20120314 AP DHOBLEY, Somalia (AP) — Adan Abdi worries that the students in his class show too little interest in education. That might be a common complaint among teachers, but Abdi's concerns go further: His students are interested in playing war.
20120314 AFP The death toll after grenade attacks in the Kenyan capital at the weekend has risen to nine, after three more people died of their injuries, the Kenya Red Cross said Tuesday.
20120314 AFP South Africa on Tuesday honoured an 80-year-old driver as a "sterling example" for going 62 years without a single traffic fine, in a nation where 40 people are killed on the roads every day.
20120314 AFP Countries that stock weapons and ammunition in urban areas should remove them to other places, a UN official said Tuesday, after 223 people died when a munitions dump in Congo exploded.
20120314 AFP An armed Islamist group led by an influential Tuareg rebel fighting for autonomy in northern Mali called for the national imposition of Sharia law in a video seen Tuesday by AFP.
20120313 AFP After winning a long court battle with Botswana's government, the Bushmen of the Kalahari can drill new water wells and return to their ancestral lands.
20120313 AFP The Democratic Republic of Congo's famed Virunga National Park has deployed bloodhounds to track down elephant poachers, a park official said Monday.
20120313 AFP France on Monday detained a close aide to disgraced Tunisian former first lady Leila Trabelsi on an international arrest warrant in a corruption probe, an official close to the case said.
20120313 AFP More than six million people in Niger need immediate help as the country faces a persistent food crisis due to drought and a number of other factors, the UN and humanitarian group Oxfam said Monday.
20120313 AFP Kenyan police on Monday released four people, including three minors, arrested over weekend grenade attacks that killed six in the capital Nairobi, the suspects' lawyer said.
20120313 AFP Fierce ethnic clashes over cattle rustling killed more than 200 people in South Sudan at the weekend, and hundreds more were abducted in the troubled fledgling nation, a state governor said Monday.
20120313 AFP Kenya will avail 4,660 soldiers to the African Union force in Somalia, where it already has troops fighting the Al Qaeda-linked Shebab insurgents, the army chief said Monday.
20120313 AP IBANDA, Uganda (AP) — A military instructor clad in fatigues and boots who barks out orders to men half her age has become the unlikely star of a European Union program to train thousands of Somali troops.
20120313 AFP Belgium launched a bid in the UN's highest court Monday to force Senegal to bring Hissene Habre, dubbed "Africa's Pinochet", to trial for crimes against humanity or to extradite him.
20120313 AFP Former prime minister Guillaume Soro was unanimously elected the new speaker of Ivory Coast's parliament on Monday, becoming the first new holder of the post in a decade.
20120313 AFP Hackers claiming to belong to the Anonymous Internet freedom group posted video messages on Facebook pages of Tunisian Islamists, threatening reprisals over their efforts to introduce Salafist laws.
20120313 AFP Gunmen shot dead three Christians in Nigeria near the flashpoint city of Jos, hours after 10 people were killed in a suicide bombing and related violence at a church, an official said Monday.
20120313 AFP South Africa's department of mines will not recover the bodies of at least 20 illegal miners presumed dead after a disused gold mine collapsed on them last week, an official said Monday.
