The streets of the capital of the Central African Republic were deserted, with residents terrified at the shelter inside and tens of thousands of people fleeing their homes after three days of shooting and blood. “We fear that the violence we see in Bangui is a return to the dark …

The EU on Wednesday urged the transitional authorities of Burkina Faso to fast forward with the elections after renegade troops of the Presidential Guard staged a short-lived coup. “The end of the fighting is an important step towards the normalization of the situation in Burkina Faso,” arms of Foreign Affairs …

A suspected Islamist militant al-Qaida accused of ordering the destruction of precious monuments in the legendary city of Timbuktu in Mali appeared for the first time on Wednesday before the judges of the International Criminal Court. Ahmad al-Mahdi al-Faqi was a first hearing in court based in The Hague, in …