader Jacob Zuma said on Friday that Southern African leaders must "force" Zimbabwe's sparring parties to break the deadlock over a power-sharing deal at a summit this weekend.
"As far as I'm concerned SADC must make those Zimbabweans reach an agreement," Zuma said
(SomaliNet) In what sources say occurred after a leadership dispute, several people were injured on Thursday in clashes between rival factions of Egypt's opposition Ghad party, including one headed by renowned political dissident Ayman Nur,.
Several people were lightly hurt as the rival groups th
(SomaliNet) An emergency summit on the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo has gotten underway in the Kenyan capital Nairobi.
According to reports, one of the main goals of the talks is to rekindle dialogue between Congolese President Joseph Kabila and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame
