Tens of thousands have taken to the streets in Niger to protest President Mamadou Tandja’s plan for a new constitution to abolish term limits and give him more power after 10 years as president.
Police arrested 13 women in a raid on a cafe in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, and flogged 10 of them in public for wearing trousers.
The Nigerian government freed militant leader Henry Okah, meeting a demand by Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND)—one day after rebels blew up an oil depot in Lagos.
ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has filed an appeal to have Sudan’s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir charged with genocide—but AU leaders say they will not cooperate in his arrest.
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) blew up a Chevron platform “in retaliation” for the “abduction of a traditional chief” by Nigeria’s Joint Task Force.
More voices are raised calling for the West to play a Sufi card against Islamist insurgents in Somalia, as well as Pakistan and elsewhere. But will this only destroy the Sufis’ credibility?
A sharia court run by Somalia’s Shabab insurgents in Mogadishu sentenced four teenagers to each have a hand and a leg amputated as punishment for stealing cellphones.
Presumed militants of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) attacked Shell facilities in the latest escalation of its “all-out war” on the Nigerian government and oil companies.
Ethiopian troops have reportedly crossed into Somalia after the transitional government there made a plea for foreign forces to help battle insurgents.
Khartoum is accused of providing arms that were used to attack barges carrying UN food aid, in a bid to spread dissent between rival ethnic groups ahead of the vote on South Sudan independence.
Nigeria’s Ogoni people are divided over Shell Oil’s agreement to pay $15.5 million as an out-of-court settlement over accusations that it was complicit in rights abuses in the 1990s.
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