Workers arrested at South Africa's Marikana mine have been charged with the murder of 34 of their colleagues shot by police, under an apartheid-era "common purpose" law.
A US judge awarded $21 million to seven Somalis in a lawsuit against former Somali prime minister Mohamed Ali Samantar for war crimes committed under the Siad Barre regime.
Islamophobes are portraying the outburst of ethnic violence in Kenya's Tana River Valley as part of a global jihad—ignoring the ecological roots of the conflict related to climate change.
A push by UN-backed African Union troops on the last bastion of Somalia’s al-Shabab insurgency has added to civilian casualties and raised fears of mass displacement.
The International Criminal Court received requests to investigate Rwandan President Paul Kagame for backing armed rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
South Africa’s National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), linked to the ruling ANC, and the upstart AMCU accuse each other of being controlled by the mineral industry.
A US court in Virginia sentenced convicted Somali pirate negotiator Mohammad Shibin to a dozen life sentences for piracy, hostage taking, kidnapping, conspiracy, and other charges.
Gunmen attacked two ships off the coast of Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta, killing two naval troops protecting the vessels and seizing four foreign workers before fleeing.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights urged Sudan to investigate claims of excessive force by government troops against protesters in Darfur, resulting in eight deaths.
Gunmen killed 17 in attacks on two churches in the Kenyan town of Garissa near the border with Somalia. Twitter site Al-Kataib, maintained by Somalia’s Shabaab rebel movement, boasted of a “successful operation in Garissa.”
Gen. Carter Ham of US Africa Command warned of growing coordination between three major terror networks across the continent: al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), al-Shabaab in Somalia, and Boko Haram in Nigeria.
After more than a week of student anti-austerity demonstrations in Sudan, President Omar al-Bashir finally responded to the movement, dismissing the protesters as “bubbles and aliens” who will be “dealt with.”
