Africa

Dutch obsession with New Year’s Eve fireworks rattles giraffes at Netherlands zoo; only pop music can calm the animals.

Unions in Nigeria say they’ll call a nationwide strike “within days” after the government removed a fuel subsidy that has reportedly doubled prices in some parts of the country.

Tens of thousands of people, mostly women and children, have fled into the bush to escape violence between rival tribes in South Sudan’s Jonglei state.

Activists accuse Coke of propping up Swaziland’s regime.

Kenyan papers write lots of stories about the army in Somalia but only have 1 source: the military.