Kenya opposes President Bush’s power-sharing proposal
Kenyan government has thrown new obstacles to a power-sh aring accord expected to be reached on Tuesday, saying US proposals for a coalition government...
Volleyball Olympic qualifier: Kenya replaced by Puerto Rico
The world volleyball governing body, FIVB, has granted Puerto Rico a spot in this year's last Olympic qualifier tournament, after Kenya and Peru withdrew...
Mauritanian Premier profers post-slavery program
Mauritanian Premier, Zeine Ould Zeidane, disclosed Saturday afternoon, a program aimed at fighting the after-effects of slavery, by working for the definitive elimination of...
Two million infested with malaria in Burundi annually
Malaria affects between two million and 2.5 million people per year in Burundi, which makes it the first cause of mortality in the country,...
Egypt continues crackdown on opposition ahead local polls
The Egyptian government has continued its crackdown on the most powerful opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, ahead of upcoming munic i pal elections in...
Cameroon : Two journalists held incommunicado after trying to photograph homes of top politicians
Reporters Without Borders condemns the detention of Jean-Bosco
Talla, the deputy editor of the privately-owned weekly "Le Front", and one
of his reporters, Hervé Kémété. They...
Angola extradites MEND leader, associate to Nigeria
The Angolan government said it extradited the leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Henry Himomotin Okah (popularly called...
Kenya: coalition government to implement peace road map
The road map to a comprehensive solution to Kenya's post- election crisis has been rolled up with the formation of an international panel of...
Turkish president expected in Kinshasa on 28 February
Turkish president, Abdullah Gül, is expected on 28 F ebruary in Kinshasa at the head of a delegation of 120 businessmen, his special envoy,...
Niger : Fall in rate of female genital mutilation/cutting
The prevalence of female genital mutilation/cutting in Niger fell dramatically between 1998 and 2006, according to a recent government survey.
The prevalence of female...
Kenya: Nigerian to co-chair talks
Nigeria's career international diplomat and former Foreign Affairs Minister Oluyemi Adeniji has been proposed to co-chair Kenya's crisis talks as former United Nations Secretary...
Zimbabwe: Four Candidates to battle for presidency
Three opposition politicians in Zimbabwe on Friday registered to take on President Mugabe in a 29 March poll expected to be the toughest the...
Experts discuss counterfeit medicines in Africa
An international conference to discuss counterfeit medicines in Africa is currently underway in Johannesburg, South Africa. Sponsored by Pfizer, participants -- twenty customs officials,...
Zimbabwe: three election candidates nominated
Friday is the deadline for the registration of candidates nominated by their parties to stand for the March 29 general elections in Zimbabwe. It...
Inflation upsurge in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe
Barely a month ago, Zimbabwe made history by printing 10 million zimbabwean dollar notes to ease its cash crises. Bagfuls of cash were needed...
African information systems directors to meet
The second edition of the congress of information systems directors in Africa has been for 21-23 February in Marrakech, southern Morocco, PANA reported Friday....
Kenya: A new constitution ahead
Shortly after US president George Bush said that there must be an immediate halt to violence, while calling for justice for the victims of...
Germany donates €4m to fight HIV/AIDS in Sierra Leone
Germany has donated 4 million euros to Sierra Leone to boost the African nation's fight against HIV/AIDS. The donation was handed over to Sierra...
Namibia’s 3rd uranium mine ready in July
Namibia's third uranium mine, Treokkpje mine, will come on stream in July, with the company expecting to ship its first export in 2009, the...
UN fights Female Genital Mutilation in Sierra Leone
The United Nations Integrated Office in Sierra Leone (UNIOSIL) has called on the Government to apply a zero tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)....
10 bodies recovered from collapsed Lagos building
Ten bodies have been pulled out of the rubble of the two-storey building which collapsed in Nigeria's commercial city of Lagos Wednesday, rescue workers...
Mauritanian national football team appoints a new coach
The Mauritanian Football Association (FFRIM) on Thursday introduced Alain Moizan, a Franco-Senegalese, as the new coach of the senior national football team, the Mourabitounes....
Court denies granting bail to detained journalist in Niger
Niger's Court of Appeal in Niamey has denied granting ba il to a detained journalist, Moussa Kaka, a sub-regional media freedom watchdog, Media Foundation...
Gambian authorities revoke licence of mining company
Gambian government has revoked an operating license gran ted to a foreign mining company, Carnegie Minerals, and threatened possible lega l action against it,...
UK, Zambia enter into air agreement
Zambia and the United Kingdom have signed a Bilateral Air Services Agreement to allow European and Southern African airlines to enter their respective markets...
“Equality Now” urges UNODC forum to address sex trafficking
Equality Now, an international human rights organization, Thursday called on governments to make specific commitments to end sex trafficking. The organization said it was...
Storm kills eight in Mozambique
Storms in the Mozambican northern province of Nampul a have killed eight people and destroyed 809 houses and 80 classrooms, according to a report...
Kenyan rivals sign deal to end political deadlock
Kenya's rival political parties have signed a deal to end the country's political impasse which has persisted since the 27 December presidential and parliamentary...
Cameroon – Chad: Refugees from N’djamena still fearful of returning
Only a river separates N’djamena from Kousseri, Cameroon, where thousands fled last week’s violence. Fighting ended in Chad’s capital N'djamena almost a week ago...
Sudan: Hundreds of children missing after Darfur attack
Several days after Sudanese government-backed militia attacked villages in West Darfur, hundreds of children remain unaccounted for, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) said. "There...