The Prime Minister of Sudan and Egypt have expressed optimism after talks in the Sudanese capital that halted negotiations with Ethiopia over the construction of a controversial giant dam on the Blue Nile would bear fruit. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, built about 15 km (9 miles) from Ethiopia’s border …
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Government troops are taking up positions outside a port in the far north of Mozambique, which was captured last week by Islamist extremists in the latest escalation of the uprising in the South African country. Hundreds of reinforcements have been positioned around the port in the city of Mocímboa da …
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At least nine people have been killed and more than a dozen injured in a gun and bomb attack by suspected al-Shabab fighters at an upmarket beachfront hotel in the Somali capital, officials and witnesses said. Security forces struggled to regain control of the Elite Hotel in the Lido beach …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – A Japanese bulk carrier cut off a coral reef off the Indian Ocean nation of Mauritius on July 25, spilled some 1,000 tons of steel oil and declared a state of “environmental distress”. A general view shows the bulk carrier MV Wakashio, which ran on a reef, …
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