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Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir. Ten migrants have died among some 300 abandoned by smugglers in the scorching Sudanese-Libyan desert, with the others in poor condition, Sudanese officials said Wednesday. PHOTO/AFP  Ten migrants have died among some 300 abandoned by smugglers in the scorching Sudanese-Libyan desert, with the others in poor condition, Sudanese officials said Wednesday....

By Nicole Gaouette Secretary of State John Kerry starts a five-day visit to Africa today with a focus on security that includes reining in the conflict in South Sudan. Kerry at a meeting today in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, agreed with East African foreign ministers that a peacekeeping force must be swiftly deployed in South Sudan. “A legitimate force,...

By ERIC SCHMITT WASHINGTON — Al Qaeda’s affiliates in Somalia, Syria, Yemen and West Africa are exerting increasing influence in their regions, posing new challenges for American counterterrorism officials even after a decade of allied attacks that have weakened the group’s leadership in Pakistan, according to a State Department report released Wednesday. The findings in the...

By Raven Rakia Eastleigh neighborhood in Nairobi Meet Ifran. She is a Somali refugee living in the Eastleigh neighborhood in Nairobi, Kenya. She sells tea out of a cart to survive and usually makes about 150 Kenyan shillings per day (Less than $2). Last November, her life changed when police started bullying her into bribes,...

Officials in Cairo hope that the satellite’s findings will strengthen their position in the debate over Ethiopia’s projected hydroelectric dam          Water gushes out from pipes by the construction of Ethiopia’s Great Renaissance Dam in Guba Woreda, some 40 km (25 miles) from Ethiopia’s border with Sudan, June 28, 2013. (Photo: Reuters)...

Thousands of foreigners, mostly Somalis in Nairobi’s Easteigh, have been on the chase since last month’s attacks. It’s Saturday night, few minutes past 9pm, at Easteigh’s 7th Street in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. The street should be teeming with crowds – shops should be doing brisk business, tea stalls should be crowded with customers and...

Robots performing various maid functions are shown in this combo image. Robots are being considered as an alternative to human servants as Saudi families struggle to find foreign domestic helpers nowadays. JEDDAH: IBRAHIM NAFFEE Several Japanese and Chinese technology companies have proposed exporting robots that can do house chores to cater for the growing number...

A UPDF officer formerly with the African Union mission in Somalia (Amisom) returns to court next week facing the possibility of a death sentence, after a key witness pinned him in the court martial on April 24. Lt Col David K. Matua, who was commanding officer of armoured elements and operations and training officer (OPTO),...