AU mediated Sudan talks to resume
Officials from Juba and Khartoum are due to resume on Tuesday African Union-mediated talks to resolve a furious row over oil transit fees, which many fear risks tipping the bitter rivals back into ...
View ArticleCall for anti-government protest
MAPUTO, Mozambique -- About 300 armed men have gathered in a northern town in Mozambique, some for weeks, and they say they are awaiting orders from the country's main opposition leader to ...
View ArticleLibya-Falling to Pieces story
BENGHAZI, Libya -- In a March 4 story about the turmoil in Libya, The Associated Press erroneously reported the year of the coup that overthrew Libya's monarchy. The coup was in 1969, not ...
View ArticleMerafe CEO calls for $100/t export tariff on South African chrome ore
South Africa is pricing itself out of the ferrochrome market despite it being the world's largest producer of chrome ore by selling it at low cost to ...
View ArticleLibya 'Could Fall Apart' as East Declares Autonomy
Eastern Libya has declared autonomy from the rest of the country in a move that authorities in Tripoli had warned could destabilize the territorial integrity of the country. Tuesdan in the main ...
View ArticleDemocratic Congo"s Cabinet Resigns
Kinshasa, Mar 6 (Prensa Latina) The entire cabinet of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) resigned on Tuesday to allow President Joseph Kabila to form a new government after his reelection as ...
View ArticleTurkish Airlines Reaches Somalia
Mogadishu, Mar 6 (Prensa Latina) A Turkish Airlines aircraft landed on Tuesday at Aden Adde Airport in this city, after 22 years without the country receiving an international commercial flight from ...
View ArticlePapua New Guinea"s Supreme Court President Accused of Corruption
Port Moresby, Mar 6 (Prensa Latina) The president of the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea, Salamo Injia, must face an investigation into his alleged involvement in an illegal diversion of funds, ...
View ArticleFires under control after Congo blast
Fires that have raged for two days after a huge munitions dump blast in Congo's capital Brazzaville have been brought under control, while the death toll has risen to 180 with over 1300 ...
View ArticleSouth Africa sets sights on top spot
South Africa's cricketing steam train looks set to keep rolling over New Zealand in the Test series, but the hosts are hoping a new format will signal a change of ...
View ArticleWanted UK terror woman flees Kenya, official says
NAIROBI, Kenya -; A top Kenyan police official said Tuesday that a pregnant British woman believed to be the widow of one of the July 7, 2005, London bombers has fled the country for lawless ...
View ArticleCall for anti-government protest
MAPUTO, Mozambique -; About 300 armed men have gathered in a northern town in Mozambique, some for weeks, and they say they are awaiting orders from the country's main opposition leader to ...
View ArticleLibya-Falling to Pieces story
BENGHAZI, Libya -; In a March 4 story about the turmoil in Libya, The Associated Press erroneously reported the year of the coup that overthrew Libya's monarchy. The coup was in 1969, not ...
View ArticleEastern Libya pulls away from central government
A Libyan man, wearing the colors of the pre-Gadhafi flag, weeps for his brother at a funeral in Benghazi, Libya, Monday, March 5, 2012 for victims buried in a mass grave. Thousands of mourners ...
View ArticleChallenging the urbanization myths
Africa's cities are growing at a frightening rate, as people flood from the countryside to the towns It is a commonly held view, but a London-based academic, Deborah Potts, has been ...
View ArticleNIGERIA-CHAD Migrants fleeing Boko Haram violence await aid
Some 1,000 Chadian migrants - most of them children separated from their families - are waiting for aid in the village of N’Gbouboua in the Lac region of western Chad having ...
View ArticleWomen trafficked into sex work
The growing number of Ugandan women being recruited into forced sex work abroad has led to a government investigation into human trafficking. Hajah Noraihan, the honorary consul of Uganda in ...
View Article'Still we have nothing' - grieving mothers question Tunisia's...
More than a year after protests ended the authoritarian rule of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the glacial pace of Tunisia's economic recovery has families who lost loved ones in the revolt wondering ...
View ArticleBenghazi in political split from rest of Libya
TUNIS // Tribal and militia leaders in Benghazi declared Libya's oil-rich east a semi-autonomous region yesterday in what some fear could be the first step in carving ...
View ArticleCall for anti-government protest
MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) -- About 300 armed men have gathered in a northern town in Mozambique, some for weeks, and they say they are awaiting orders from the country's main opposition leader to ...
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