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• Fighting flares up in Dafur

  Created: Wednesday, 28 January 2009 12:06 Author: Editorial Dept

  Aerial bombing and artillery fire continued for a second day on the outskirts of the city of El Fasher, North Darfur, where the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) has its headquarters, the mission reported today. The Sudanese Governm...

• 25 die in Madagacar political roits

  Created: Tuesday, 27 January 2009 20:34 Author: Irene Kekiziba

  Madagascan President Marc Ravalomanana yesterday called for talks with his main opponent, Antananarivo Mayor Andry Rajoelina, the day after anti-government protests turned violent. 25 people including employees of a food processing belonging to the Presid...

• Army Worms cause havock in Liberia

  Created: Tuesday, 27 January 2009 14:55 Author: Editorial Dept

  Army worms have now struck 65 towns across Liberia, leaving in their wake wells contaminated by faeces, fields empty of crops and markets devoid of food. The government was set to declare a state of emergency on Wednesday, January 26th 2009 to enable it t...

• Zimbabwe SADC talks end in confusion

  Created: Tuesday, 27 January 2009 14:19 Author: Editorial Dept

  Months of efforts to reach a power-sharing deal in Zimbabwe ended in confusion today. A meeting of regional leaders claimed an agreement had been reached on a unity government, only to be contradicted immediately by Zimbabwe's main opposition party. A su...

• Nigeria Soccer team Perishes in Crash

  Created: Monday, 26 January 2009 01:36 Author: Editorial Dept

  Police in Nigeria say 15 members of a local government football team have been killed in a road accident in central Plateau state. The Nigeria Football Federation head, Mohamed Sanusi, said the team had been on their way to play a match in Abuja. A simi...

• "Not guilty" plea entered in Congo war crimes trial

  Created: Monday, 26 January 2009 01:21 Author: Kiwanuka L. Nsereko

  Former Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga has pleaded not guilty to charges of using child soldiers at the International Criminal Court (ICC). He faces six charges of recruiting and using hundreds of children aged under 15 to fight in DR Congo's b...

• Lonrho rice farming desplacing thousands in Angola

  Created: Saturday, 24 January 2009 05:25 Author: Editorial Dept

  Lonrho the pan-African conglomerate owned by a Briton billionaire has secured leasehold rights to 25,000 hectares of rice paddies in Angola and is negotiating two bigger land deals in Mali and Malawi, in another sign of investor appetite for African land....

• Kenyan Cabinet shuffled

  Created: Saturday, 24 January 2009 05:07 Author: Editorial Dept

  Kenyan president Mwai Kibaki has carried out a brief cabinet reshuffle with far reaching implications. Succession politics seemed to take a more definite shape yesterday when he elevated Mr Uhuru Kenyatta to the plum Ministry of Finance. The much-awaited...

• General Nkunda Arrested After Fierce Fighting

  Created: Friday, 23 January 2009 13:50 Author: Editorial Dept

    Gen Laurent Nkundabatware, commonly known by his last name shorter version, Nkunda, leader of the strongest rebel group in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, has been arrested in Rwanda after fierce fighting betweem his rebel forces and the combine...

• Uganda meningitis epidemic kills more

  Created: Thursday, 22 January 2009 18:29 Author: Editorial Dept

  KAMPALA-UGANDA,  At least 35 people have died in a meningitis epidemic that has hit several districts in western and north-western Uganda over the past two weeks, a health ministry official said. "Cumulatively we have recorded 47 cases of meningitis wit...

• Last-Ditch talks open in Zimbambwe

  Created: Tuesday, 20 January 2009 13:55 Author: Editorial Dept

  Harare, Zimbabwe -- Talks among regional African leaders failed Monday to resolve a long-standing power-sharing dispute between embattled Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai. Morgan Tsvangirai, the leader of the opp...

• Sub-Saharan Africa Growth to slide by 4.5%

  Created: Monday, 19 January 2009 04:34 Author: Editorial Dept

  Sub-Saharan Africa Growth to slide by 4.5% The African Development Bank (ADB) will play an unprecedented counter-cyclical role to offset the negative effect of the global financial crisis and recession on African economies, the bank's president, Donald K...

• Health concerns over Nigeria’s President

  Created: Saturday, 17 January 2009 13:40 Author: Editorial Dept

  (Abuja, Wire services)Nigeria's presidency declined to comment on a newspaper report on Friday that President Umaru Yar'Adua would spend eight weeks abroad having medical checks from January 26. The Business Day newspaper quoted a special assistant in th...

• Ethiopia: New Law Ratchets up Repression

  Created: Saturday, 17 January 2009 13:33 Author: Editorial Dept

  (New York, January 8, 2009) - On January 6, 2009, Ethiopia's parliament enacted a new law on nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that criminalizes most human rights work in the country, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch said that the law ...

• Military Junta forms Government

  Created: Thursday, 15 January 2009 17:35 Author: Editorial Dept

  Guinea's military ruler named a government that included civilians on Wednesday, three weeks after seizing power in a coup following the death of long-time authoritarian President Lansana Conte, state TV reported.     Moussa Dadis Camara, the young a...

• Bemba disowns his Militia men

  Created: Thursday, 15 January 2009 17:29 Author: Editorial Dept

  Seeking to avoid a war crimes trial, ex-DR Congo vice-president Jean-Pierre Bemba washed his hands Thursday of members of his militia group accused of atrocities in the Central African Republic (CAR).      Bemba's lawyer told the International Crimi...

• Immigrant abuse rampant in France

  Created: Thursday, 15 January 2009 17:25 Author: Editorial Dept

    A report published in a French news paper, Liberation and video footage available on the papers website showing the inside of a detention centre on the French island of Mayotte has reveled the disturbing environment of abuse immigrants detained in the...

• Major Changes in Nigeria's oil industry

  Created: Wednesday, 14 January 2009 16:21 Author: Editorial Dept

  ABUJA (Agencies) - Nigeria's new Oil Minister Rilwanu Lukman has replaced the head of state oil firm NNPC, appointing former acting OPEC secretary-general Mohammed Sanusi Barkindo to the role, the company said on Tuesday.   Barkindo, who served for 15 ...

• Sweeping Arrests in Egypt

  Created: Wednesday, 14 January 2009 15:58 Author: Editorial Dept

  CAIRO (Agencies) - Egyptian police detained 16 members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood on Wednesday, Brotherhood and security officials said, in the latest round-up after rallies against Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip.   The detentions in th...

• Uganda triumph in Cecafa final

  Created: Wednesday, 14 January 2009 02:18 Author: Editorial Dept

  KAMPALA, Jan. 13 (Agencies)Uganda won the 34th CECAFA (Council for East and Central Africa Football Associations) Senior Challenge Cup Tuesday evening after a hard fought 1-0 victory over Harambee Stars of Kenya at Kampala’s Mandela Stadium in Namboole....