In this Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016 file photo, a Somali government soldier walks near destroyed buildings, after a suicide car bomb on Friday night in Mogadishu, Somalia. The Somalia-based Islamic extremist group al-Shabab has proved to be a more resilient foe than expected, forcing the United States to expand its military involvement with the realization that current strategies including drone attacks are not enough, security experts say.
The old world order, many people argue, is ending. One result of it, they say, is the election of Donald Trump as president of the US.
"You hang your clothes and before you know it, they become black. You step on your floor, everywhere is black."
Zimbabwe's top human rights lawyer David Coltart released details of some of the boys' suffering in a 24 page report to Independent Newspapers. More and more of Smyth's victims have come forward to tell their stories about the beatings and humiliation and sexual confusion they endured at his hands when they were vulnerable teenagers, all of which were in some way linked to his bizarre sexual behaviour.
'Jailed for protesting' read one of the posters at the Vigil as we gathered in outrage at the arrest of Pastor Evan Mawarire, leader of #ThisFlag movement who was pounced on by a gaggle of CIO people at Harare airport when he arrived back on Tuesday. BIZARRE seems to be the headline of choice for some websites to grab your attention.
Zimbabwe is set to introduce a 15% value added tax on several basic foodstuffs with effect from February 1 2017, following the publication of new legislation. Harare - A Zimbabwe gospel musician and church pastor committed suicide on video, telling his lover he'd show her the empty bottle of pesticide after he'd drunk it.
Photo issued by the University of Brighton of a beach in Gambia as Thomas Cook is implementing contingency plans to return nearly 1,000 UK customers from the west African country following a change in Foreign Office advice due to political unrest.
In this Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014 file photo, Britain's former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw gestures as he speaks in a press conference at the Iranian parliament in Tehran, Iran. Jack Straw is facing legal action in a suit brought by a former Libyan dissident who alleges he and his wife were abducted and sent to Tripoli a decade ago to be interrogated by the regime of late dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
In this photo taken Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016, Kenyan artist Evans Yegon displays one of his paintings of Donald Trump, as a painting of President Barack Obama hangs on the wall, left, at his studio in Nairobi, Kenya. Yegon is sad to see President Barack Obama leave office.
In this photo taken Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016, Kenyan artist Evans Yegon displays one of his paintings of Donald Trump, as a painting of President Barack Obama hangs on the wall, left, at his studio in Nairobi, Kenya. Yegon is sad to see President Barack Obama leave office.
Kampala A deceased Ugandan man was reportedly buried with at least $5 700 which he said he wanted to offer as an "offertory" for God to "forgive him" of his sins and "save him from hell fire". Reverend Joel Agel Awio was quoted saying that there was no amount of money that could buy eternal life, adding that God could not accept such "a golden handshake".
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, right, shares a light moment with his Sao Tome counterpart Urbino Botelho after a signing ceremony at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, Monday, Dec. 26, 2016. China and Sao Tome and Principe officially resumed diplomatic relations on Monday, in a triumph for Beijing over rival Taiwan after the African island nation abruptly broke away from the self-ruled island last week.