Gas Tanker Explosion Kills More Than 40 in Liberia
After the tanker overturned in an accident, people gathered around the vehicle trying to scoop up fuel before it caught fire and exploded.
After the tanker overturned in an accident, people gathered around the vehicle trying to scoop up fuel before it caught fire and exploded.
The military junta in Burkina Faso, a West African nation struggling to defeat extremist groups, has been forcibly conscripting critics, say human rights organizations.
The election in Africa’s second-largest nation, which cost over a billion dollars, is being closely followed across the world.
People by the thousands risk crocodile attacks, robbery, drowning and arrest to cross the Limpopo River from Zimbabwe to South Africa, part of a booming migrant economy.
Against the odds, facing the encroaching Sahara, he built a forest in Burkina Faso, becoming “a national hero” and winning acclaim abroad for his innovations.
Maalim Ayman, a senior leader of the extremist group al-Shabab, was believed responsible for attacks in Kenya on a university town that killed 148 people, and on a U.S. military base that killed three Americans.
The capture by paramilitary forces of Wad Madani, a strategic city in the country’s agricultural region, marks a watershed in the civil war that has upended life in the northeast African nation.
The presidential race in the Democratic Republic of Congo is being closely watched internationally. Congo is rich in the rare minerals needed to make electric cars and solar panels.
Only a fraction of the presumed cases in five countries have led to positive tests for anthrax. Some scientists say other causes cannot yet be ruled out.
Passed in May, the Anti-Homosexuality Act is harming businesses that rely on foreign travelers and trade.