Tag: Africa

An Air-France plane taxis past a refugee camp outside the airport in Bangui, Central African Republic, Tuesday Jan. 28, 2014. Christian refugees are living in makeshift shelters near the airport in Bangui, as they try to escape from the deepening divisions between the country's Muslim minority and Christian majority. Christian refugees who have fled sectarian violence complain about the lack of aid reaching their impoverished tent city. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

UN Security Council authorizes EU troops to CAR

Alexandra Olson · January 29, 2014 1:33 am

UN official: Some S Sudanese too afraid to go home

UN official: Some S Sudanese too afraid to go home

Washington Examiner · January 28, 2014 4:05 pm

An anti-Balaka Christian militiaman runs across a major avenue heading to the predominantly Muslim Miskin neighborhood downtown Bangui, Central African Republic, Friday Jan. 24, 2014. Moments later, heavy gunfire erupted between anti-Balakas and Seleka Muslim militias, prompting the intervention of Rwandan and French forces who also used fire power. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Fighting erupts in C. African Republic capital

JEROME DELAYKRISTA LARSON · January 24, 2014 7:21 pm

UN: Thousands of Nigerians flee fighting in north

UN: Thousands of Nigerians flee fighting in north

Carley Petesch · January 24, 2014 6:08 pm

French military: 11 jihadists killed in north Mali

French military: 11 jihadists killed in north Mali

Washington Examiner · January 24, 2014 5:12 pm

Central African Republic's interim President Catherine Samba-Panza sits in the parliament building before taking the oath of office in Bangui, Central African Republic, Thursday Jan. 23, 2014. Samba-Panza pledged to bring peace and unity to the anarchic country as looters in the streets pillaged Muslim neighborhoods in the latest sign of escalating sectarian tensions.(AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

C. African Republic leader sworn in amid looting

HIPPOLYTE MARBOUAKRISTA LARSON · January 23, 2014 6:30 pm

Morocco amends controversial rape law

Morocco amends controversial rape law

Washington Examiner · January 22, 2014 10:37 pm

Egypt says not invited to US Africa summit

Egypt says not invited to US Africa summit

Washington Examiner · January 22, 2014 6:33 pm

Mali lawmakers choose leader from ruling party

Mali lawmakers choose leader from ruling party

Washington Examiner · January 22, 2014 1:06 pm

EDS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENTS In this Sunday, Jan. 19, 2014 photo, a young man adds kindling to the burning body of a lynched Muslim man, in Bangui, Central African Republic. Residents of the Sango neighborhood, who said they were acting in revenge for the lynching of a taxi driver from Sango a day earlier, killed two Muslim men on Sunday, burning their bodies at a central roundabout. Two other Muslim passerbys escaped to the protection of French and African peacekeeping forces. (AP Photo/Herve Serefio)

C. African Republic chooses mayor as new leader

HIPPOLYTE MARBOUAKRISTA LARSON · January 21, 2014 2:21 am

Mali: 5 peacekeepers injured by land mine

Mali: 5 peacekeepers injured by land mine

Washington Examiner · January 20, 2014 9:47 pm

A South Sudanese government soldier carries an ammunition box from storage at the airport in Bor, Jonglei State, South Sudan Sunday, Jan. 19, 2014. Leaders for warring sides in South Sudan's monthlong internal conflict say they are close to signing a cease-fire and the South Sudanese military spokesman said that army forces had retaken the key city of Bor Saturday, defeating 15,000 rebels. (AP Photo/Mackenzie Knowles-Coursin)

In S. Sudan, rebel-held town of Bor destroyed

Ilya Gridneff · January 20, 2014 6:09 pm