"French soldiers were themselves directly involved in the assassinations of Tutsis and Hutus accused of hiding Tutsis," and "French soldiers committed many rapes, specifically of Tutsi women". Read more

Predictably, Robert Mugabe has won the electoral farce, passed off as a presidential run-off on 27 June. In the run-up to these polls the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) had 86 of its supporters killed, 10,000 injured, a further 5,000 missing and 200,000 displaced from their homes by militias loyal to ZANU-PF. Read more

"A lion's cub of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, valiant martyr Hamza Abu Aderrahman, drove a vehicle laden with at least 650 kilograms (1,430 pounds) of explosives against the ramparts of the apostates: the judicial police station in Thenia." Read more