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Food crisis as violence continues in Congo
The World Food Programme (WFP) Friday warned that greater numbers of people fleeing fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo were stretching the...
Demonstrations in Khartoum following ICC indictment
More than a thousand angry demonstrators chanting anti-western slogans massed in Khartoum on Thursday in the biggest protest yet against the International Criminal Court’s...
South Sudan President calls for urgent peace road map for Darfur
South Sudan President Salva Kiir has called for an urgent peace road map for Darfur in the wake of the International Criminal Court (ICC)...
Non Zanu-pf school children being flushed out educational system
A crackdown has been launched by war veterans to flush out of Government schools all children whose parents are suspected to be...
Positive reactions to Al-Bashir’s possible prosecution
Africa Action, a Washington-based organisation, Tuesday applauded the International Criminal Court’s call to prosecute Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir for crimes against humanity and genocide...
Nigerian and Scottish rebel groups to join forces ?
Perhaps in an attempt to export its 'expertise' in the Niger Delta region, Nigeria's main militant group MEND (Movement for the Emancipation of the...
An ex-Zanu PF henchman’s fears and regrets
Stanlus Marowa's brief stint as a henchman recruited by local ZANU-PF party leaders is coming back to haunt him since they abandoned him, and...
Signs of civil strife as MDC supporters prepare to hit back
Zimbabwe now stands on the brink of civil strife, a new report released Thursday say.
This is the dire warning contained in a fresh report...
Gordon Brown enrages MEND : Flimsy unilateral ceasefire crumbles
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has announced the end of its unilateral ceasefire and the 'resumption of hostilities' in...
Rebels ambush and kill UN Peace Keepers in Darfur
The United Nations joint peacekeeping mission in Darfur on Wednesday condemned the attack on its peacekeeping troops returning from an investigation mission in Sudan's...
World Food Programme worker killed by Somali gunmen
Somali gunmen shot and killed a UN World Food Programme (WFP)-contracted truck driver, Ahmed Saalim, in southern Somalia, bringing to four, the number of...
Ethiopian troops and Presidential offices targeted in Somali insurgent attack
A number of people were killed and injured and hundreds of families displaced, after a night of heavy fighting in the southwestern town of...
Botswana closes border, deploys military and severs ties with Zimbabwe
The Botswana government has with effect from Thursday sealed off its Botswana-Zimbabwe border. Zimbabwe immigration sources in Plumtree town confirmed the tough decision.
They said...
Lethal mix of drought, extending war pushing Ethiopia to disaster
Donor pledges to cover food and non-food items were insufficient to tackle the massive food shortages the country is facing, the government has said....
Caught between Ethiopian and Eritrean line of fire UNMEE is as good as dead
The UN peacekeeping mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) is as good as dead, according to the Ethiopian government.
"It is now becoming clear that...
Israel agrees to swap hundreds of prisoners for kidnapped soldier
Egyptian sources reported he re that an Israeli negotiator is expected in the North African nation to discuss indirect dealings with Hamas for the...
Mugabe cheers himself up as militants hunt down non voters
Massive voter apathy has marred Zimbabwe's a one-sided presidential run-off as they heeded MDC's call of pulling out.
This leaves the only candidate Robert...
Mugabe given a deadline to negotiate or …
Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangira on Thursday gave a
24-hour deadline to Robert Mugabe to negotiate or face being shunned
as an illegitimate leader responsible...
Nigeria to prevent imminent war between Ethiopia and Eritrea
Ethiopia Tuesday asked Nigeria to deploy a contingent of its troops for peace-keeping mission in its disputed areas with Eritrea.
Making the request when he...
Reasons why the Movement for Democratic Change pulled out of election run-off
Statement delivered by Morgan Tsvangirai announcing a decision taken by the leadership of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC)
The MDC won the March 29th...
Several killed in renewed fighting in northern Ghana
Ten persons were killed in renewed clashes at Bawku in North-eastern corner of Ghana on Saturday, the police said.
Seven others were injured in Buabula,...
Ethiopia worried about spread of Eritrea and Djibouti dispute
Though countries of the Horn of Africa maintain a common desire to keep conflicts away from their neighbourhood, the latest clashes between Djiboutian and...
Egypt’s Coptic Church fights for safety
Egypt's Coptic Christian community has called on the government to do more to protect the troubled minority.
The plea comes after recent clashes between Copts...
Mock killings of people in Ethiopia
Ethiopian government has denied involvement in "mock killings" against supporters of the rebel groups in its Somali region and the execution of more than...
Kenya : Violence breaks out in the Rift Valley after by-elections
Fighting broke out in the volatile Rift Valley region on Thursday after results of by-elections for vacant seats in parliament were released, leaving dozens...
Mozambique demands compensation for South African xenophobic attacks
A number of Mozambican civil society organisations insist the government should demand compensation from the South African authorities for the damage suffered by Mozambican...
Kenyan crisis : A blow to East Africa
The flight of people back to their home provinces has raised concerns that employers may start hiring natives of each province for local operations...
Victims of violent xenophobia arrested upon arrival in Zimbabwe
The first batch of 433 Zimbabwean victims of xenophobia attacks in South Africa arrived on Tuesday aboard the buses which the government dispatched to...
The rain taker : How one man gleefully unsettled Africa’s potential
By the time you finish reading this piece, one hundred illegal immigrants will have crossed the border into South Africa and Botswana, two of...
Nigerians abroad to get proper legal documents ?
Amid rising xenophobia around the world, Nigeria's Foreign Affairs Minister Ojo Maduekwe has called on European countries to grant amnesty to Nigerians living in...