Clan violence kills 43 in southern Ethiopia
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Fierce inter-clan fighting has killed at least 43 people in Ethiopia's southeastern Ogaden region, inhabited mainly by ethnic Somalis, witnesses said.
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A fire raged through a congested slum in southeastern Bangladesh on Tuesday, killing at least 21 people, including 10 children, a police official said.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia  - A court has sentenced three former rebels to death for killing dozens of people while rebel factions jockeyed for power more than a decade ago, a government spokesman said Thursday.
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A total of 27 people were killed and 11 injured last week when ethnic rebels attacked two passenger buses in southeastern Myanmar, state media said Monday.
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SAMARRA, Iraq  - At least 43 people were killed as insurgents launched a string of attacks on the Iraqi security forces raising questions about their readiness to secure landmark elections next month.
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International and Afghan forces say they have killed 40 militants in clashes in southern Afghanistan.
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BAGHDAD, Jan. 18 -- More than 40 people were killed Friday during clashes between Iraqi security forces and an obscure Shiite sect in southern Iraq, the deadliest violence since the U.S.-led coalition handed over control of the region last month, Iraqi officials said.
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In Bangladesh, at least 50 people have been injured in clashes with authorities during a general strike called by the main opposition party.
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Separatist Kurdish rebels killed 16 Turkish soldiers and wounded 17 in an ambush Sunday in the mountainous southeast of the country, security sources said.
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A gas explosion Sunday killed 17 people and injured at least 40 others in eastern Algeria, the official APS news agency reported.
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At least one person has been killed and four foreigners were kidnapped during an attack by armed assailants against an oil installation belonging to Italian company Agip in southern Nigeria.
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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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The attack, the deadliest in Iraq in months, occurred in a southern city where rival Shiite groups have been battling for power.
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One man died and two others were injured  in uncertain circumstances in southern Egypt, a police source  said on Thursday, in the latest in a series of clashes between  Muslims and Christians in Egypt.
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Amnesty International claimed that up to 500 people were killed in clashes between rival armed gangs in the Nigerian oil city of Port Harcourt in the past month.
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NAKURU, Kenya  - Kenyan police battled on Saturday to stop clashes between tribal gangs wielding machetes, spears and bows and arrows that have killed at least 27 people in the western town of Nakuru in three days of bloodshed.
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Thousands of police patrolled a tense town today after street fights between members of the country&#39;s main ethnic group and a Muslim minority left seven people dead and 42 injured.