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.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague opened the trial of two Congolese militia leaders charged in the killings of more than 200 men, women, and children.
The Justice Department unsealed indictments against eight defendants for recruiting and providing financial support to the Somali insurgent organization al-Shabaab.
A new report by the Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights details “extensive and systematic” rights violations faced by thousands of political prisoners in Eritrea.
