KINSHASA (Reuters) - More than 50 people have been killed in clashes between ethnic groups in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, three local aid workers said on Sunday, the largest death toll in fighting between the two groups for months.
DOUALA (Reuters) - A suicide bomber has killed at least seven people in a small town in northern Cameroon near the Nigeria border, a local official and a military source said on Sunday.
BOSTON (Reuters) - A Rwandan man who sought asylum in the United States claiming he fled the African nation's 1994 genocide was charged by U.S. prosecutors on Friday with lying about having been part of the political party that led the killing.
GABORONE (Reuters) - A transgender woman who was born male is suing Botswana's government for refusing to legally recognise her as female in a case that could force a conservative society to address the rights of the gay, lesbian and transgender community.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - An explosives-laden car blew up in the centre of Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Friday, killing at least one person and injuring another, police said.
DAKAR (Reuters) - The United Nations' peacekeeping mission has uncovered mass graves in a region of northern Mali beset by conflict between rival groups, the mission said on Saturday.
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