Topic: United Nations
Yemen's sidelined President Ali Abdullah Saleh needs "serious" medical treatment which will force him to go abroad, the UN envoy to the country said Wednesday.UN representative Jamal Benomar also highlighted international fears over the spread of Al-Qaeda's influence in Yemen where the ...
The defence chief of a special UN-backed court probing the murder of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri asked judges Friday to lift arrest warrants against four Hezbollah members accused of the killing.Lawyer Francois Roux's request came as the Special Tribunal for ...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - A bomb exploded outside a church in Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria on Sunday, reviving concerns about a radical Islamist sect in the remote region of Africa's most populous nation.No one was confirmed dead but hospital staff said they ...
The United States and United Nations have condemned a car-bomb attack on a government compound in Mogadishu which killed over 70 people in the deadliest attack by Somalia's Shebab rebels.Witnesses described the carnage from Tuesday's attack as the worst they had seen ...
Customs officials in Nigeria, buckling under a spate of bomb attacks blamed on Islamists, have seized an illegal shipment of materials used in bomb-making on a Chinese vessel, an official said Saturday.They were found in a 40-foot (12-metre) container which was searched ...
Nigeria's army arrested a man on Friday after he sought to drive into a barracks in the country's main oil region with what an official described as potentially harmful materials.The arrest came amid fears of fresh attacks by Islamist sect Boko Haram, ...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Radical Islamist sect suspects facing trial for involvement in deadly bombings, including a suicide attack on a U.N. headquarters, are junior members of the group, a government official said on Saturday.Four suspected members of Boko Haram, whose name ...
ABUJA (Reuters) - Four suspected members of a radical Islamist sect have been charged with orchestrating a suicide bombing on United Nations headquarters in the Nigerian capital last month that killed at least 23 people. They face the death penalty if found ...
Four suspected members of Islamist sect Boko Haram were accused in court Friday on charges of plotting last month's suicide attack on UN headquarters in Nigeria that killed more than 20 people.The four were identified in court papers as Salisu Mohammed, Yunisa ...
Fresh overnight attacks killed at least 15 people in Nigeria, the latest in a wave of recent killings in an area beset by sectarian violence, a local government official said Saturday."Fifteen people were killed ... in Vwang district of Jos south local ...
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