African leaders Saturday marked the African Union's 50th birthday against a backdrop of economic growth, despite persistent armed conflicts and the new shadow of the threat of terrorism. AU Chairman and Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn was optimistic as he launched extravagant celebrations urging leaders to "create a continent free from poverty and conflict, and an Africa whose citizens enjoy a ...

Champions Kaizer Chiefs completed a South African double Saturday by defeating SuperSport United 1-0 in the FA Cup final. National team midfielder Bernard Parker scored the only goal at Moses Mabhida Stadium four minutes into extra time. A capacity 55,000 crowd in the Indian Ocean city of Durban saw the diminutive star fire the ball past Ronwen Williams from just outside the box. Holders SuperSport came ...

The ‘Compagnie bancaire de l'Afrique de l'Ouest' (CBAO) a subsidiary of the Moroccan-based Attijariwafa Bank, on Saturday inaugurated in Dakar, its training academy, “ a business school for Senegal and its subsidiaries in the sub-region”.Abdelkerim, the administrator and general manager of the group in Senegal explained that the "the school is a source of development and competence building, and respectively ...

Morne Steyn became the leading Super 15 points scorer this season by kicking six penalties as Northern Bulls edged Coastal Sharks 18-16 in a thriller Saturday. The experienced Bulls fly-half came face to face with Patrick Lambie, the younger Sharks playmaker who replaced him in the Springboks team last season. And Steyn won the individual goal-kicking battle by seven points with Lambie landing three ...

Nine members of Mozambique's Riot police were injured in a Friday shoot out with armed members of the rebel turned political Renamo party in the opposition's stronghold of Sofala province (centre), officials confirmed on Saturday.The district administrator of Gorongosa, Paulo Jacunene, confirmed the incident, adding he was unaware of the reasons that let the the shoot-out. Armed attacks on police stations ...

Mozambique on Saturday began the voter registration exercise (25th May-23rd July) for the new electoral roll, with Prime Minister Alberto Vaquina calling all Mozambicans aged 18 and above in the country's 53 municipalities, to register as voters so that they can take part in the municipal elections scheduled for 20 November, APA has observed. The registration which began on Saturday is in only in 43 ...

The chief imam of the Fayçal mosque of Conakry, Elhadj Mamadou Saliou Camara, issued a statement calling on Guinean political stakeholders to exercise restraint and engage dialogue in the wake of the political demonstrations, in which at least eight have been killed, three more injured and a lot of properties damaged.Imam Camara, a highly respected personality in Guinea, on Saturday invited all sides to ...

The African Union (AU) said on Saturday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on the sidelines of the OAU/AU golden jubilee, that it will provide US$2.98 million for a variety of humanitarian, development and peace-building projects in Darfur, western Sudan. This development follows the signing by the AU commission of an agreement with the Joint AU-UN Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID). These funds, originally part of a ...

Balama Mali Gubio lost phone contact with his relatives 10 days ago, like many residents in this region of Nigeria caught between a military offensive and Islamist extremist attacks. "I don't know what is happening to my parents, my brothers, my sister," the 62-year-old spokesman for a forum of prominent local elders told AFP in the garden of his expansive home in the city of Maiduguri. The military cut ...

A try by Springbok skipper Jean de Villiers made the difference as Western Stormers edged Queensland Reds 20-15 Saturday in a tense Super 15 tussle. After a first half that produced only three points at windy Newlands, a brilliant try by the veteran lifted a game between South African and Australian sides with very different agendas. Fly-half Elton Jantjies launched the move on 44 minutes with a cross-field ...