Ghana impounds ‘faulty condoms’
More than 110 million Chinese-made condoms are seized in Ghana after laboratory tests revealed they had holes and burst easily.
BBC News – Africa
South Sudan army ‘killed nurses’
Four nurses and a doctor were killed when South Sudan soldiers attacked a hospital in revenge for the killing of eight members of the security forces, the local MP tells the BBC.
BBC News – Africa
French Cameroon hostages freed
Seven members of a French family, including four children, abducted in northern Cameroon by suspected Nigerian Islamists are freed unharmed.
BBC News – Africa
New governor sets out to transform Nairobi
NAIROBI — In the three weeks since Nairobi’s first governor, Evans Kidero, took office, he has fired 11 people for delivering fictitious invoices for nonexistent goods, a practice he calls “supplying air.” This week alone, he has suspended [...]
Ali Kafi, former Algerian leader, dies at 84
Ali Kafi, who led Algeria for two years after the 1992 military coup that aimed to stop Islamists from winning a national election, died April 16 in Geneva. He was 84.
His death was announced by the Algerian state news agency. The cause was [...]
Kenyan runner tells of Boston escape
Kenya’s 2012 winner of the Boston Marathon Wesley Korir, who came 5th this year, tells the BBC of his fear after hearing of the deadly blasts.
BBC News – Africa
How S. Africa avoided ‘racial war’
Judge Albie Sachs was an once an anti-apartheid activist who lost an arm to a car bomb. He helped build the new South Africa.
CNN.com – Africa
Attack on Somali court complex leaves 16 dead
MOGADISHU, Somalia — A barrage of bullets and two car-bomb blasts rattled Mogadishu on Sunday when nine al-Shabab Islamist extremists stormed Somalia’s main court complex, officials said, in a two-hour attack that shows the country’s most [...]
