{A military official says an army major has been shot and killed by a colleague in a remote area of Burundi.} Army spokesman Col. Gaspard Baratuza says in a statement that the alleged killer of Maj. Dieudonne Karashira has been arrested and is under interrogation. He has no information on the possible motive behind the […]

{Burundi’s environment minister was shot to death while en route home from a New Year’s celebration early Sunday morning, an act that could exacerbate the country’s nearly two-year political crisis.} Emmanuel Niyonkuru, 54, the minister for water, environment and planning, was killed around 12:45 a.m. while returning to his home in the Rohero section of […]

{WASHINGTON — The Islamic State, though driven from its coastal stronghold in Surt this week, still has several hundred fighters who have dispersed across Libya and pose a threat to the country, its neighbors and, potentially, Europe, according to American officials and the Pentagon’s Africa Command.} The government’s top counterterrorism official, Nicholas J. Rasmussen, said […]

{Scientists on Friday debunked a widely circulated news media report suggesting that recent record-high global temperatures were unrelated to climate change.} The report, which first appeared in the British tabloid The Daily Mail and was summarized in Breitbart News, the right-wing opinion and news site, cited incomplete data and drew incorrect conclusions, the scientists said. […]

{GIZA, Egypt — In a dank stable in the shadow of the Pyramids, a stallion lay on the ground, his broken leg at an odd angle despite the cast wrapped around it.} The owner, Farag Abu Ghoneim, hovered nearby as the animal was tended by an Australian nurse known here for her horse sense — […]

{PARIS — A former vice president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Jean-Pierre Bemba, was sentenced on Tuesday to 18 years in prison for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed by militiamen under his command during a four-month rampage of looting, rape and murder in the Central African Republic.} The sentence, handed down by […]

{President Denis Sassou-Nguesso’s new term in office, a continuation of his decades in power after a murky re-election, has gotten off to a rocky start since violence in the Republic of Congo has left his political opponents fearing for their lives.} On April 4, the day that final election results were released, shooting broke out […]

{KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo — Rebels in a northeastern area of the Democratic Republic of Congo killed six civilians and kidnapped 14 others, a local activist group said on Saturday, the latest attack in a region the United Nations says is facing deteriorating security.} The group, the Center of Study for the Promotion of […]

{ARUSHA, Tanzania This town, near the edge of the Great Rift Valley, has long been a jumping off point for safaris. But intermingled with the zoom-lens-wielding tourists and camouflage-green safari trucks has been another common sight: buttoned-up legal staff members drawn from all over the world.} They have long converged here in a conference-center-turned-fortress in […]