Ban says Madagascar rivals should withdraw

Ban says Madagascar rivals should withdraw

UN leader Ban Ki-moon backed African calls for Madagascar strongman Andry Rajoelina and two rivals to withdraw from the country's presidential election in July. Ban criticized a ...

Obama to take first major Africa trip in late June

Obama to take first major Africa trip in late June

President Barack Obama will leave on a first African tour next month, visiting Senegal, Tanzania and South Africa, but his itinerary bypasses Kenya, an ancestral homeland. Obama ...

Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe has died

Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe has died

From 2009 until his death, he taught as the David and Mariana Fisher Professor of Literature at Brown University, US. Professor Achebe, who was a novelist, poet and critic, is most ...

Kony’s LRA has killed more than 100,000: UN

Kony’s LRA has killed more than 100,000: UN

The Lord's Resistance Army has killed more than 100,000 people during a reign of terror in Central Africa over the past 25 years, UN leader Ban Ki-moon said Monday. The guerrilla ...

Presidential limbo in Algeria a year before election

Presidential limbo in Algeria a year before election

Official silence about the health of Algeria's ailing leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika, hospitalised in France last month, has fed the rumour mill over presidential elections due in less ...

Regional leaders sign peace deal for eastern DR Congo

Regional leaders sign peace deal for eastern DR Congo

Regional African leaders signed a deal to try to bring peace to the war-torn east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, with plans to reinforce a UN-led mission to combat rebels ...

North Korea releases Chinese sailors: Xinhua

North Korea releases Chinese sailors: Xinhua

North Korea has released 16 Chinese fishermen and their boat, Chinese state-run media said Tuesday, after reports that armed assailants had taken the sailors hostage and demanded a ...

Ban says Madagascar rivals should withdraw

UN leader Ban Ki-moon backed African calls for Madagascar strongman Andry Rajoelina and two rivals to withdraw from the country's presidential election in July. Ban criticized a decision by Madagascar's electoral court to accept the candidacies of Rajoelina, Lalao Ravalomanana, wife of the leader ousted by  more...

May 21, 2013 at 1:32 am

Presidential limbo in Algeria a year before election

Official silence about the health of Algeria's ailing leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika, hospitalised in France last month, has fed the rumour mill over presidential elections due in less than a year. Calls have grown in the Algerian media for the constitution's rarely mentioned Article 88 to be applied, according  more...

May 20, 2013 at 8:58 pm

Marikana parties told to show leadership in settling dispute

South African Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant has appealed to the leadership of both unions in Lonmin to put the interests of the country and workers first, APA can report Sunday.Expressing concern at the troubling events that are unfolding in Lonmin's Marikana mine, which have led to the downing of tools  more...

May 19, 2013 at 12:39 pm

North Korea releases Chinese sailors: Xinhua

North Korea has released 16 Chinese fishermen and their boat, Chinese state-run media said Tuesday, after reports that armed assailants had taken the sailors hostage and demanded a ransom. "All the fishermen with the boat are safe on their way back," China's Xinhua news agency said, citing a Chinese embassy  more...

May 21, 2013 at 3:23 am

Ugandan wins international medical award

The government of Japan has awarded the Second Hideyo Noguchi Prize for Africa to Dr. Alex Godwin Coutinho of Uganda for his outstanding contributions in the medical services. Dr. Coutinho, a renowned Ugandan physician won the Prize for Medical Services for his pioneering efforts to expand access to  more...

May 16, 2013 at 3:12 pm

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