Tropical cyclone kills 12 in Mozambique
Maputo - At least 12 people have been killed and thousands displaced when cyclone Funso hit central Mozambique at the weekend, state television said on Monday, January 23, ...
View ArticleKenya's Kenyatta rejects war crimes charges
Uhuru Kenyatta (right) and a member of the Defence Council attend a hearing at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Six high-profile Kenyans, including Kenyatta, have been named by the ICC ...
View ArticleZambia starts first-ever diarrhoea vaccines on children
LUSAKA - Zambian health authorities on Monday started the country's first-ever vaccine campaign against diarrhea on children under five years of age, in an attempt to reduce deaths arising from ...
View ArticleEthiopia rebels say holding two Germans after attack
ADDIS ABABA -- An Ethiopian rebel group said at the weeked it had kidnapped two German tourists and two Ethiopians, adding that they were safe, in good health and could be released unharmed.The four ...
View Article4 dead in 'pro-Gaddafi' attack in Libya
Bani Walid killing at least four ex-rebel fighters and wounding 20 others on Monday, a local official told AFP. "There are at least four martyrs from the thuwar (anti-Gaddafi revolutionaries) ...
View ArticleAngola are dignifying the flag
Angola players following their opening CAF Africa Cup of Nations match on Sunday.Pragmatism has been at the forefront of the young coach’s approach to the game, and it is not likely to have ...
View ArticleUganda - Three journalists assaulted as police arrest opposition politicians
Nasser Kayanja, Journalists (HRNJ-Uganda/IFEX) - Kampala, 20 January 2012 - Three journalists who were covering the arrest of opposition politicians at Katwe, Ssezibwa and Katonga roads in Kampala ...
View ArticleNigeria - TV reporter killed while covering Kano suicide bombings
Franais (RSF/IFEX) - 23 January 2012 - Reporters Without Borders condemns TV reporter Enenche Godwin Akogwu's targeted murder while covering a series of deadly bombings by the militant ...
View ArticleLibya could fall into “bottomless pit”
January 22, 2012 BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Mustafa Abdel Jalil, the head of Libya's ruling National Transitional Council (NTC), warned on Sunday the country could be heading towards a ...
View ArticleFrance votes for Kenya’s future with loans to the private sector
Running the laser pointer over a graph showing the organisation's financing trends between 2000 and 2011, Mr Terracol remarked: "I would like you to pay particular attention to 2008. You ...
View ArticleTradition precedes politics in South Africa’s ANC party
Woman of the Pedi tribe dance during the Cleansing and Thanksgiving ceremony at the historic Waaihoek Church in Bloemfontein on January 7, 2012. South Africa's mighty African National Congress ...
View ArticleBashir arrives in Libya and slams Gaddafi
Libya's National Transitional Council's chief, Mustafa Abdel Jalil (R) and Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir (L) review the honour guard during a welcoming ceremony in the capital Tripoli ...
View ArticleGovernment to bring home Indian's body
New Delhi, Jan 23 : India Monday said it was making all efforts to get the body of an Indian victim in the Mumbai-style terror attack on Nigeria's second largest city of ...
View ArticleAfrica 'key to London clinching Olympics'
London has Africa to thank for being able to host the Olympics and Paralympics in the northern summer, FIFA president Sepp Blatter has ...
View ArticleMoving beyond violence in Jonglei
Wounded civilians from both sides of an escalating conflict between the Lou Nuer and Murle communities in South Sudan’s Jonglei state lie side by side in the steaming heat of a hospital ward ...
View ArticleNyaluak Deng Awuol, “This child, who will look after him now”
Nyaluak Deng Awuol is caring for her orphaned nephew, five-year-old Ajai Mawut Garang, who is recovering from a gunshot wound in Juba hospital. He was injured along with dozens more in the latest ...
View ArticleSyria turns down Arab League plan for Assad to step down
DAMASCUS - Syria Monday rejected a new Arab League peace proposal that calls for embattled President Bashar al-Assad to hand over power to his deputy and set up a new unity government, terming it a bl
View ArticleAfrica's Sahel scrambles to avert slide "into hell"
MARRAKECH, Morocco — Regional rivalries and doubts about Western intervention are hampering efforts by Africa's fragile Sahara-Sahel zone to prevent remote desert areas destabilized ...
View ArticleICC confirms charges against 4 suspects for Kenya post-election violence
William Ruto [decisions, PDF], who both plan to run for president next year, were among the four suspects charged. The ICC reached this decision after collectively and individually analyzing the ...
View ArticleNigerian police find bomb-filled cars in Kano
KANO/MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigerian police said they found cars and vans filled with explosives in the northern city of Kano on Monday, three days after Islamist sect Boko Haram carried out ...
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