Libyan PM freed after being seized over U.S. raid: officials

(Reuters) - Former rebel gunmen freed Libya's prime minister on Thursday after holding him for several hours in reprisal for the capture by U.S. forces…

Libyan prime minister kidnapped at gunpoint from hotel

Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan has been kidnapped by gunmen before dawn from a Tripoli hotel.

Many killed as Boko Haram opens fire on sleeping students

on September 29, 2013   /   in News 12:33 pm  

KANO  (AFP) – Boko Haram gunmen on Sunday stormed a college dormitory in Nigeria’s conflict-scarred northeast, firing on students as they slept, the…

Report: Israeli agents backing Kenyan troops in bid to end Nairobi mall siege

1,500 South Africa police have criminal records

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JOHANNESBURG, Gauteng…

More than 1,000 inmates escape from Libyan prison

Amid protests across the country over killing of an activist, PM blames jailbreak near Benghazi on locals

• Associated Press
• guardian.co.uk, Sunday 28…

Nigeria school massacre: 41 children killed, some burned alive

Published time: July 06, 2013 14:32

41 students and an English teacher have been killed in an Islamic extremist attack on a boarding school in northeast Nigeria. Some students were burned alive, according to survivors being treated for burn and gunshot wounds.

"We received 42 dead bodies of students and other…

French nationals fighting alongside Islamists in major conflict zones

Is Obama's brother a wife beater? President's sibling is accused of attacking two of his TWELVE wives and seducing a schoolgirl. Now he's using his White House links to launch his own bid for power

• President Obama's half-brother accused of being wife beater
• Roy Abong'o Malik Obama standing for election in Kenya
  
  
• Dismisses wife-beating allegations as being ‘a matter of interpretation’

By …

‘No shot, no ticket’: Ethiopians decry Israeli birth control policies

Published time: February 27, 2013 16:09

Ethiopian women have told RT that Israeli medics forced them to take the controversial Depo-Provera birth control vaccination without explaining the severe side effects of the drug, which can leave a woman unable to become pregnant for up to two years.

The birth control…

NATO's Pandora’s Box: W. Africa flooded with Libyan weapons

Published time: February 26, 2013 06:50

An estimated 10,000 to 20,000 Libyan firearms have been trafficked to other African nations, the UN reported. Ousted ruler Muammar Gaddafi's uncontrolled arsenal is reportedly a major source of instability in Mali, and the entire region.…

Military forces from Italy, Qatar in Libyan port ahead of revolution anniversary – RT sources

Published: 13 February, 2013, 18:22

Arms and troops from Italy and Qatar are arriving at Tripoli's Al Njela seaport to help the Libyan leadership, should violence erupt on the second anniversary of the revolution that ousted Muammar Gaddafi, according to RT…

Sudanese pyramid sprawl: 35 ancient pyramids discovered in Sedeinga

Published: 08 February, 2013, 12:57

Archaeologists have reportedly discovered 35 small ancient pyramids in Sudan at a site known as Sedeinga dating back around 2,000 years. Scientists are stunned over how densely the pyramids appeared to be heaped together.…

Ron Paul calls US involvement in Mali 'undeclared war'

Published: 29 January, 2013, 22:58

Ron Paul said US assistance to the French intervention in Mali is a sign that the Obama administration is creeping into another war – especially since questions about the extent of US involvement remain largely unanswered.

The recently…

Cameron to visit Algeria after offering more than 330 British troops to take on Islamist terror groups in neighbouring in Mali

• Up to 40 UK personnel to train Malian army and another 200 to prepare combat troops from neighbouring countries
  
  
• At least 90 more personnel providing crews for Sentinel spy plane and C17 transport…

US Ambassador’s Killing Had Nothing to Do With Al Qaeda, Islamist Blowback or Anti-Islamic Video

By Mark Robertson and Finian Cunningham

Global Research, September 20, 2012

Region: Middle East & North Africa

Theme: US NATO War Agenda

In-depth Report: NATO'S WAR ON LIBYA

The NATO powers and the bureaucrats they installed in Libya want you to think that all 5.6…

The New Black Panther Party opened its radio program last week with audio calling for the murder of all white people in South Africa,

In the organization’s radio opening for August 13, they play a shocking segment from Khalid Muhammad, a former spokesman for Louis Farrakhan’s Channel. In it, he…

Deadly Ebola virus claims more lives in Uganda   

Published: 01 August, 2012, 18:23

Ugandan authorities are struggling to contain an outbreak of Ebola in the western provinces of the country. Suspected cases are refusing treatment, fearing they may get infected with the virus in hospital if they don’t already have…

Kenyans WERE tortured under our rule, says UK: Lawyer's admission as three Mau Mau survivors tell of horror

• Thought to be first public declaration by Government that brutality occurred
• Admission comes as three elderly Kenyans seeks damages in the High Court…