Congolese troops on Sunday were facing an offensive by DR Congo rebels in the eastern province of South Kivu, military and civilian sources said. The sources said the troops were up against a disparate coalition of Yakutumba rebels loyal to a former army general opposed to President Joseph Kabila as well as Malaika ( angel ) allies. The sourc ...

More than $16 million in cash and luxury watches were seized at an airport in Brazil in the luggage of a delegation accompanying the son of the president Equatorial Guinea, local media reported. Teodorin Nguema Obiang, vice president of Equatorial Guinea and son of its longtime president, Teodoro Obiang Nguema, arrived Friday on a private plane ...

Four decades ago the leaders of Israel and Egypt reached a deal at an epic summit that led to the first peace treaty between the Jewish state and an Arab nation. The Camp David Accords, thrashed out over days of talks hosted by then US president Jimmy Carter, were signed on September 17, 1978. Here is a look back at that key moment in history ...

Animal conservation in Africa has suffered several setbacks in recent months prompting experts at an African tourism conference this week in Cape Town to warn about the cost to the travel industry. Obviously it's negative, said the African Tourism Association's (ATA) managing director Naledi Khabo, who spoke at the inaugural event organised by ...

Some view it as gainful employment for youths with too much free time, others as a tool to blunt protest movements -- Moroccans are divided over the looming return of military service. Twelve years after conscription was scrapped, the royal palace announced in mid-August that compulsory military service is to be restored. Millions of Moroccan ...