What It's Like Being Eaten by a Hippo
Paul Templer survived a trip few can claim they've returned from. Namely, he was inside a hippo's stomach and lived to tell the tale.
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Troops of the Congolese Army trained by a U.S. Special Forces team went on to commit mass rape and murder of women and children while fleeing rebel forces last year, according to a new United Nations report, raising questions not just about these particular atrocities but surrounding the United States's Africa Command operations in general.
Paul Templer survived a trip few can claim they've returned from. Namely, he was inside a hippo's stomach and lived to tell the tale.
There are cash-strapped governments and there are broke governments. And then there's Zimbabwe, which, after paying last week's government salaries, has just $217 left in the bank.
The New York Times reports today that the Pentagon is planning to install drone base in Niger, a move that almost certainly guarantees a long-term U.S. presence in North Africa.
People in northern Mali celebrated on Sunday night after French troops won a series of key victories over the Islamist rebels who've been terrorizing the region for weeks.
The Obama administration says it believes that the militants responsible for the recent terror attack were working with "elements of Al Qaeda," as they attempt to solidify the bigger link between Algeria, Mali, and the worldwide fight against extremists.
In an attempt to defend the troubled government from Islamic extremists threatening to bring it down, French military forces have entered the West African country.
At Garamba National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo, wildlife rangers are equipped with rocket launchers, assault rifles, machine guns which they'll need, as The New York Times reports today, because elephant tusks have become the latest conflict resource in Africa and the target of African armies.
We learned two things over the weekend, the first being that in the Kibaale District of Uganda, some people will steal your cell phone even if you're dying of Ebola. The second? That you shouldn't steal cell phones from Ebola patients.
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Hillary Clinton spent six and half hours in the landlocked African nation of Malawi--and some of that time was apparently spent fleeing from a swarm of rampaging, sting-happy bees.
Is there anything more terrifying (to a guy, at least) than a pack of determined males trying to cut off part of your penis? In the southern Ugandan town of Mbale, where a non-coercive circumcision campaign aimed at reducing HIV transmission has metastatized into forced circumcisions, that nightmare scenario is a reality.
The Washington Post reports that U.S. military operations in Africa are expanding into a wide-reaching network of air bases, spy planes, and Special Operations units targeting terrorist and guerrilla groups across the continent
A few months before Invisible Children released Kony 2012, the U.S. sent about 100 troops to Central Africa to help hunt Joseph Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army, and while the video's impact is debatable, it's certainly helping to keep those soldiers on the job.
He's the first head of state to be convicted of a war crime in an international court since the Nuremberg trials and while former Liberian President Charles Taylor's fate won't be as gruesome as that of the victims of the atrocities he supported, they're still pretty pleased with it.
The Washington Post on offshore drilling, The Guardian on the cost of the BP spill, Bloomberg BusinessWeek on solar cells, The New York Times on India's coal, and the Associated Press on Kenya's dairy shortage
The presidents of four African countries were flying to Mali Thursday when their flight was turned around, but it's not clear why they had second thoughts.
The location and status of Mali's president have been unknown since he was ousted in a coup on Thursday, but on Friday the African Union said President Amadou Toumani Touré was safe and near the capital, right after it suspended Mali's membership.
As the the coup d'etat in Mali enters its second day, international observers fear the country's drift from democracy will become permanent.
Whatever precious sexual norms Victoria's Secret's skimpy underwear violates doesn't compare to the fact that the lingerie maker uses cotton picked by child laborers in Burkina Faso.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's bold U.N. speech condemning the discrimination of gay, lesbian and transgendered people across the world had a significant impact in the U.S. But how's it playing around the world?
Two subspecies of rhinoceros have been declared extinct this month, highlighting the problem of poachers who kill the beasts only for their horns.
Obama ordered combat troops to deal with a group called the Lord's Resistance Army
The troops are already on the ground to fight the Lord's Resistance Army
Paul Kagame rants on Twitter more than your typical head of state
It's time for our regular roundup of propaganda from around the world
Data predicts the situation in Africa will get worse before it gets better
Drought isn't something Africa hasn't seen before
The data suggests the media is focusing more on Norway and the debt crisis
Somali refugees lack food to break the Ramadan fast and are vulnerable to rape
Clooney established the Satellite Sentinel Project to serve as an "early warning system"
The world's newest country has numerous challenges
Secession is official at midnight
The teenaged girls would recieve from $160 to, if they had a boy, $190
On the shrinking Nile, political sex scandals, and interrogation deniers
On political wives, female genital mutilation, and the torture debate
A harrowing Guardian report is being denied by European military officials
Weeks-long protests over food and fuel prices have reached the capital of Kampala
Somali pirates veer from the norm as another group of non-commercial sailors is taken hostage, the BBC reports
For days, Muammar Qaddafi has been cracking down on protesters as they advance toward Tripoli. How is this all likely to end?
Is this how the financial crisis happened?
The Libyan ruler has blamed the uprising on al Qaeda and declared himself a "symbolic leader" as he fortifies control over Tripoli and rebels advance to the capital
The U.S. is looking to prosecute the pirates involved in Tuesday's killing of American hostages
The pilots parachuted out of their plane instead of attacking opposition-controlled Benghazi
Bloggers express outrage and fear for others in danger
Signs of democracy, but it won't be easy
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