Tunézia, Sfax – Néhány nap alatt már a negyedik ember gyújtja fel magát Tunéziában. Sfaxban egy 45 éve nő lelte halálát az önégetésben. Közben belehalt sérüléseibe az a…
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Somali pirates arrested trying to board Spanish navy ship
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali pirates tried to board a Spanish navy ship off the Horn of Africa nation but it repulsed the attack and arrested six pirates, the European…
S.African rangers kill poachers in Kruger park
Authorities have killed two suspected poachers, arrested two others and found 11 rhino carcasses in the same area of South Africa's Kruger National Park in one week, a spokesman said Thursday.
57 killed in new South Sudan clashes: government
New ethnic clashes in South Sudan's troubled Jonglei state have killed 57 people, the government of the world's newest nation said late Thursday.
Elmarad a zsidók egyiptomi zarándokútja
Izrael, Tel Aviv – A minden év január végére szervezett egyiptomi zsidó zarándoklatot ebben az évben nem tartják meg. A Muszlim Testvériségre, a szalafistákra és biztonsági okokra hivatkoznak.
Namibia green lights Chinese uranium buy-in
WINDHOEK — Namibia's competition commission said Wednesday it had cleared a Chinese nuclear company to take over an Australian mining firm with rights to the world's fourth-largest uranium…
Guinea-Bissau’s Sanha to be buried Sunday
The body of Guinea-Bissau's President Malam Bacai Sanha, who died in a Paris hospital earlier this week, will be flown back Saturday and buried the next day, a foreign ministry official said.
Three Kenyan police shot dead near Somali border
Gunmen killed three Kenyan police and wounded two others in the latest of a string of attacks in the northeastern border region with war-torn Somalia, police said Thursday.
South Africa loses 8 rhinos in 1 day
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African rangers say they have found eight dead rhinos that had been stripped of their horns, an unprecedented one-day toll.
Senegal court rejects Habre extradition to Belgium
DAKAR (Reuters) - A Senegalese court on Wednesday rejected a Belgium request to extradite former Chad president Hissene Habre to Belgium to stand trial for alleged atrocities while he…