TERROR LEADER’S GROUP GROWS, VOWS TO AID EGYPTIANS
By AHMED MOHAMED FILE – In this undated file image taken from video provided by the SITE Intel Group and made available Thursday Jan. 17, 2013, purports to show terrorist…
West Africa
LIBERIA MARKS ANNIVERSARY OF TAYLOR’S DEPARTURE
By JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH FILE – In this Aug. 11, 2003 file photo, Liberian ex-President Charles Taylor, carrying his staff, leaves with wife Jewel Howard-Taylor after officially handing over the power…
TOGO ARRESTS LARGE-SCALE IVORY TRAFFICKER
By ERICK KAGLAN In this photo taken Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013, ivory carvings and elephant tusks seized from the shop of alleged ivory trafficker Emile N’Bouke are displayed at the…
MALI PRESIDENTIAL RACE GOES TO RUNOFF
By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI Supporters of Ibrahim Boubacar Keita briefly celebrate as they watch the televised reading of election results, at Keita campaign headquarters in Bamako, Mali, Friday, Aug. 2, 2013.…
REPORT: WORLD TURMOIL MEANS FEWER HAVE FREE PRESS
By PETER JAMES SPIELMANN FILE – In this July 17, 1997 file photo, David Hoffman sits inside his self-built newsstand on Lexington Avenue in New York. According to democracy watchdog…
ADICHIE FOC– USES ON NIGERIA’S PRESENT FOR NEW NOVEL
By JON GAMBRELL In this photo taken, Saturday, April. 27, 2013, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, speaks to Associated press during an interview in Lagos, Nigeria. Modern life in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest…
FRENCH FAMILY OF 7 TAKEN HOSTAGE IN CAMEROON FREED
By DIVINE NTARYIKE and LORI HINNANT French President Francois Hollande speaks at the Elysee Palace in Paris , Friday, April 19, 2013. A French family with four young children kidnapped…
AL-QAIDA LEADER URGES MUSLIMS TO UNITE IN STRUGGLE
By MAAMOUN YOUSSEF FILE — In this undated file frame grab from video provided by IntelCenter, an American private terrorist threat analysis company, shows Al-Qaida’s leader Ayman Al-Zawahri in a…