Convicted Somali pirates who were freed following an Al Qaeda attack on a prison in the Yemeni city of Mukallah arrived back in Puntland, Garowe Online reports. Speaking on VOA Somali Service on Saturday afternoon, Mahdi Isse said he was serving a sentence in the prison after he was convicted of tak...

Last month alone, more than 2,000 men, women and children from northern Mali have sought refuge in Mauritania from ongoing banditry and interethnic violence. MBERA CAMP, Mauritania – Tuareg mother Fatimata and her cattle herder family hid out in the desert of northern Mali after violence between ...

Chad was named for a mistake. In the eighteen-hundreds, European explorers arrived at the marshy banks of a vast body of freshwater in Central Africa. Because locals referred to the area as chad, the Europeans called the wetland Lake Chad, and drew it on maps. But chad simply meant “lake” in a local...