Month: May 2014
Libya confirms businessman as new premier after chaotic vote
After a chaotic day that saw Libya pick a new prime minister only for the vote be declared…
USAfrica: On Chibok Girls kidnap, terrorism and Boko Haram crises, President Jonathan should launch ‘Operation Iron Fist’, not this committee. By Chido Nwangwu
On Chibok Girls kidnap, terrorism and Boko Haram crises, President Jonathan should launch ‘Operation Iron Fist’, not this…
KENYA: EXPLOSIONS in Nairobi and Mombasa; fatalities
Special to USAfricaonline.com, CLASSmagazine, and USAfrica multimedia networks, Houston. Follow Twitter.com/Chido247, Facebook.com/USAfricaChido An explosion ripped through a passenger bus in the Kenyan capital Nairobi on…
Campaign to find missing schoolgirls
International pressure on Nigeria mounted Saturday with protesters taking to the streets around the world to demand the…
Explosions reported in Kenya; at least 3 dead
At least three people were killed and scores injured in a blast in downtown Mombasa on Saturday, the…
10 people are killed in Somali roadside bombing
A roadside bomb in Mogadishu killed a former regional government administrator and nine other people on Saturday, according…
Kerry: South Sudan President to meet rebel leader
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said South Sudan President Salva Kiir will meet rebel leader Riek Machar…
223 Nigerian girls still missing
Nigerian authorities specified a total of 276 schoolgirls were taken last month by militants from a boarding school,…
Attacks in Egypt’s Sinai region kill 5, wound others
A soldier was killed Friday in a suicide blast at an army checkpoint in Egypt's Sinai region, state…
‘We thought they were soldiers’
One victim who escaped the mass school abduction tells how the girls were tricked into boarding a truck,…
Nine Libyan soldiers killed in clash with militants
At least nine Libyan soldiers were killed in fighting between government forces and Islamist militants in Benghazi on…
Libya’s 2012 terror attack still controversial
Republicans call it a government cover-up similar to what got Richard Nixon impeached. Democrats call it a right-wing…