AL-QAIDA IN YEMEN APOLOGIZES FOR HOSPITAL ATTACK
By MAAMOUN YOUSSEF FILE – This Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013 file photo provided by Yemen’s Defense Ministry shows paramedics loading a victim into an ambulance after an explosion at the…
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3 US MILITARY AIRCRAFT HIT IN S. SUDAN, 4 WOUNDED
By JASON STRAZIUSO FILE – In this June 7, 2007 file photo, a CV-22 Osprey aircraft stationed at Kirtland Air Force Base kicks up a cloud of dust as it…
S. SUDAN GOV’T LOSES CONTROL OF PROVINCE CAPITAL
By CHARLTON DOKI and TOM ODULA Choul Laam, the chief of staff for the secretary general for the ruling Sudanese Peoples Liberation Movement speaks during a press conference in Nairobi,…
UN: $12.9 BILLION AID NEEDED IN 2014
\By JOHN HEILPRIN A Syrian refugee woman fetches water at a refugee camp in the eastern Lebanese border town of Arsal, Lebanon, Sunday, Dec. 15, 2013. Tens of thousands of…
SOUTH SUDAN PRESIDENT SAYS COUP HAS BEEN REPULSED
By CHARLTON DOKI and RODNEY MUHUMUZA President of South Sudan Salva Kiir wearing army fatigues speaks in this still taken from a televised address in Juba South Sudan Monday Dec.…
FRANCE PUSHING EU TO FUND MILITARY INTERVENTIONS
By SYLVIE CORBET Former FARCA (Central African Republic Forces) soldiers linked to Anti-Balaka Christian militiamen who have set up camp in a school in the Boeing neighborhood of the Central…
‘GO WELL MADIBA’ – MANDELA FUNERAL QUOTES
Nelson Mandela’s granddaughter Nandi Mandela speaks during the funeral service for former South African President Nelson Mandela in Qunu, South Africa, Sunday, Dec. 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Odd Andersen, Pool) South…
DESMOND TUTU HOME ROBBED; WAS AT MANDELA MEMORIAL
By RAY FAURE Retired Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu speaks at the memorial service for former South African president Nelson Mandela at the FNB Stadium in Soweto near Johannesburg, Tuesday, Dec.…