Africa
16 May 2012, 11:56
Amnesty International says armed Tuaregs and Islamists, who seized northern Mali after a coup, carried out grave rights abuses such as rape.
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16 May 2012, 09:10
More than 40 Angolan opposition supporters were killed and six injured in a road crash as they returned from a party meeting, police said.
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15 May 2012, 14:26
Africa needs to boost agricultural productivity and address the debilitating hunger that affects 27% of its population if it is to sustain its economic boom the UN says.
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15 May 2012, 12:52
An Indian special envoy is heading to South Sudan after holding talks in Khartoum following a UN Security Council resolution that seeks to end border fighting between Sudan and the South.
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15 May 2012, 14:53
Africa needs to boost agricultural productivity and deal with the hunger that affects its population if it is to sustain its economic boom.
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15 May 2012, 11:59
Sub-Saharan Africa posts economic growth rates higher than the worldwide average but has the planet’s greatest food security problems.
15 May 2012, 11:55
The DRC says it doesn't exclude transferring rebel leader Jean Bosco Ntaganda to the ICC, where he is wanted for alleged war crimes.
15 May 2012, 09:49
Concerns have been raised over the fast pace at which Clinix Healthcare Limited, has grown its outlets since January.
15 May 2012, 07:39
Gunmen surrounded villages in northeast Nigeria and set them ablaze, killing at least 12 people and wounding 48 others in violence.
14 May 2012, 14:24
Villagers in Burundi have hacked to death a woman accused of witchcraft and five members of her family, including a baby and two children.
14 May 2012, 14:22
Mutineers in the Democratic republic of Congo claim they have killed 26 loyalist troops in heavy fighting near the Rwandan border.
14 May 2012, 13:03
Scores of residents have fled heavy fighting between govt forces and army mutineers in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
14 May 2012, 10:12
An airlift of up to 15 000 ethnic South Sudanese aims to start from the Sudanese capital after a series of delays.
14 May 2012, 10:13
Somali youth tired of seeing their homeland portrayed as a war-torn zone have started making films to show a different side of their country.
14 May 2012, 07:18
Zimbabwe's state power company says it is implementing power cuts of at least nine hours a day as the winter season begins.
11 May 2012, 13:21
A month after handing power to civilians, Mali's ex-junta is resisting a return to barracks, threatening to disrupt a transition to democratic rule in Bamako while Islamists retain a firm hold on the north.
11 May 2012, 10:07
Lord's Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony will be captured or killed this year, the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor says.
11 May 2012, 07:42
Neither the UN nor the AU can impose its will on Sudan, President Omar al-Bashir said, after fresh fighting along the border with S Sudan.
11 May 2012, 07:42
Former UN secretary general Kofi Annan says African governments should commit to educating the continent’s bourgeoning youth population.
10 May 2012, 14:23
The families of a SA couple taken hostage by pirates in Somalia 19 months ago have received confirmation they are still alive, media reports.
10 May 2012, 14:13
A 25-ton arms cache has been found on the farm of the leader of a band of Congolese army mutineers, the wanted criminal Bosco Ntanganda.
10 May 2012, 11:24
Thousands of Mauritania opposition activists have staged a march and sit-down protest, calling for President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz to step down.
10 May 2012, 06:58
President Goodluck Jonathan said that West Africa will soon send a team to Guinea-Bissau for new talks on steering the coup-torn country.
09 May 2012, 14:18
Sudan and South Sudan are facing a UN deadline to pull troops back from their disputed border, as the South alleges violation of a ceasefire in effect since 04 May.
09 May 2012, 13:32
Sudan’s failure to agree with South Sudan on oil fees has cost the Sudanese economy $2.4 billion, the finance minister told parliament.