Gunmen kill several at Congo election rally
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Gunmen opened fire on an election rally and killed several people in Congo's volatile east, the United Nations reported Wednesday, the latest outburst of violence as the nation prepares for its first free legislative and presidential balloting in 46 years.
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Insurgents have dragged three employees of Iraq&#39;s Electoral Commission from a car in Baghdad and shot them dead, the latest in a series of attacks designed to disrupt efforts to hold the January 30 election.
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Gunmen have killed two African Union peacekeepers and critically wounded a third in Sudan's western Darfur region, the AU said Wednesday.
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Fighters loyal to a dissident general have attacked army positions in eastern Congo with small arms and heavy weapons, the government and the U.N. said on Saturday.
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Fighters loyal to a dissident general attacked army positions in eastern Congo with heavy weapons and small arms on Saturday, said the government and the United Nations.
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Gunmen kill at least three people in Baghdad - reports say the victims may be election workers.
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Gunmen opened fire Friday on a vehicle carrying foreign workers in Nigeria's unruly oil-producing south, killing one Lebanese man, while assailants on speedboats kidnapped two Italians in separate violence.
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AT least 60 people were killed and more than 120 wounded in Iraq car-bombings overnight, while gunmen carried out a brazen ambush on a car in Baghdad, killing three election officials.
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Days of clashes between security forces and demonstrators claiming electoral fraud have left nearly 100 people dead in several southwestern Congo towns, humanitarian and rights groups said Friday.
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Clashes between rival tribes in the Kenyan capital killed at least three people on Sunday in a fresh flare-up of ethnically-motivated violence after President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election last month, witnesses said.
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Gunmen have killed 22 civilians and wounded 10 in a weekend attack in Sudan's war-torn western region of Darfur, the African Union said.
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BUKAVU, Congo  - Rival factions of Congo's army battled in the eastern region of the vast country Saturday, killing several people, a top military official said.
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Gunmen killed a Kenyan opposition politician at his home in the early hours of Tuesday and ethnic violence spread across the nation as a month-long political crisis threatened to spiral out of control.
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Gunmen have killed two African Union peacekeepers and critically wounded a third in Darfur, the African Union said in a statement Wednesday.
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At least 10 people were killed in Kenya on Friday when police opened fire on protesters and rival ethnic groups clashed in violence caused by a disputed election.
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Fighters loyal to a dissident general  attacked army positions in eastern Congo with heavy weapons on  Saturday, killing two soldiers and sending thousands of people  fleeing into the bush, U.N. officials said.
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At least 37 people have been killed in clashes between security forces and opposition supporters protesting against the results of governorship polls in Congo's most western province, officials said on Thursday.