UN agencies launch massive operation in South Sudan
The United Nations on Friday said it is launching a massive humanitarian operation to help an estimated 50,000 people hit by inter-ethnic conflict in South Sudan's Jonglei ...
View ArticleParty of Mandela, S.Africa's ANC marks 100 years
On Sunday, Zuma will address a mass rally at the start of a challenging year when he is bidding for re-election as party boss amid increasing internal threats to his ...
View ArticleGhana seizes truckload of arms heading for Nigeria
Ghanaian security agents seized a truckload of arms and ammunition believed to be on its way to crisis-torn Nigeria and arrested five people, a senior police officer in Accra said on ...
View ArticleLikely French U-turn on Rwanda killing thaws ties
A file photo taken on April 15, 2007 in Kigali, Rwanda, shows the wreckage of the plane in which killed former Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana. ...
View ArticleItaly & Libya sign new pact to boost ties
Italy and Libya have signed a political pact to redefine their ties, as Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti makes his first visit in the post-Gaddafi ...
View ArticleCricket South Africa planning franchise expansion
Cricket South Africa (CSA) is planning to spread out its top-flight structure, as it feels its domestic foundation is strong enough to do so.
View ArticleChild refugees from Libyan crisis in Norway for UN resettlement process
A group of 33 unaccompanied children who spent months in a refugee camp in Tunisia after fleeing last year's turmoil in Libya have arrived in Norway for a resettlement process spearheaded by the Unite
View ArticleBan calls for more cross-border cooperation in Central Africa to target new...
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for an increase in cross-border cooperation among Central African States to deal with new threats in the region, which include piracy, human trafficking and the pr
View Article'Beleaguered' Smith gets Twitter salute after scoring ODI ton...
Former South Africa captain Graeme Smith was showered with praises on Twitter after he regained form and scored a century against Sri Lanka at the Wanderers.
View ArticlePost-Mubarak, parliament holds first session
Cairo - Egypt's parliament convened Monday for the first time since former President Hosni Mubarak's ouster last year, with Islamists dominating the 498-seat chamber.
View ArticleMalawi lawyers march to support striking clerks
Scores of lawyers wore their court white wigs and black robes Monday as they marched around court buildings in the commercial capital, Blantyre. Law society president John Gift Makhwawa says the ...
View ArticleMighty Ghana set to face Botswana
Four-time African Cup of Nations champion Ghana is an overwhelming favourite to beat first-timer Botswana in their opening African Cup of Nations ...
View ArticleSenior officials to face trial over Kenya violence
Four leading Kenyans have been ordered to stand trial at the International Criminal Court accused of planning the deadly wave of violence that followed the 2007 presidential ...
View ArticleZambia to take back Libya-owned Zamtel
Zambia will take back a 75 percent stake in local fixed-line operator Zamtel that is currently held by Lybia's LAP Green Networks, Finance Minister Alexander Chikwanda said on ...
View ArticleNo money, no CD4 tests
CD4-count tests are used to initiate patients on treatment MBABANE, 23 January 2012 (PlusNews) - Swaziland is still short of lab reagents needed for CD4 count testing, which is used to initiate and ...
View ArticleZim workers' strike off to slow start
A strike by Zimbabwean civil servants to demand a doubling of basic wages got off to a slow start on Monday with schoolchildren being turned away, while business went on as usual at some government ...
View ArticleAfrican held with Rs.2 crore-worth cocaine at Delhi airport
New Delhi, Jan 23: A man from Africa was arrested at the Delhi airport with 200 grams of cocaine valued around Rs.2 crore, police said Monday. The contraband was concealed in his ...
View ArticleICC denies it will allow Saif Al Islam Qaddafi to be tried in Libya
THE HAGUE // The International Criminal Court (ICC) has denied that it had agreed that Saif Al Islam Qaddafi, the son of toppled Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi, will be tried in Libya. "The ...
View ArticleUS-NATO war crimes in Libya
A report released last week by Middle East human rights groups presents extensive evidence of war crimes carried out in Libya by the United States, NATO and their proxy "rebel" forces ...
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