The FBI thwarted an attempted terrorist bombing in Portland’s Pioneer Courthouse Square before the city’s annual tree-lighting Friday night, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Oregon.
A Corvallis man, thinking he was going to ignite a bomb, drove a...
Hundreds of thousands of condoms, mosquito nets and tuberculosis drugs worth $100,000 (£77,000) are alleged to have disappeared from a warehouse operated by the Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (Kemsa).
They are believed to have been stolen and resold on the...
South Sudan rivals have signed an agreement on the formation of a unified armed forces command, a key pillar of a peace agreement signed in 2018.
The deal was signed on Sunday in the capital, Juba, following mediation by neighboring...
More than 37,000 people have been forced from their homes in the Democratic Republic of Congo over the last four days of fighting, according to aid agencies.
Local media report that the national army has retaken some areas that had...
The amount of fuel import bills during the first nine months of the current Ethiopian fiscal year surpassed export earnings secured over the same period, it was learnt by The Reporter.
The cost of fuel import has been a major...
Rwanda and Uganda will lead East African Community’s growth next year, but the International Monetary Fund warns of tough times ahead.
The tough times are being projected as a result of the tightening of economic policies, especially by the US...
A man accused of murder in Somaliland and sentenced to death by firing squad has been set free. The victim was able to secure his freedom after his family reached an agreement to pay a compensation of 100 camels...
MORTARS thunder and donkeys bray as Major Anthony Lukwago Mbusi, a forward commander with African Union troops in Mogadishu, climbs through holes his men have made in the walls of abandoned houses along the front lines in the embattled...
JOHANNESBURG How do you create a radio network in the world’s most dangerous country, where war is raging, journalists are killed, and Islamic extremists have banned music, sports and women’s voices on the airwaves?
If you’re the organizers of Somalia’s...
(This story was first issued in January this year. We are repeating it because the pirate’s comments provide a useful insight into the motives of the pirates involved in the present stand-off in the Indian Ocean off Somalia)
GAROWE, Somalia,...
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