Nigeria’s opposition Action Congress (AC) has criticised the country’s military hierarchy for threatening to deal with ’trouble makers’ in the aftermath of the Court of Appeal ruling that validated the election of President Umaru Yar’Adua on Tuesday. - Thursday 28 February 2008

French President Nicolas Sarkozy is on a two day visit to Cape Town, South Africa’s political capital, where he is expected to sign a raft of energy, science and technology as well as a tourism and transport deal. - Thursday 28 February 2008

French President Nicolas Sarkozy is on a two day visit to Cape Town, South Africa’s political capital, where he is expected to address the nation’s parliament after a meeting with Thabo Mbeki, the South African President. - Thursday 28 February 2008

Sources said army personnel were pleasantly surprised to find relatively large amounts of money in their usually empty bank accounts after the government deposited huge sums to cushion them against rampant inflation, which rose beyond 100000% last week, the world’s highest. - Thursday 28 February 2008

Damaris and Nancy were friends and neighbours in Nairobi’s Mathare slum before Kenya was plunged into a post-election crisis in late December 2007. They have remained friends despite their different ethnic backgrounds and are now among hundreds of people internally displaced at the Huruma chief’s camp near Mathare. - Thursday 28 February 2008

Over 300 experts in scientific and technological developments will gather here next week to explore how African science based entities can step up their role in international research and development (R&D). - Thursday 28 February 2008

The unrest that has rocked Cameroon since last Monday, following an urban transport strike, has spread to Yoaundé, the political capital, which had until now been spared by the riots. - Thursday 28 February 2008

Many of the estimated 70,000-150,000 Iraqi refugees in Egypt have developed serious psychological and stress-related illnesses, including cardiac problems, according to Ahlam Tobia, a medical doctor who works with refugees in Cairo. - Wednesday 27 February 2008

A day after mediation talks were suspended, the government and opposition Wednesday yielded to mounting international pressure to resolve the two-month-old political deadlock by resuming talks. - Wednesday 27 February 2008

Iran plans to invest in an oil refinery in Zimbabwe to supply fuel to the southern Africa region, Teheran’s top diplomat said Wednesday. Zimbabwe has a disused oil refinery, built with Iranian help in the 1970s, which the government wants refurbished and revived. - Wednesday 27 February 2008