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Trinidad and Tobago:Girl chopped to death, 2 arrested
Sat, 04 Feb 2012
A 17-year-old girl was chopped to death and her boyfriend seriously injured when several men stormed their Valencia home early yesterday morning. The girl has been identified as Shelly-Ann Amanda...
Suicide bomber kills two in central Somalia: official
Tue, 31 Jan 2012
At least two people were killed Tuesday when a suicide bomber attacked the house of a senior militia commander in the central Somali town of Galkayo, officials said. "A man wearing an explosive...
Libya boat accident leaves 15 dead, 40 missing
Sat, 28 Jan 2012
At least 15 Somali migrants were killed and 40 left missing after their boat capsized off the coast of Libya this week, the Somali ambassador to Tripoli said Saturday. "Fifteen bodies, including...
More than 5 mln going hungry in Niger
Thu, 19 Jan 2012
More than five million people are going hungry in Niger, the impoverished west African country's premier said Wednesday. A survey in December showed that "34.9 percent of Niger households,...
Two years on and Haiti still floundering
Fri, 13 Jan 2012
IN the Port-au-Prince suburb of Petionville, some 2,500 people subsist in a crowded public park near open ditches flowing with human waste, a grim scene frozen in time two years after Haiti's...
National radio: Guinea-Bissau president dies
Tue, 10 Jan 2012
BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau — President Malam Bacai Sanha, who was elected in this tiny, coup-prone nation on Africa's western coast about two years ago after the previous leader was assassinated...
Nigerian sect kills 15; Christians vow defense
Sun, 08 Jan 2012
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — A radical Muslim sect attacked a church worship service in Nigeria's northeast during assaults that killed at least 15 people, authorities said Saturday, as Christians...
Police: 20 killed in northeast Nigeria shooting
Fri, 06 Jan 2012
Suspected gunmen from a radical Muslim sect attacked a town hall Friday in rural northeast Nigeria, killing at least 20 people who had gathered for a meeting of a Christian ethnic group, police said...
Jamaica:Parents, grandma killed trying to save child
Thu, 05 Jan 2012
At minutes to 6 a.m. yesterday when the family awoke and found two-year-old Ronaldinho 'Nichile' Dixon not breathing, they panicked. They had been keeping a close watch on him the night...
Rwandan Hutu rebels kill 26 in DR Congo
Thu, 05 Jan 2012
At least 26 people have been killed and 13 wounded so far this year in two attacks by Rwandan Hutu rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, an army official said Wednesday. The attacks --...
150 children lose parents in South Sudan violence
Tue, 03 Jan 2012
NAIROBI, Kenya  — Red Cross volunteers say they are trying to reconnect 150 young children with their missing parents after tens of thousands of residents fled a massive wave of tribe-on-...
Five dead in Kenya New Year blast
Sun, 01 Jan 2012
Five people were killed in a New Year's Eve hand grenade attack and shooting in a bar in the eastern Kenyan town of Garissa near the border with Somalia, police said Sunday. "There was an...
Five killed in bomb blast at Nigerian mosque
Sat, 31 Dec 2011
Abuja - At least five people were killed in a bomb explosion at a mosque in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri after Friday prayers, police sources said. Several more worshippers were wounded...
Gunmen kill toddler near Nigeria flashpoint city
Wed, 28 Dec 2011
Gunmen have shot dead a three-year-old girl and her parents near the volatile central Nigerian city of Jos, a government spokesman and residents said Wednesday. The killing in the Christian-dominated...