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Ethiopian Airlines has suspended the crew of a flight on which both pilots reportedly fell asleep and missed their landing window in Addis Ababa.The plane eventually landed safely, but experts said the incident raised questions about pilot fatigue on t...

THE HAGUE— Felicien Kabuga, an alleged financier of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, will go on trial in The Hague on Sept 29 facing charges of genocide and crimes against humanity, a UN judge announced Thursday.Once one of Rwanda’s richest men, Kabuga all...

NEW YORK— A US judge sentenced an extradited Liberian man to 63 months in prison for conspiring to traffic millions of dollars’ worth of horns and ivory from endangered rhinoceros and elephants, federal prosecutors said.Moazu Kromah, a Uganda resident,...

Supporters of free speech in Nigeria are expressing concern after a federal court ruled this week that a singer appealing his death sentence for blasphemy must have his case retried in a Shariah court.Yahaya Aminu Sharif's lawyer argued his case should...

Caretaker Prime Minister, Najib Mikati, on Thursday met at the Grand Serail with a delegation of the World Bank, chaired by the WB’s Regional Director of the Mashreq Department Jean-Christophe Carret, in the presence of Caretaker Minister of Energy and...

Kenya’s tightly contested presidential election led to growing tensions between supporters of the two main candidates William Ruto the president-elect and Raila Odinga. Experts say claims of election fraud are likely to see the results challenged in co...

BAMAKO, MALI — The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Mali, MINUSMA, is to resume contingent rotations starting Monday under fresh approval procedures, the Malian foreign minister and a U.N. spokeswoman have said."MINUSMA agreed to the new procedures and com...

The EU has allocated an additional €4 million to Uganda, to help the country address the influx of new refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and address the food insecurity in Uganda's Karamoja region, on the border with Kenya.Commis...