Willem Ratte It has been eighteen days since Willem Ratte, Boer Republican, and ten others were imprisoned by the South African government without substantial evidence for their imprisonment. This questionable imprisonment has together with the continual victimization of Boers by the South African Government led Ratte on a hunger strike. The Boers is a minority in South Africa seeking their independence... 

Stains of blood cover a hallway inside the Hotel Muna in Mogadishu A medical official says at least eight people have died in fighting in Somalia’s capital. Ali Muse, the head of the city’s ambulance service, said at least another 18 people were wounded. The fighting took place Sunday between pro-government forces and Islamist militants. Somalia has seen a spike in fighting over the last... 

South African right-winger and former Rhodesian SAS soldier Willem Ratte and 10 others were arrested for possession of illegal firearms, Mpumalanga police say. Police arrested the men on a farm in Balmoral near Witbank on Thursday afternoon. “We don’t have much information at this stage. The 11 were arrested for being in possession of unlawful firearms and ammunition,” police spokesman... 

Pirates seize cargo ship off Somalia’s coast with 12 Ukrainians onboard. The European Union’s anti-piracy force says Somali pirates have hijacked a cargo ship carrying steel bars and wires off the coast of Somalia. The force said in a statement that the MV Lugela sent a distress call to its Greek operator Saturday when pirates attacked it about 900 nautical miles east of the Somali pirate... 

A fan of opposition leader Martin Ziguele rides a bicycle in the streets of Bangui in 2005. The Central African Republic’s government accused main opposition leader and former prime minister Ziguele of heading a rebel movement, in a statement broadcast Friday. The Central African Republic’s government accused main opposition leader and former prime minister Martin Ziguele of heading a... 

Somalia's Al-Shabaab militia. Al-Shabaab and Hizbul Islam extremists on Sunday, 19 September 2010, forcibly looted two independent radio stations, HornAfrik and Global Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), in Mogadishu. The two Radio stations are an independent radio and televisions based in the capital. Some of HornAfrik staff says armed militia from the Al-Shabaab broke into the premises of the radio... 

A suicide bomber blew himself up at the gates of the presidential palace in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Monday, wounding two soldiers in the latest attack on the Somali capital by al Qaeda-linked rebels, police said. The bomber, armed with an automatic rifle, tried to jump onto an armored vehicle in a convoy of African Union peacekeepers driving into the palace grounds, police spokesman Osman... 

South Sudanese celebrate independence-referendum possibility. Official: Southern Sudan parliament may vote to secede if January independence vote is delayed. Southern Sudan’s parliament may vote to secede from the Khartoum-based north if an independence reference scheduled for January is delayed, a former top Southern Sudan official said Thursday. The oil-rich region can take such action under... 

In this Oct. 6, 2009 file photo, a Rwandan Hutu rebel gropes a local woman as he passes her on a crowded mountain path near the village of Kimua in eastern Congo. Medical agency: Gunmen fire on plane with international aid workers landing in east Congo. Gunmen in eastern Congo fired Wednesday on a private plane carrying international aid workers who escaped into the forest and were later rescued, aid... 

Former President of Madagascar Marc Ravalomanana who lives in exile, Saturday (28/08/2010), was sentenced to hard labor for life for their part in the incident known as the murder of February 7, 2009. “Ravalomanana has sentence without his presence to forced labor for life for murder and additional murders,” said Hanitra Razafimanantsoa, lawyer president who imposed it, who is in exile... 

Queen Elizabeth National Park is one of Uganda's most popular safari destinations. Anthrax has killed at least 83 hippopotamuses in a popular Ugandan game park that saw a similar outbreak six years ago, an official said. Tom Okello, area conservation manager at Queen Elizabeth National Park in south-west Uganda, says 83 hippos are dead. The park, one of Uganda’s most popular safari destinations,... 

Robert Mugabe told EU and other diplomats to ‘go to Hell’ over their sanctions regime EU, German and US envoys to Zimbabwe have been berated by Harare for walking out of the funeral of President Robert Mugabe’s sister. The diplomats left the burial ceremony on Sunday after Mr Mugabe used the occasion to lay into the West. In his speech for his younger sister Sabina, who died at age... 

Two foreign nationals were raped in two separate incidents in the Eastern Cape, police said on Sunday. A 15-year-old German girl was raped, allegedly by two armed men who broke into a chalet she was sharing with her 14-year-old brother at a bed and breakfast facility in Addo, said Captain Ernest Sigobe. “The men allegedly gained entry by breaking the back window at 06:00 yesterday (Saturday).” The... 

A survivor sits near a relative who was killed in a bomb attack at an Ethiopian restaurant in Uganda's capital. Investigators found an unexploded suicide vest with ball bearings in a disco hall in Uganda’s capital, suggesting that militants planned another attack, officials said Tuesday. Four “foreign” suspects were arrested in connection with the find. The discovery of a suicide... 

Map locates Sange, Dem. Rep. Congo where a tanker carrying oil exploded. A tanker truck hauling fuel on a rural eastern Congo highway overturned, gushing oil and exploding in a massive fireball that killed about 220 bystanders, including many who had been watching the World Cup in flimsy roadside shacks, officials and witnesses said Saturday. The Red Cross said at least 61 children and 36 women were...