Botswana Bushmen to bring land dispute to World Court
The First People of Kalahari announced that the San Bushmen will take their land dispute case against the Botswana government to the International Court of Justice.
The First People of Kalahari announced that the San Bushmen will take their land dispute case against the Botswana government to the International Court of Justice.
Nigerian authorities imposed a curfew in the north-central city of Jos after four days of fighting between Muslims and Christians killed at least 200 people.
Thousands of internally displaced in Somalia’s central town of Beletweyne are on the move again following 10 days of fighting between rival Islamist militias.
The US filed a new indictment against alleged Somali pirate Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse, claiming that he led the takeover of two additional ships. Muse pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The Nigerian army confirmed that a Chevron pipeline had been sabotaged, leading to the shutdown of 20,000 barrels a day in the Niger Delta.
World-renowned political organizer and one of Africa’s most celebrated poets, Dennis Brutus, died early on Dec. 26 in Cape Town, in his sleep, aged 85.
The Red Cross says that of the 39 killed in a clash between government forces and the Yan Kala-Kato Islamic sect in the Nigerian state of Bauchi, some 60% were children.
Chad launched air-strikes against rebels supposedly backed by Sudan, while Sudanese security forces used tear gas to break up opposition protests in Khartoum.
A new Human Rights Watch report documents in detail the deliberate killing of more than 1,400 civilians during Congolese army operations against a Rwandan Hutu militia this year.
The family of Kenyan Guantánamo Bay detainee Mohamed Abdulmalik filed suit against the Kenyan government claiming he was illegally detained, tortured and renditioned to US authorities.
Sudan hosts more than 66,000 Eritrean refugees, the first of whom arrived in 1968 during the war of independence against Ethiopia. They say they now fear persecution in Eritrea and refuse repatriation.
Climate change could increase the likelihood of civil war in sub-Saharan Africa by over 50% within the next two decades, according to a new study by leading researchers.