Renditions fuel anger against U.S.
Clement Ibrahim Muhibitabo is one of the forgotten ones. So is Ines Chine. So is Abdul Hamid Moosa. Rwandan, Tunisian and South African citizens respectively, the three Africans are among...
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‘Nobody is watching’
To glimpse America's secret war in Africa, you must bang with a rock on the iron gate of the prison in this remote port in northern Somalia. A sleepy guard...
African armies receive U.S. expertise, ammo
TADJOURA, Djibouti—In hundreds of military training programs from the Sahara to the Seychelles, the U.S. is quietly bolstering Africa's ragtag armies to fight extremism so the Pentagon won't have to....
War on terror’s hidden front
The desert is a war. U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Cynthia Ramirez roared through it in an unmarked Land Cruiser, projecting the awesome might of the U.S. military into a wasteland...
South Africa’s rainbow dims
The South Africa admired by the world -- a beacon of hope and racial harmony -- is getting some polish on a hilltop outside this capital city. Freedom Park, a...
Who’s pirating whom?
Somalia's pirates want the world to know they are regrettably misunderstood. They are merely "gentlemen who work in the ocean." Indeed, many are salty patriots risking their lives at sea...
For U.S. Navy, high stakes in pirate standoff
They may be cornered by high-tech U.S. destroyers and cruisers -- lethal warships flying the flag of the mightiest navy in the world. But the sandaled pirates who seized a...
War’s assault on the mind
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Abdulrahman Habeb was a man with problems, the most pressing of which involved a barrel of tranquilizer pills. The barrel — containing 50,000 capsules of fluphenazine hydrochloride,...
Jailed for 34 days, Tribune reporter writes: What I saw in Darfur
One cloudless Sunday morning in early August, while traveling on a desert road in the remote Darfur region of western Sudan, a teenager sporting dreadlocks and an AK-47 rifle stopped...
On road to economic meltdown
Don't come looking for bargains at the Mbare market anymore. Once a sprawling and funky warren of food stalls, workshops, and mom-and-pop stores crammed onto the southern edge of this...