Other-News

Nigeria "robbers" accidentally blow up own bus

Posted by ATACMAG on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 11:27am in Other-News, Africa, Nigeria, PORT HARCOURT

PORT HARCOURT - A suspected armed robber was killed when explosives his gang was transporting accidentally went off in the centre of Nigeria's main oil city of Port Harcourt on Thursday, police

Africa: Competition for the AU Commission Leadership Intensifies

Posted by ATACMAG on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 7:45am in News, Politics, Business, Other-News, Africa, african union, AU, Leadership

The African Union's (AU) Eight-member Ad hoc Committee of Heads of State and Government (Committee of Eight) met in Cotonou, Benin on 14 May 2012, to discuss the election of the Chairperson, De

Kenyan police arrest suspect in grenade attack

Posted by ATACMAG on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 7:28am in Other-News, Arrest, grenade, kenya, police

Kenyan police have arrested a man suspected to have taken part in a grenade attack on a restaurant in the coastal city of Mombasa that killed one, police chief Mathew Iteere told journalists Wednes

Top Joseph Kony commander captured

Posted by ATACMAG on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 9:14am in Other-News, Joseph Kony, kampala, Lord Resistance army, Lt. col. col. Abdul Rugumayo, Uganda

KAMPALA, Uganda — Ugandan forces captured a senior commander of Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army after a brief fight with rebels near the Congo-Central African Republic border, an

Election candidate murdered in south Libya

Posted by ATACMAG on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 9:04am in Politics, Other-News, Africa, Khaled Abu Saleh, libya, murder, Politics

A candidate in the upcoming poll for a constituent assembly was murdered in Libya's southern desert on Sunday shortly after submitting his registration, a security official said. "Kha

Somalia: Pirates Hijack Oil Tanker

Posted by ATACMAG on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 8:20am in Other-News, Africa, hijack, somali pirates, somalia

Somali pirates have hijacked a Greek-owned oil tanker carrying close to a million barrels of crude oil in the Arabian Sea, the first successful attack on an oil tanker off the Horn of Africa in mor