The European Union’s anti-piracy mission destroyed a pirate ship and a skiff in the Indian Ocean on Friday and took nearly a dozen suspected pirates into custody, the mission said.
Heavy rain, hilly terrain and inadequate equipment slowed efforts to recover hundreds of people feared killed by a massive landslide in eastern Uganda, officials said Thursday.
On certain nights in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, a turn of the radio dial can reveal Somali voices crackling over the radio waves.
Pirates have hijacked a tanker that sailed under a Saudi flag, authorities said Wednesday.
At least 106 bodies had been recovered Tuesday after massive landslides wiped out several villages around Mount Elgon on the Uganda-Kenya border, an army spokesman and local aid officials said.
The widow of former Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, whose assassination sparked the 1994 genocide, was arrested Tuesday in Paris on a Rwandan warrant, French and Rwandan officials said.
They are trained in sophisticated combat tactics and weaponry, crowd and mob control, counter-insurgency. They patrol the streets of the Liberian capital, expected to keep the peace after years of war.
Somalia’s main militant group has banned the United Nations food agency and ordered its aid workers to leave the impoverished country.
A Greek owned vessel that was hijacked months ago was released Sunday, naval officials said.
Twenty-six people, at least half of them children, were killed in a stampede near a mosque in Timbuktu, Mali, according to a journalist who witnessed the incident.
