All Africa
Interview: South Africa's 'candidate of conscience' speaks on eve of electionsMamphela Ramphele talks with the Monitor about a freedom struggle interrupted, distortions of history by the African National Congress, the upstart candidacy of Julius Malema, and why an authentic 'revolution of the spirit' is needed.
As Muslims flee Central African Republic fury, fears of radicalizationThousands are threatened as 海角大神-dominated militias take retribution for聽atrocities blamed on a Muslim-dominated former government. Many worry the mass displacement will further destabilize CAR.
In Central African Republic, a town embodies the nation's conflict海角大神s and Muslims used to mix freely in the town of Boda. But both communities are now under attack, and the devastation here speaks to the toll a violent year has taken on the nation.
With violence at new heights, Nigerians weary of military's claims of successThe military retracted its claim earlier this week that it had freed most of the girls kidnapped by militants, feeding deepening public dismay in a week that saw numerous attacks.
From a forgotten photo archive, Rwanda's orphans reclaim their historyIn the aftermath of the 1994 genocide, an aid group compiled photos of 8,000 orphans in order to trace their relatives. Twenty years on, a photographer went looking for the grown-up orphans.聽
Boko Haram rears its head in Nigeria's capital with deadly bomb blastsThe strike on a busy bus terminal, which left more than 70 people dead, flies in the face of the government's assertions that it has contained the insurgency.
FocusAmid growing prosperity, Rwanda's post-genocide generation comes of ageOver half of Rwanda's 11 million people were born since 1994, the year of the genocide. What matters to them is to change the image that comes to mind when one hears the word 'Rwanda.'- FocusRwanda, the world's swiftest genocideInitially reported to be spontaneous, 1994's genocide was long planned, and left more than 800,000 people dead, including about 70 percent of all the Tutsis in Rwanda.
Torn by war and potential famine, South Sudan needs US humanitarian surgeFighting and displacement has left millions at risk of famine, necessitating a robust US humanitarian and diplomatic response, as the peace process inches along in Ethiopia.
The mad, mad debate over Rwanda -- 20 years after the genocideRwanda is the best success story of state-building in Africa in the last 20 years, despite its autocratic habits.聽
Nigeria becomes Africa's No. 1 economy, overtaking South AfricaNigeria's GDP said to be more than $500 billion, nearly double the previous estimate. Its infrastructure and energy capability however lags far behind South Africa's.
As Pistorius takes the stand, a divided South Africa asks: Is he one of us?The 'Blade Runner' today defended himself for the first time. His murder trial has struck deeper social chords here than might have been expected.
Nigerian forces killed hundreds of unarmed in Giwa Barracks incident: AmnestyWith intensified struggle between Boko Haram and Nigerian military, should a conversation begin about African multinational force intervention?
20 years after horrors, Rwanda claims rebirth and renewalApril 7 marks the anniversary of a genocide that killed 800,000 people in three months. For many Rwandans now, 'the people who killed, today they can be friends, they are people we do business with.'
Assassination of cleric 'Makaburi' puts Kenya on edgeAbubaker Shariff Ahmed was well known as a radical cleric. His shooting comes amid heavy government crackdown on Muslims and ethnic Somalis.
In South Sudan, rebel chief Machar aims to seize last operating oil fieldIn an interview deep in rebel-held territory, Riek Machar says he is massing forces to capture and control Paloch oil installations and bring down his rival, President Salva Kiir.
With one eye on Russia, Europe sends troops to shore up CARAs it mulls how to deal with Russia's intervention in Ukraine, the EU announced it is sending 1,000 troops to Central African Republic for the first time.
Janjaweed in Darfur burn, loot refugee camp next to UN peacekeeper compoundImages from Satellite Sentinel Project confirm torching by armed militia of refuge for 3,000 displaced persons. Eyewitnesses describe fatality, injuries, kidnapping and attendant mayhem.- Al Shabab leader hits popular chord in call to oust Kenyans, EthiopiansWith Kenya's unilateral decision to enter and create a new buffer state inside Somalia, Ahmed Abdi Godane's urging this week to kick foreigners out has an audience, and even some logic.聽
Boko Haram attacks bring thickening cloud of mystery and trouble in NigeriaWildly conflicting accounts of a prison attack have exposed a chasm between official portrayal of an increasingly deadly insurgency, and story lines from witnesses, rights groups, and rumors.