A stampede at a world music festival in Rabat on Saturday night left at least 11 people dead and some 40 others injured, Moroccan police said. The dead were five women, four men and two children, police said, adding that a wire fence appeared to have collapsed when the crowd made a big surge. Some 70,000 spectators had crammed ...

A stampede at a world music festival in Rabat on Saturday night left at least 11 people dead and some 40 others injured, police said.

It would be reductive to say 2008 was Africa's year. Africa is vast and full of contrasts, one entity only in the mind of Sarah Palin. But as 2008 ends with a half-Kenyan guy taking the White House, it began with a sensational album by preppy Afrobeat fans Vampire Weekend. Suddenly, in musical circles, Africa was hip. Never mind ...