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  • Fears of violence after Gabon vote

    Counting is under way in Gabon's presidential elections amid fears that a win by Ali Bongo, the son of the late president who ruled the oil rich African nation for decades, would lead to violence. Election results are not expected until Wednesday but Bongo appeared to be in the lead going into Sunday's vote and there were already accusations of vote.. More

  • Deaths in Cameroon train crash

    At least seven people have been killed and more than 270 injured in a train accident in the West African nation of Cameroon, state radio has reported. The train derailed just outside the capital Yaounde on Saturday. Issa Tchiroma Bakary, Cameroon's communications minister, said the death toll could change as some of the carriages had ended up in ravines.. More

  • Blast kills Pakistani police

    At least 12 people have been killed after a bomber blew himself up at a police station in Pakistan's northwest, officials say. The attack in Mingora, the main city in the Swat valley district, on Sunday was largest since the military declared success in an offensive aimed at pushing Taliban fighters from the area. "The policemen were being given.. More

  • Ethiopian troops enter Somalia, breaking deal

    Ethiopian troops in heavily armored vehicles crossed into central Somalia on Saturday and took control of Baladwayne town, breaking international deal, witnesses said. The overnight incursion into the strategically important town of Belet Weyne is the first time Ethiopian troops have seized control of a town in war-ravaged Somalia since leaving the.. More

  • Iranians mourn Iraqi Shia leader

    Crowds of Iranians have gathered in front of the Iraqi embassy in the Iranian capital to mourn the death of the Iraqi Shia leader who has succumbed to lung cancer. Abdel Aziz al-Hakim, leader of a Shia party in Iraq died on Wednesday in a Tehran hospital after battling the illness for 28 months. Al-Hakim's body was expected to be taken from the Iraqi.. More

  • August tied for deadliest month in Afghanistan

    NATO says a U.S. soldier has been killed in an attack involving a roadside bomb and gunfire. The death brings to 44 the number of U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan this month, tying August with July for the deadliest month of the eight-year war. NATO says the American died in southern Afghanistan on Thursday when the troop's patrol responded to the.. More

  • Second blast strikes Kandahar

    Asecond explosion has hit the city of Kandahar in southern Afghanistan, a day after more than 40 people there were killed in a truck bombing. Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr, reporting from the city, said Wednesday's blast was thought to have been caused by a rocket. She said the explosion occurred at about 10.30pm, hitting a square in the centre of the.. More

  • Iraq Shia leader dies

    Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, leader of one of the most powerful Shia parties in Iraq, has died, his aides say. Hakim had been suffering from cancer and had been receiving treatment in hospital in the Iranian capital Tehran. He led the SIIC from 2003 when his brother was killed after his return to Iraq following the US-led invasion. PHOTO CAPTION Abdul Aziz.. More

  • Dozens killed in Kandahar bombing

    A car bomb explosion in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar has left about 40 people dead. Police said the blast on Tuesday was a suicide attack near a wedding hall in a residential area of the city. Two hospitals said 90 people were injured in the blast. Al Jazeera's James Bays, reporting from the capital, Kabul, said all the dead were civilians.. More

  • US to probe CIA torture cases, special prosecutor named

    U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday named a special prosecutor to probe CIA prisoner abuse cases. Holder's decision came after the Justice Department's ethics watchdog recommended considering prosecution of Central Intelligence Agency employees or contractors for torture techniques in Iraq and Afghanistan. Holder said in a statement, "in.. More

  • Hunger warning for south Sudan

    The United Nations has warned that parts of southern Sudan could be in pre-famine conditions, with 1.3 million people across the country in need of food aid. The number of people needing assistance has surged since the beginning of the year due to inter-tribal conflict, poor rains and the high cost of food commodities in the region. "On top of.. More

  • Israel to build new settlement colonies in East Jerusalem

    A plan for a new illegal Jewish settlement in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem has been submitted for approval to city hall, a newspaper reported on Sunday. The plan calls for construction of about 104 units in the Ras Al-Amud neighborhood, currently home to some 14,000 Palestinians, the Haaretz newspaper reported, quoting sources at the occupied Jerusalem.. More

  • 'Zaidi fighters die' in Yemen clash

    More than 100 Zaidi Shia fighters have been killed by government forces in the north of Yemen after fierce battles to recapture a town, government officials have said. The deaths in fighting in Amran province in the northern mountains on Sunday included two commanders, they reported. "There has been a discovery of 100 bodies belonging to Houthi.. More

  • US report details detainee abuses

    US interrogators carried out mock executions and threatened a suspected 'al-Qaeda commander' with a gun and an electric drill, an internal report by America's spy agency has revealed. The CIA document, reported by two leading US newspapers on Saturday, provides details of abuses inside the agency's secret prisons. The Central Intelligence Agency inspector-g.. More

  • Niger Delta group ends ceasefire

    Nigeria's largest militant group has said it is to end its ceasefire and resume attacks against Africa's biggest oil and gas industry. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Mend) said the move to end the truce on September 15 was in response to the government's 60-day amnesty program. The government has invited fighter groups to hand.. More