{Burundi's president on Friday threatened to pull out almost 5,500 troops contributing to the African Union mission in Somalia over nearly a year of unpaid allowances, in another sign of tensions with the force's largest donor, the European Union.} If there is no payment by January, Burundi will recall the more than 5,400 troops from […]

{What remains of Richard Elias's 20,000 cotton plants are steely weeds and barren soil.} He picks dead leaves from the sallow trees, more from boredom than out of hope it will do any good. He watched heartbroken as the rain stopped, and his plants withered and died. For years, the father and his son, Chapepa, […]

{Over the weekend, ABC10 News received an email from a local viewer, Julia Wyman.} She wanted to know why we hadn’t covered a massacre that had occurred in the Democratic Republic of Congo earlier this month. More than 60 people had been killed. She wrote: “Black lives in America matter, black lives in Europe matter, […]

{Two Australian companies are being investigated over alleged bribery scandals linked to the presidents of Sri Lanka and the Congo, after the firms sought to secure multi-million-dollar contracts in those countries.} A Fairfax Media and 7.30 investigation can reveal Perth's Sundance Resources is implicated in an alleged bribery plot involving some family members of Republic […]

{At the great pyramid of Giza just outside the teeming Egyptian capital, Hamed, a souvenir-seller sits alone.} His stall usually throngs with tourists paying homage to the oldest of the seven wonders of the ancient world. But today, like every day for the last year, it's slim pickings. The tourism industry in Egypt has all […]

{While the Gatumba massacre of 2004 in the African country of Burundi stands out as the worst of the attacks on the Congolese Banyamulenge tribe, problems continue for the ethnic group.} Members of the tribe will visit Wollongong in New South Wales on Saturday to remember their friends and family who were killed in the […]

{Papa Wemba, one of Africa's greatest music stars, has died after collapsing on stage during a festival in Ivory Coast.} The Congolese world music legend, renowned as the "king of Congolese rumba" for the fusion of Cuban and electronic rock that he pioneered in the 1970s, was 66. He died after falling ill during a […]

{South African authorities will try to extradite an Australian flight attendant accused of involvement in a high-profile kidnapping and murder, after three men were convicted over the killing.} Johannesburg-based prosecutor Herman Broodryk confirmed to the ABC he would seek the extradition of former Jetstar air hostess Monique Neeteson-Lemkes, 38, who was the alleged mastermind behind […]