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Egypt : Isreal and Hamas hit the wall
The Palestinian Islamist movement, Hamas, appealed to Cairo on Tuesday to back them in their refusal to release the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit --...
New Zimbabwe presidential run-off date flouts constitution
Zimbabwe's interim justice minister, Patrick Chinamasa, has announced that a presidential election runoff is to be held 90 days from May 2, which was...
Anti-Terrorist squads in major cities to ward off Al Qaeda threats
The Nigeria police high command has deployed crack anti-terrorist squads to key cities, including the commercial city of Lagos, the inland capital city of...
Ordinary Zimbabweans feel the strain of an economic rot
Zimbabwean government last night suspended import duty on some basic commodities, including cooking oil and flour, in response to a sharp spike in prices...
South Africa : Two immigrants killed in Jo’burg xenophobic attacks
Tensions are running high in Johannesburg, South Africa, after a series of attacks on immigrants in Alexandra township north of the city.
Police said two...
Over 100 rebel suspects arrested in Sudan
The Sudanese government has arrested more than 100 suspected supporters of a Darfur rebel group which attacked capital, Khartoum and its suburbs on Saturday,...
Egypt hosts ITU Telecom Africa conference
The 2008 edition of the ITU Telecom Africa conference has started off in Egypt, with about 200 companies from 45 nations attending.
The 12-15 May...
Egyptian gov’t blocks opposition web site ahead of telecom conference
Egypt's leading opposition movement, Kefaya's (Enough), web site has been blocked by the government-controlled T-Data internet provider. The nation's largest web company has been...
More attacks in Khartoum feared following Turabi’s arrest
The Islamist opposition leader, Hassan al-Turabi, and at least four other important members of his party are reported to have been arrested as the...
South African President Thabo Mbeki asked to leave office
The opposition Democratic Alliance in South Africa has told President Thabo Mbeki to go and now.
from our Southern Africa correspondent
DA...
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe swathed in ‘legal’ corruption
Zimbabwe’s Reserve Bank boss Gideon Gono is struggling to stay out of
trouble. This time the controversial governor is embroiled in shares grab that has...
Diplomatic rift as Zambia reponds to Zimbabwe insults
The Zambian government has criticised Zimbabwe for continually heaping abuses on Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa, only to turn around and request his assistance in...
Mozambique murder trial continues
The trial before the Maputo City Court of six men accused of the 1999 attempted murder of lawyer Albano Silva took an unexpected turn...
Rabat, Morocco hosts African conference on migration
The Moroccan capital, Rabat, will on 22 May host an African parliamentary conference on migration, a communiqué issued by the Moroccan parliament in Rabat...
Missing Nigerian aircraft : President orders arrests
Nigeria's President Umaru Yar'Adua has ordered the arrest and interrogation of four key officials of the National Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), over their roles...
Sierra Leone gov’t closes opposition radio station
Sierra Leone's opposition "Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) Radio Unity FM 94.0 has unceremoniously gone off air.
The opposition Party accused the ruling All People's...
Mugabe : The beggar’s choice
Zimbabwe’s losing presidential candidate, Robert Mugabe, has set tough
conditions before the election runoff can take place, insisting that the MDC first call on the...
Tsvangirai not to betray Zimbabweans
Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe’s opposition leader, on Saturday sought to reclaim the initiative in his country’s political crisis, saying he would return to his homeland...
South African farmers condemn land reform programme
Small-scale farmers from the Western and Northern Cape provinces in South Africa marched to Parliament on Friday in protest against government's "sluggish" land reform...
MP’s mother abducted in Nigeria
The rising spate of kidnapping for ransom continued in Nigeria's oil rich Niger Delta region Friday, with the abduction of the mother of the...
Horrific recounts of terror and desperation in Zimbabwe
On Friday, I spent the whole day in Plumtree area, a border town with Botswana where I heard horrific accounts. Villagers I spoke to,...
Al Qaeda terrorists eye Nigeria
Nigeria's top cop, Mike Okiro, has alleged plans by the global terrorist group Al-Qaeda to bomb some parts of the country, and has therefore...
Zambia seizes corrupt properties in Belgium to fund health sector
The Zambian government has disclosed it earned about 13.6 billion Kwacha from the sale of seized properties and that the money will be spent...
Thabo Mbeki goes to Zimbabwe again
South African President Thabo Mbeki was due in Zimbabwe Friday for crisis talks with President Robert Mugabe over an election impasse and politically-motivated violence...
Angola urges Zambia to help find solution to Zimbabwe’s political crisis
A visiting Angolan government official, Nilsa Batalhia, has urged Zambian President levy Mwanawasa not to relent in his efforts to find an amicable solution...
Tens of thousands of local Zimbabwean farmers violently removed
An estimated 40 000 farm workers and their dependants have been violently removed from farms countrywide rendering them homeless and ZANU-PF ...
Soccer stakeholders in Sierra Leone want national congress
Football stakeholders nationwide have called on the president of the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA), Nahim Khadi, and his executive to immediately summon a...
European MPs and illigal immigrants protest in Brussels
Several hundred illegal immigrants supported by European MPs as well as humanitarian NGOs, trade unions and students, demonstrated on Wednesday before the European parliament...
Embattled Malawi president calls opposition to a crisis meeting
Embattled Malawi president Bingu wa Mutharika, whose minority government has come under pressure in the opposition-dominated 193-member parliament, on Wednesday called opposition leaders to...
Foreign Exchange rates skyrocket in Zimbabwe
Exchange rates in Zimbabwe, artificially fixed by the government for a long time, shot up sharply on Wednesday after the central bank liberalised them...