Shabab insurgents amputated a foot and a hand from each of two young men accused of robbery in the southern port of Kismayu. The militants compelled thousands of residents to watch.
The African Union and France are threatening sanctions after the Guinean army fired on protesters in the capital, Conakry, killing 157.
The same day a US Special Forces helicopter raid reportedly killed a Shabab insurgent leader in Somalia, residents at the southern village of Erile reported a second chopper raid by French forces
A majority of readers support the Sufis fighting the fundamentalist Shabab insurgents in Somalia, but do not think the US should arm them.
At least 185 Lou Nuer tribespeople were killed in South Sudan's Jonglei state by Murle fighters. The fighting has claimed several hundred lives this year—more than in Darfur.
International rights groups are demanding an investigation after the leader of Nigeria’s Boko Haram rebels reportedly “died in police custody.” Some 300 were killed in the 72-hour offensive.
Rebels of a group known as the “Nigerian Taliban” expanded attacks against security forces to three northern states, leaving at least 80 people dead in two days of clashes.
Chad admitted to an air raid on rebel positions in Darfur, but denied attacking Sudan’s armed forces or populace in the raid.
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.
