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Five die in northern Ghana ethnic fight
The death toll in ethnic clashes at Bawku in the north-eastern corner of Ghana has risen to five, Interior Minister Kwamena Bartel said on...
BURUNDI: The Special Representative expresses concern for the hundreds of children still in the hands of Palipehutu-FNL of Agathon Rwasa
The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for
Children and Armed Conflict, Ms. Coomaraswamy, welcomes the recent release of 232 child soldiers in Burundi. The release...
Morocco applauds latest resolution on Western Sahara
Moroccan Foreign and Co-operation minister, Taieb Fassi Fihri, says his country is "extremely satisfied" with the latest resolution of the United Nations Security Council...
Egypt : Israeli Palestinian peace negotiations shrouded in secrecy
Egypt has expressed dismay at the secret nature of Israeli and Palestinian diplomacy over peace negotiations.
In comments published by the Qatari daily Ash-sharq newspaper,...
Zimbabwe run-off could take up to a year
Zimbabwe's electoral commission has said it will soon decide the date for a second round of presidential elections, amid mounting tension as the...
MEND – Nigeria militant group heeds to cease fire call from Obama
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has confirmed the latest attack on a 30,000bpd Shell flow station in Nigeria's oil-rich...
Zimbabwe : Tsvangirai’s dilemma
Zimbabwe’s opposition faced a difficult decision on Friday night over whether to contest a presidential run-off after the long-delayed official election results were finally...
Shell station bombed
Suspected militants have blown up a 30,000bpd Shell flow station in Nigeria's oil-rich state of Bayelsa, causing a massive oil spillage and dealing another...
The Polisario Front insists on a referendum for Western Sahara
The Polisario Front urged international opinion to take the claims "made by a people sure of their right" into account. This statement was made...
Egypt brokers Isreal and Palestinian peace
Despite the Islamic Jihad’s refusal, in a statement last Thursday, to be signatory to an Egyptian-brokered truce with Israel, Egypt’s efforts to negotiate peace...
Children under great threat in post election violence
Children are not being spared the impact of Zimbabwe's post-election violence.
The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) in Zimbabwe told IRIN its work was being...
Israel refuses proposed ceasefire by Palestinian group in Egypt
Palestinian groups in Egypt negotiating a ceasefire agreement with Israel in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank Wednesday agreed on a proposal brokered...
Egypt discovers petrol tunnels in Sinai
Egyptian security officials in the Sinai Peninsula have un covered at least five tunnels used for smuggling petrol into Gaza on Tuesday.
An official said...
Mugabe – Mbeki alliance shaky
No official results have been released exactly one month after presidential elections were held in Zimbabwe on March 29th. The two main parties involved...
Scared teachers stay home as schools reopen
Schools are supposed to reopen today for the second term countrywide after a five week long break. But that is not the case here....
Tanzania President warns of the consequences of high food and oil prices
High food and oil prices on the world market are challenges to Africa that should be checked to save many economies in the continent...
Algeria says Morocco must stop plundering Western sahara
The president of the Algerian national people’s congress indicated during the international colloquium on self-determination held in Algiers on Sunday, that the Western Sahara...
Zimbabwe police deny favouritism and brutality accusations
The MDC says 10 of its supporters have been killed in the violence while 3000 others have been displaced from their homes, in what...
Thousands flee as violence erupts in Mogadishu
A fresh eruption of fighting this week in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, has forced an estimated 8,200 people to flee the beleaguered coastal city,...
MDC headquarters raided, hundreds forcefully arrested
Riot police on Friday carried out their first major crackdown on the MDC when they raided its headquarters detaining scores of people.
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US encourages LRA to back Final Peace Agreement in Uganda
The United States has called on the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) to demonstrate its commitment to a peaceful and permanent resolution of the conflict...
Panick strikes Zimbabwe as hospitals choke with tortured victims
Doctors at two secret medical centers set up in Harare and Bulawayo
speak of being overwhelmed with patients suffering burns,...
Harare : Anger tamed as economic reality sets in
The second day of an opposition-led general strike in Zimbabwe, to press for the release of delayed results of a presidential vote, was calmer...
Zimbabwe and Chinese soldiers cause stir as homes are burnt
A GROUP of Chinese soldiers caused a stir last night in the eastern
border city of Mutare as they patrolled the city centre along...
Somalia situation worse than thought
The humanitarian situation in Somalia is deteriorating faster than expected, owing to an unusually harsh dry season, rising insecurity and soaring inflation rates, the...
Zimbabwean army meets the press
The Zimbabwean army will not intervene against civilians after the disputed
March 29 poll and soldiers will remain in their barracks, Information Minister
Sikhoanyiso Ndlovu said...
Thabo Mbeki to meet Mugabe as pressure mounts
Embattled Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe Saturday snubbed a regional summit in Zambia, called to resolve a tense electoral impasse in his country, as pressure...
Zimbabwe : MDC calls for a general strike
An indefinite nationwide strike called for by the Movement for Democratic Change kicks off Tuesday until presidential results are released. Thirteen days after the...
Grenade attack at Rwanda genocide memorial
One policeman was killed Thursday when two unidentified men armed with hand grenades attacked the Gisozi Genocide Memorial in Rwanda's capital city of Kigali,...
Renewed protests in Kenya for a new cabinet
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki came under immense pressure to name a new cabinet on Tuesday, as the civil society held street protests to urge...