Tag: local official

In Senegal's southern Casamance region, new houses dot a landscape once dominated by abandoned ruins full of bullet holes, though ...

Five people died when an apartment building collapsed in southern Pakistan early Tuesday as most of its residents were sleeping, ...

The young woman laboured up the steps, past brightly decorated walls akin to a child's nursery, her daughter in her ...

The bodies of eight missing Malian soldiers have been found following a presumed jihadist attack on July 9, official sources ...

At least 27 people have perished and 54 are missing after an overcrowded boat sank in a river in the ...

Languidly ploughing flooded paddy-fields, Thailand's buffaloes don't usually strike people as the quickest of beasts. But farmers in eastern Thailand ...

The school year is ending in the west African nation of Guinea-Bissau, but some pupils will hardly notice the difference. ...

Two bombers blew themselves up in northeastern Cameroon killing 15 people and injuring 45 others in an attack likely staged ...

Two bombers blew themselves up in northeastern Cameroon killing 14 people and injuring 30 people in an attack likely staged ...

There's no electricity and only 500 residents in the Congolese village of Makwatsha, but a longstanding tradition by its womenfolk ...

Fifty-two migrants have been found dead in the deserts of central Niger, near Séguédine. A group of 75 set out ...

Iraqi forces launched a house-to-house search operation Monday in parts of west Mosul after a surprise attack by Islamic State ...

Iraqi forces on Monday were searching neighbourhoods of west Mosul they retook weeks ago after a surprise jihadist attack on ...

When senior bureaucrats visited the remote Thai province where local official Boonyarit worked, the routine was often the same: welcome ...

Multiple blasts killed at least 24 people in two Pakistani cities on the last Friday of Ramadan, Islam's holiest month, ...

At least 11 people were killed and 24 wounded on Friday when twin blasts tore through a market crowded with ...

A Japanese governor has retracted his call for North Koreans to be "starved to death" if Pyongyang were to target ...

Extortion, corruption and fear; violence, hunger and sometimes even death: for west African migrants dreaming of reaching Europe, the road ...

Qatar moved Sunday to avoid an escalation of its feud with Gulf neighbours by telling their citizens they are welcome ...

Iran has sent five planes of food to Qatar, Iran's national carrier told AFP on Sunday, days after Gulf countries ...