Hundreds of villagers fled as Kenya mobilized military forces to hunt for cattle rusters after bandits killed over 30 local police officers in Samburu district, Rift Valley province.
The Sudanese government charged that Israeli airstrikes were responsible for explosions overnight at the Yarmouk Military Industrial Complex, an armaments plant in Khartoum.
Gunmen killed 22 in an attack on a mosque in Nigeria, while Muslim youth attacked churches in Dar es Salaam following reports of a Christian youth desecrating a Koran.
A US appeals court dismissed a lawsuit against Rwandan President Paul Kagame alleging he ordered the 1994 killings of the former presidents of Rwanda and Burundi.
Shell Oil faces litigation over Nigerian oil spills in the Dutch courts, while the Obama administration is urging the US Supreme Court to dismiss a similar case.
The High Court of England and Wales ruled that three elderly Kenyans can sue the British government for torture they suffered while in detention under colonial rule in the 1950s.
A string of bombings rocked Somalia’s port of Kismayo—five days after the city was taken from al-Shabaab rebels by a Kenyan-led force following a lengthy siege.
Ethiopia's Meles Zenawi died without having to answer for his war crimes—he remained in the good graces of the West to the end, getting a free ride from the world media.
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.
