The Foundation Human Rights for Eritreans, a Netherlands-based organization of exiled Eritreans, is suing the European Union.The NGO claims that the EU is financing a project in which forced labour eing used The 20 million euros project is to finance a road in Eritrea as part of its programme to minimize migration from Africa into Europe. ...

As dawn breaks high in Kenya 39;s Rift Valley, car headlights pick out groups of elite athletes, mere silhouettes on roadsides as their grinding daily training routine gets under way. Coach Lawrence Saina, himself a sub-2hr 10min marathon runner in his day, oversees nine of his Kenyan proteges, sending them out on a 40-kilometre (25-mile) ...

Pulane Koboekae looked pensively at the seven nooses suspended over a trap door in Pretoria Central Prison where her brother Richard Motsoahae was hanged by South Africa 39;s apartheid regime in 1964. Then she pulled out a white tissue and sobbed silently. It has opened up old wounds. I 39;m feeling mixed emotions. I feel sick, but a ...

A London-based international court has ordered Djibouti to pay $385 million in compensation to UAE global ports operator DP World over a breach of contract, the Dubai government said on Thursday. The London Court of International Arbitration also ordered the African nation to pay interest for unilaterally scrapping a 50-year concession cont ...

Embattled US aviation giant Boeing on Thursday insisted on the fundamental safety of its 737 MAX aircraft but pledged to take all necessary steps to ensure the jets 39; airworthiness. The statements came hours after Ethiopian officials said pilots of a doomed plane had crashed last month after following the company 39;s recommendations, ...