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Nigeria : Senate to review capital market laws
The Nigerian upper legislative chamber, the Senate, has pledged to review the country's investment laws as they affect the capital market in order to...
ANC planning to fire Thabo Mbeki before the end of his mandate
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe is set to be deployed to the cabinet within days —...
Nigerian university lecturers go on strike
Nigerian University teachers Monday began a one-week warning strike, to renew their demand for the reinstatement of their sacked 49 colleagues at the University...
Algeria : Heavy rioting in Algiers
The city of Chlef, Western Algiers, continues to be the scene of violent clashes between security forces and the local population against the abolition...
AU promotes peace ahead of 16th African athletics meet
Towards the forthcoming 16th African athletics championship, the African Union (AU) and the Confederation of African Athletes (CAA), have jointly organised for Tuesday, an...
Thabo Mbeki’ incendiary Freedom Day speech sparks controversy
President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa has stirred up controversy with a speech appearing to characterise the Western Cape as a place of...
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...
Three constituencies still waiting to vote in Zimbabwe
An independent candidate has filed an urgent court application to force Robert Mugabe and the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) to order elections in a...
A new environmental plan in Kenya
The Kenya Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources is developing a National Environmental Policy aimed at strengthening existing development strategies and sectoral policies for...
Alleged Muslim Brotherhood terrorists arrested in Egypt
Egypt has arrested two members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood for allegedly planning attacks against American and Israeli targets in Egypt with Hamas.
Egyptian officials...
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,...
Babies and children locked up in Zimbabwe prisons
Twenty-four babies and 40 children under the age of six are hold up in
Southerton Police cells after police raid MDC offices...
Morocco – UN : Western Sahara independence is unattainable
The personal envoy of the UN Secretary General for Western Sahara, Peter van Walsum, is of the view that the idea of the Wester...
Southern Africa to hold protest marches
South Africa’s labour movement and other civic groups are planning to stage weekly marches and protests against Robert Mugabe’s government they accuse of...
New Niger Delta plan to follow Canadian and South African models
The Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) in collaboration with some International experts have concluded arrangements to adopt the South African and Canadian models in...
Morocco : A plan to boost agriculture unveiled
Seeking to revive the agricultural sector in the face of an increasing global food crisis, the Moroccan government has decided to opt for a...
Nigerian President Yar’Adua and government get pay rise
The Nigerian National Assembly has approved an annual basic salary of N3.5 million (about US$ 30,000) for President Umaru Yar’Adua, according to Friday's edition...
Southern Africa could impose travel sanctions on Zimbabwe gov’t
The Southern African Development Community is showing signs of being fed up with Zimbabwe and has given Saturday as the day for the Zimbabwe...
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...
Zimbabwe : Activists seek arms embargo and sacking Mbeki
African civil rights activists have called for an urgent African Union (AU) Summit to take a decision on the post-election crisis in Zimbabwe, including...
Africa to refuse cargo flights from China to Zimbabwe in their airspace
South Africa's official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) Thursday called on the governments of Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and Zambia to deny overflight rights to cargo...
Nigerian senator’s financial scam draws attention from lawyer and senate
A Lagos lawyer, Mr. Festus Keyamo, Wednesday called on the Nigeria's anti-graft body, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to declare Senator Iyabo...
Egypt cracks down on illegal migrants
Egyptian police on Tuesday arrested 105 Eritrean illegal migrants who were attempting to sneak into the North African country from Sudan.
The arrests came as...
DR Congo detains teachers accused of planning to attack Rwanda
Twelve Congolese teachers serving in Rwanda have bee n detained at the National Intelligence Agency (ANR) in Bukavu, the South Kivu province in the...
Arms embargo on Zimbabwe advocated by Archbishop
The new Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, the Reverend Thabo Makgoba, Wednesday called on the UN Security Council to impose an arms...
Tsvangirai promises to protect Mugabe once in power
Zimbabwean opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), which claims it won last month's controversial presidential election, will not hurt President Robert Mugabe, when it...
Ban Ki-Moon assesses the recovery of Liberia
UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, Tuesday addressed the joint session of the Liberian Legislature, saying that he was in the country to assess the achievements...
Nigeria financial crimes commission searches for missing senator
The Nigerian Senate has asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to comply with all due processes of law in its search for...
China questioned about Zimbabwe arms ship
Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa has commended South Africa and Mozambique for not allowing their territories to be used to offload the heavy Chinese weaponry...