Gunmen wound key Burundi activist

Five Kano Pillars players are shot by gunmen in an attack on the club's entourage as they travelled to Owerri for a match against Heartland.

The US embassy yesterday awarded Ms Joyce Stephano Nyembe the 2014 Woman of Courage award in recognition of her courage and perseverance in championing the rights of women and people living with HIV and Aids in Tanzania.

BUJUMBURA, Burundi — At least 77 civilians have been killed in clashes with Burundi's security forces since the start of anti-government protests in April, a rights activist said Friday.
Another 1,000 people have been arrested and dozens of prisoners tortured, Pierre Claver Mbonimpa, head of the Association for the Protection of Human Rights and Detained Persons, told The Associated Press.
Mbonimpa said his group has representatives across the nation that have been tallying the death toll as...

Bujumbura. The head of the prominent Burundian independent radio station RPA has fled the central African country amid a crackdown by security forces loyal to President Pierre Nkurunziza, a rights activist said Saturday.

Several diplomats were at Mbonimpa’s hospital bedside before the police arrived

Burundi troops have killed two gunmen in separate clashes in recent days, the army said yesterday, the latest unrest following the president’s controversial re-election.

Israel's president says Ethiopian Israelis' protests against alleged discrimination "revealed an open and raw wound" at the heart of Israeli society.

Six Egyptian policemen were wounded in a bomb attack on a bridge in the capital on Friday, officials said.

A 19-year-old Kenyan student was found dead by police in a bush in Covington, Georgia, in the US on Sunday afternoon.Authorities said Felix Irungu, a second-year student at Mercer University in Georgia, died of a gunshot wound in the head.The county coroner said a bullet had gone through his head, shuttering the skull.
Irungu’s body was discovered by a team of policeofficers from the Newton County Sherriff’s department who had been dispatched to comb the bushy area.
The teenager’s parents told...