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BAIDOA, Somalia (AP) — Somali police investigating a car bomb assassination attempt on the president arrested three suspected members of a fundamentalist Islamic group and recovered explosives Thursday, an official said. Baidoa Governor Ahmed Madey Issaq told the Associated Press police in three armoured vehicles raided a house Thursday morning …
Read More »Rice tells Sudan cooperate or expect confrontation
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Sudan in firm terms on Wednesday it must choose between “cooperation and confrontation” with the rest of the world and accept a UN force for Darfur. Khartoum’s new military offensive in the western region of Darfur makes international pressure all …
Read More »Intelligence report rocks Bush stance
NEW YORK — US spy agencies dropped a political bombshell six weeks before national elections, with the leak Sunday of a classified report concluding that the war in Iraq has spawned a new wave of radicalism and increased the global threat of terrorism.
Read More »US struggles for new Somalia policy
NAIROBI — Anarchic Somalia has confounded US foreign policy once again, leaving Washington struggling to find a coherent approach to a state whose internal turmoil threatens to destabilise the Horn of Africa.
Read More »Darfur rebels say Sudanese gov’t forces pursuing offensive
CAIRO (AP) — Rebels in Sudan’s war-torn region of Darfur said Sunday that government forces backed by bomber aircraft are pursuing a week-old offensive.
Read More »In Congo, river canoes bring chance to vote
MAITA, Congo (Reuters) – “Vote on Sunday! Vote on Sunday!” men shout at villagers from aboard a 50-foot wooden canoe as it glides along the vast Congo river, packed high with boxes of voting ballots and red plastic tables and chairs.
Read More »Sri Lanka air force bombs rebels over water spat
COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s air force bombed Tamil Tiger rebel territory in the island’s east for a second day on Thursday amid a spat over water supplies, a military source said, but there were no details on casualties.
Read More »Engineer among new arrests in Mumbai rail blasts
MUMBAI (Reuters) – Two Indian Muslims, one of them a chemical engineer, have been arrested on suspicion of
Read More »Somali government confirms talks with Islamists
MOGADISHU (AFP) — Somalia’s interim government on Tuesday yielded to UN pressure and confirmed that
Read More »Germans split over taboo of Mideast deployment
BERLIN (Reuters) – The prospect of German soldiers heading to the Israeli border region as part of an international force has sparked a
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