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Nearly 500 animals killed for ivory tusks

Nicholas Edmondson Mar 19, 2012

George Clooney is not the only star arrested during political demonstrations

Ewan Palmer Mar 16, 2012

Hollywood star and fellow protestors taken into custody after three verbal warnings from police

Toyin Owoseje Mar 16, 2012

Campaign to bring Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony to justice moves up a gear.

Anissa Haddadi Mar 14, 2012

Failure to follow proper medical procedures more damaging than shortage of equipment or staff, says report.

Nicholas Edmondson Mar 14, 2012

Kony 2012 film by NGO Invisible Children has created a buzz and divided opinion on the internet.

Anissa Haddadi Mar 09, 2012

NGO Invisible Children's Kony 2012 campaign faces backlash amid accusations of misinformation and lack of transparency.

Anissa Haddadi Mar 09, 2012

Campaign takes internet by storm to raise awareness about Joseph Kony, Lord's Resistance Army leader, who has forced 66,000 children into becoming soldiers.

Anissa Haddadi Mar 07, 2012

Egyptian Bedoiun smugglers target growing number of African migrants crossing harsh desert terrain in bid to reach Israel.

Anissa Haddadi Feb 17, 2012

Osama Bin Laden wanted to marry American pop queen, according to al-Qaida leader's ex-mistress.

Staff Reporter Feb 16, 2012

Moscow and Beijing arms race to Sudan leading to human rights violations in Darfur, Amnesty International says.

Anissa Haddadi Feb 09, 2012

The attack was launched by the Sudan People's Liberation Army against a road-building site in South Kordofan, where the Chinese workers were employed.

Geetha Pillai Jan 29, 2012

Hamas leader are expected to visit Iran next week, Fars news agency reported.

Gianluca Mezzofiore Jan 26, 2012

Global companies urged to emphasise human rights in face of growing child exploitation figures.

Nicholas Edmondson Jan 06, 2012

Syrian opposition members are urging the Arab League for the exclusion of General Mustafa al-Dabi as head of the delegation currently in the country to ensure President Assad's pledges to end the crackdown.

Gianluca Mezzofiore Dec 29, 2011

Arab League observers just yards from fatal shooting outside mosque as Syria death toll rises another 13.

Gianluca Mezzofiore Dec 29, 2011

The Arab League on Wednesday chose a Sudanese former general to lead the body's monitoring group to Syria.

Anissa Haddadi Dec 22, 2011

Sudanese stranded in their tens of thousands in makeshift refugee camps need help to get home, says Amnesty.

Nicholas Edmondson Dec 21, 2011

Two wives of Osama bin Laden, who have been held in Pakistan following the raid in May that killed the former head of al Qaeda, are set to return to their homeland of Saudi Arabia.

Anissa Haddadi Dec 13, 2011

Hamas is making contingency plans for the potential fall of the Syrian regime, Reuters reported Sunday.

Anissa Haddadi Dec 05, 2011

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Aditya Rangroo Dec 04, 2011

Seven people accused of belonging to a powerful rebel group in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region have been sentenced to death by a Sudanese court, state media said.

Anissa Haddadi Nov 30, 2011

With neighbours including Egypt and Libya, and after years of tensions and violent clashes with the newly separated South, Sudan finds itself in the middle of a region that is rapidly changing, but President al-Bashir dismissed speculation of an Arab Spring in the country.

Anissa Haddadi Nov 25, 2011

Maltreatment of African workers in Arab nations has been highlighted by reports that migrants suffered human rights violations during the Libyan conflict.

Anissa Haddadi Nov 18, 2011

Israel has offered to help Kenya secure its borders in a bid to fight off the Somali Islamist group al-Shabab, which has caused havoc in the region, the Kenyan Prime Minister's office says.

Anissa Haddadi Nov 15, 2011

A UN peacekeeper has been killed in Sudan's Southern Darfur and two other have been injured near the capital of South Darfur state, the United Nations said in a statement. It came less than one month after three peacekeepers were killed in an ambush in North Darfur.

Gianluca Mezzofiore Nov 07, 2011

Venezuelan-born militant Ilich Ramirez Sanchez - dubbed "Carlos the Jackal"- will go on trial in Paris on Monday charged with terrorism. The self-styled Cold War revolutionary is accused of terrorist bombings in France in 1982 and 1983 that killed 11 and injured more than 100 people.

Gianluca Mezzofiore Nov 07, 2011

Libyan fighters have overrun the last positions of the Gaddafi loyalists holding out in the city of Sirte, so with the colonel's birthplace now controlled by the NTC, can the transitional government finally say that Libya is liberated?

Oct 20, 2011

Poor farmers worldwide are being displaced and left destitute by land takeovers, a study by Oxfam warns.

Sep 22, 2011

A team of British doctors have successfully separated twin girls born joined at the head, in one of the most intricate medical techniques ever performed in the the UK.

Sep 19, 2011