South Africa's Jacques Kallis and De Villiers test Sri Lanka's resolve
South Africa's Jacques Kallis celebrates reaching 200 on day two of the third Test against Sri Lanka at Newlands. Photograph: Gallo Images/Getty ...
View ArticleWomen Set to Make Their Mark in Politics
NAIROBI, Jan 4, 2012 (IPS) - The August 2012 elections in Kenya will open doors to massive political participation by women for the first time ever.The new constitution in effect since August 2010 ...
View ArticleHillsboro woman trying to free cousins held in Angola
Angola after the artists he helped book for a New Year’s Eve concert did not show up to perform. Barbara Callahan told KATU News Tuesday that she fears her family members are being used as ...
View ArticleLibya Confirms Four Dead in Clashes
Tripoli, Jan 4 (Prensa Latina) At least four former insurgents died in armed clashes in this capital, coinciding with the visit to Libya of Tunisia President Moncef Marzouki, confirmed members of ...
View ArticleMaersk Hits Oil Pay Offshore Angola
Sociedade Nacional de CombustÃveis de Angola Empresa Pública (Sonangol, E.P.), Maersk Oil and other partners declared the Azul-1 deepwater exploration well, located in Block 23 in the ...
View ArticleInvestment in African Renewable Energy Reaches $3.6B in 2011
First, the bad news. Although Africa has vast fossil and renewable energy sources, only twenty percent of its population has direct access to electricity and in some rural areas, four out of five ...
View ArticleSect kills 3 despite state of emergency in Nigeria
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria -; Police say three people were killed in attacks by a feared sect despite a state of emergency in areas of northeast Nigeria. Borno state police chief Simeone Midenda said ...
View ArticleIslamist Terror Network Gains Strength in Africa
On Christmas Day, the extremist Muslim sect Boko Haram carried out a suicide attack on a church in Nigeria that killed dozens. By allying itself with groups such as al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, ...
View ArticleCall for more coordinated approach to child protection
A new report on child migration in West Africa says thousands of children are being sold, exchanged or transported out of their communities each year in violation of internationally-recognized ...
View ArticleResidents of South Sudan flashpoint town in need of aid after attack - UN...
While the showdown between the South Sudanese military and thousands of armed tribesmen over the flashpoint town of Pibor has subsided, the humanitarian situation in the area remains grim, a top ...
View ArticleDeaths in Somalia underscore risks MSF endures
NAIROBI, Kenya -- A second foreigner working with Doctors Without Borders died of his wounds in an attack in Somalia that also killed the group's country director, though the aid organization ...
View ArticleCalm prevails election year as sub-Saharan Africa faces democracy tests
NAIROBI, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- It was largely peaceful as 22 sub- Saharan African countries held presidential, legislative or local polls in 2011, when nearly half of the region's population were ...
View ArticleDR Congo bans boats on River Congo
KINSHASA, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- The Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) bans the movement of boats on the River Congo on Tuesday, the day for the swearing in of the re-elected president, Joseph ...
View ArticleDR Congo gov't calls for normal life for Kabila's swearing in
KINSHASA, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) is calling on its people to go on with normal life and not to be afraid of the increased security ...
View ArticleNigeria signs MoU with UNEP on chemical management
ABUJA, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- The Nigerian government has signed a Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) with the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) to establish an enduring institutional framework ...
View ArticleCardinal Condemns Election Results in Congo
Laments Lack of Truth and JusticeKINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo, DEC. 19, 2011 (Zenit.org).- The archbishop of Kinshasa, Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo, says the recent national election results ...
View ArticleHopes Dashed As Fuel Prices Go Up
Dar es Salaam - Hopes that the newly introduced system of bulk fuel procurement would make petroleum products cheaper have been dashed, as an announcement by Ewura shows, instead, that their prices ...
View ArticleUnions Threaten to Shut Down Nigeria Amid Fuel Price Anger
Nigeria's main labour unions on Wednesday threatened to shut down the country next week amid increasingly volatile protests over soaring petrol prices in Africa's largest oil producer. ...
View ArticleShameful Politicking Cannot Undo Garowe Conference Outcome
editorial In reading between the lines of the open letter, it is clear to see that the "opportunistic politicians" who signed the document could not find their name or a role in the ...
View ArticleANC Centennial to Draw 46 Leaders, but Doubts for Mandela
The African National Congress expects 46 heads of state at its 100th anniversary bash this weekend, but isn't sure its iconic leader Nelson Mandela will attend, the party said on Wednesday. ...
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