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Chinese arms ship not welcome in Africa
Zimbabwean authorities yesterday said the cash-strapped government
has a right to buy arms from any legal source as long as they are
needed to...
Ethiopia accuses Qatar of terrorist funding and severs ties
Ethiopia Monday announced it had broken diplomatic ties with Qatar, accusing the Middle East country of causing instability in the Horn of Africa.
"This decision...
African observers say vote recount is heavily flawed
A South African member of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) observer team Monday said the recount of votes in a number of constituencies...
Planned Egypt strike to coincide with Mubarak birthday
The Egyptian opposition is gearing up for a 5 May general strike to coincide with President Hosni Mubarak's 80th birthday, according to opposition groups.
Opposition...
SADC ignores Zimbabwe issue
Norway and the European Union on Sunday urged southern African leaders to resolve the political crisis in Zimbabwe as their credibility was at stake....
Presidents and UN secretary in Ghana to discuss Zimbabwe and Darfur
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon arrived in Accra on Saturday night on the first-leg of a four-nation West African tour, during which he will participate...
The health of Nigerian President Yar’Adua creates uproar
Nigeria's main opposition Action Congress (AC) party has criticised the federal government for mismanaging the information on the health of President Umaru Yar'Adua, who...
Mbeki a longtime Mugabe ally …
South African President Thabo Mbeki has been lampooned and condemned across the world for saying there is "no crisis" in Zimbabwe on his brief...
Rwanda : arrest warrants for presumed genocide perpetrators
Rwanda has issued international arrest warrants against Burundians presumed to have been involved in the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi ethnic community of this...
Morocco buys a french navy ship
French Prime Minister, François Fillon, announced on Friday in Rabat that his country would sell to Morocco one multi-mission frigate estimated at 500 million...
Cop ‘toasting’ Journalist beaten, bailed and charged
Chinyeke Tembo, a Malawian freelance journalist who was arrested Thursday for calling a lady police officer 'beautiful', was Friday charged with 'insulting the modesty...
Odinga, Kenya PM asks Africa to pressure Mugabe
Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Odinga has urged Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to show leadership and work with the opposition to solve the country's post-election...
Jimmy Carter disregards US warning and meets with Hamas
Former American President Jimmy Carter went against both governments of Israel and the US when he met with senior Hamas leaders Thursday after the...
Zimbabwe : Old Mugabe forgets elections as he condemns Britain
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, speaking in public for the first time since last month's disputed election, Friday sharply castigated former colonial master Britain for...
Russian President Putin visits Kadhafi in Libya
Libyan Leader Muammar Kadhafi Wednesday held a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who began a two-day official visit at the head of a...
South Africa’s unexpected move against Mugabe
South Africa's government today shocked the world when it called for the first time for the rapid release of results from Zimbabwe's presidential...
Chinese ship carrying arms for Zimbabwe docks at Durban port
A Chinese ship, whose cargo is believed to include arms for Zimbabwe, had been cleared to dock and offload its cargo at Durban's port,...
Algeria begins a 15 day census
The 5th general population and housing census (RGPH5) in Algeria started on Tuesday with 60,000 census officer and supervisors being involved in the 15-day...
Egypt jails 25 members of Muslim Brotherhood
An Egyptian military tribunal Wednesday sentenced 25 leading members of the country's powerful Muslim Brotherhood to jail terms ranging from 18 months to 10...
South Africa : ANC distances itself further from Thabo Mbeki
The ANC in South Africa strongly believes Robert Mugabe knows exactly what the election results are and have said the delay in making them...
Ivory Coast : Set election date commended
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Côte d'Ivoire ( UNOCI) on Monday welcomed the announcement that the much delayed presidential elections would now be...
Kenya : Grand opposition to check grand coalition
Kenyan parliamentarians have begun talks on the formation of a "Grand Opposition" party to avoid the possibility of what they termed a "grand dictatorship"...
Nigerian gorvenor loses his job by court order
The Appeal Court sitting in Port Harcourt, capital of Nigeria's oil-rich Rivers state, Tuesday nullified the election of Timipre Sylva of the neighbouring Bayelsa...
US actively involved in the search for genocide suspects
The US is strongly committed to contributing to the arrest of 96 Rwandan genocide suspects who have taken refuge in several Western countries, US...
SADC calls for the immediate release of election results
Heads of state and government of Southern African Development Community (SADCC) have called for the "expeditious" release of the results from Zimbabwe's presidential election,...
Thabo Mbeki under fire for lopsided comments on Zimbabwe crisis
South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki has come under intense criticism in South Africa for publicly stating that there was no crisis in Zimbabwe.
Mbeki who...
Zimbabwe : Court order to release results could be rejected by Mugabe
The High Court in Zimbabwe was Monday expected to make an eagerly-awaited ruling on an opposition petition to force the country's electoral body to...
Kenya : Full list of coalition government ministers
The following is the who's who (party by party) in the newly-unveiled coalition cabinet in Kenya.
Mwai Kibaki (PNU) - President
Office of the President -...
Kenya announces coalition cabinet ministers
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki demoted some of his allies, brought in new ministers, and left a few ministries to his former opponents in 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...