Queen Elizabeth National Park is one of Uganda's most popular safari destinations. Anthrax has killed at least 83 hippopotamuses in a popular Ugandan game park that saw a similar outbreak six years ago, an official said. Tom Okello, area conservation manager at Queen Elizabeth National Park in south-west Uganda, says 83 hippos are dead. The park, one of Uganda’s... 

Robert Mugabe told EU and other diplomats to 'go to Hell' over their sanctions regime EU, German and US envoys to Zimbabwe have been berated by Harare for walking out of the funeral of President Robert Mugabe’s sister. The diplomats left the burial ceremony on Sunday after Mr Mugabe used the occasion to lay into the West. In his speech for his younger sister... 

Two foreign nationals were raped in two separate incidents in the Eastern Cape, police said on Sunday. A 15-year-old German girl was raped, allegedly by two armed men who broke into a chalet she was sharing with her 14-year-old brother at a bed and breakfast facility in Addo, said Captain Ernest Sigobe. “The men allegedly gained entry by breaking the back window... 

A survivor sits near a relative who was killed in a bomb attack at an Ethiopian restaurant in Uganda's capital. Investigators found an unexploded suicide vest with ball bearings in a disco hall in Uganda’s capital, suggesting that militants planned another attack, officials said Tuesday. Four “foreign” suspects were arrested in connection with the... 

Map locates Sange, Dem. Rep. Congo where a tanker carrying oil exploded. A tanker truck hauling fuel on a rural eastern Congo highway overturned, gushing oil and exploding in a massive fireball that killed about 220 bystanders, including many who had been watching the World Cup in flimsy roadside shacks, officials and witnesses said Saturday. The Red Cross said at least... 

China has spent $50 million building a stadium at this site in Conakry, Guinea If you want to see what’s wrong with Africa, take a trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo. The size of Western Europe, with almost no paved roads, Congo is the sucking vortex where Africa’s heart should be. Independent Congo gave the world Mobutu Sese Seko, who for 32 years impoverished... 

The riots sparked Saturday by the inhabitants of the city in Sidi Salem (Annaba, Algeria) Monday continued late into the evening. For the first time, rioters burned the Algerian national flag before marching with the French flag in hand before the elements of the riot squad sent in place force. Information confirmed by Mohamed Ghazi, the Wali of Annaba. Indeed, speaking... 

Racial conflicts in the French National Soccer team is a luck for Mexico who has humiliated France 2-0, leaving France to be at the bottom of Group A Despite showing to the public an image of racial harmony, nothing seems right anymore in the French national soccer team, due to internal racial conflicts, France is definitively eliminated for the next stage and will... 

High visibility policing is part of World Cup security plans Three foreign journalists covering the World Cup in South Africa have been robbed at gunpoint, police say. One of them saw two robbers as they broke into their lodgings near Johannesburg in the early morning. “One of the suspects pointed a gun at the journalist and told him to lie down,” police... 

Despite the refusal of the Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, Zahi Hawass, to release any DNA results which might indicate the racial ancestry of Pharaoh Tutankhamen, the leaked results reveal that King Tut’s DNA is a 99.6 percent match with Western European Y chromosomes. The DNA test results were inadvertently revealed on a Discovery... 

Obama administration takes unprecedented action to protect an American sports team. The Colombian football team had $2,500 looted from their hotel rooms by hotel staff in South Africa. The same thing happened to the Egyptian team during preliminaries. Now the Obama administration has ordered federal agents to South Africa to protect the American team. A large force... 

Archeologists have unearthed 57 ancient Egyptian tombs, most of which hold an ornately painted wooden sarcophagus with a mummy inside, Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities said Sunday. The oldest tombs date back to around 2750 B.C. during the period of Egypt’s first and second dynasties, the council said in a statement. Twelve of the tombs belong the... 

Brig Gen Nontobeko Mpaxa A sergeant major at the SA Army Combat Training Centre at Lohatlha in the Northern Cape is going to court after the general officer commanding of Lohatlha, Brigadier General Nontobeko Mpaxa, allegedly told him that she “hates whites” before spitting on the ground in front of him. Apparently the incident occurred after At Malan was... 

Senator Ahmad Sanni Yerima A Nigerian senator accused of marrying a 13-year-old Egyptian girl says he has done nothing wrong. Ahmad Sani Yerima, 49, told the BBC that his fourth wife was not 13, but would not say how old she was. He denied breaking the law but said he would not respect any law that contradicted his religious beliefs. The Nigerian senate ordered an investigation... 

Supporters of white supremacist Terreblanche protest yesterday as his alleged killers appear in cour A VILE Facebook campaign to incite race hate ahead of the World Cup in South Africa in June is being investigated by police. The official probe was launched into a group set up by alleged supporters of firebrand politician Julius Malema. One entry, emailed to football...