Topic: Africa
US President Barack Obama will Thursday welcome Liberian leader Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to Washington, the White House said in a statement.The visit by Africa's first female elected head of state will give Obama an "opportunity to discuss a range of bilateral and ...
Victims of the former brutal Somali regime appealed to the US Supreme Court Wednesday to allow them to take legal action against an ex-leader they accuse of torture.Three victims and the families of two others, also now living in the US, are ...
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's ailing president, in hospital overseas for the past two months, faced mounting pressure on Thursday to end a power vacuum that is increasingly worrying investors.Critics want President Umaru Yar'adua to formally hand over executive powers to his deputy ...
LAGOS (Reuters) - A leading Nigerian human rights lawyer has launched legal action to try to force President Umaru Yar'Adua to hand executive powers to his deputy while he is receiving medical treatment in Saudi Arabia.Femi Falana, who was a prominent pro-democracy ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. government will pay $1.26 million to five Muslim men detained for months without charges after the September 11 attacks who sued for unlawful imprisonment and abuse, their lawyers said on Tuesday.The men claimed they suffered inhumane ...
The article reports that Representative Donald Payne of New Jersey has almost put his live in danger when a mortar attacked while he was visiting Somalia. Payne was visiting Somalia to help end the conflict that has destabilized the government for years. ...
The article announces that U.S. President Barack Obama has reassured Americans that his administration is on top of the Somali piracy issue. President Barack Obama reassured the American people on April 13 that his administration was on top of the Somali piracy ...
In October 1958 the territory became known as the Sudanese Republic; on Nov. 24, 1958, it became an autonomous state within the French Community. In January 1959 Senegal and the Sudanese Republic joined to form the Mali Federation under the presidency of ...
Traveling through 7 African nations, Clinton always in shadow cast by US presidentsThey followed her every step of the way. From Kenya to Cape Verde, the personalities and policies of the last three American presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack ...
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Liberia on Thursday in a show of support for Africa's only female leader, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who has faced calls to quit after a probe into the country's civil war.Clinton arrived in Monrovia to ...
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