UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a new peacekeeping force for South Sudan on Friday...
KINSHASA, Congo — Official from regional airline says Congo passenger plane has crashed; death toll unknown. Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material...
JUBA, Sudan — The people of South Sudan finally get their own country on Saturday, an emotional independence celebration few thought possible during a half century...
JOHANNESBURG — A prominent Swaziland democracy activist says the tiny nation’s economic crisis could spur democratic change, and lobbied Thursday for neighboring South Africa to deny...
He used to be dismissed as an ignorant buffoon, whose populist ranting and colourful racist tirades usefully filled newspaper column inches on a dull day. But...
In Uganda, where grasshoppers are regarded as a delicious seasonal snack, the appetite for the crispy critters has created a booming informal trade that has turned...
African nations will not execute an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant issued for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, an African Union summit decided Friday. The summit...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — An Ethiopian official says nine people were arrested last week on suspicions of organizing a terrorist network and planning attacks. Government spokesman...
MALABO, Equatorial Guinea — Organizers printed Moammar Gadhafi’s portrait and mounted it on one of the flags decorating the road to the African Union summit venue...
LONG a symbol of stagnation, the African continent is experiencing a reawakening. Poverty and hunger are still widespread problems, but Africa’s growing middle class is creating...
UNITED NATIONS — The Security Council has extended the mandate of the 19,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping force in Congo for a year, saying any force reduction should...
MBABANE, Swaziland — Cash-strapped Swaziland’s state hospitals have only two months’ supplies of AIDS drugs, the country’s health minister has told parliament in an assessment that...
Safaricom subscribers can now search for and reconnect with their loved ones using their mobile phone via an application provided by Ericsson and Refugees United. The...
In a bid to ease the activities of the judicial sector in the country, courts will, from next month, be digitally interlinked. In an interview with...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - A new Nelson Mandela book, slim, bound in black and set in eye-straining type, looks a bit like a bible or a prayer...
NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya’s prime minister has paid more than $37,000 in back taxes to abide by a new constitution that requires lawmakers to pay taxes...
BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) - Winfrey is to receive an honorary doctorate from a South African University know for tense racial relations as a sign of...
ARUSHA, Tanzania — The U.N. Court trying suspects of the 1994 Rwanda genocide found a female former government minister and her son guilty of war crimes...
Shortly before she was hired in 2009 as the first female coach of Nigeria’s powerful women’s national soccer team, Eucharia Uche said at a seminar that...
The U.N. Security Council will take up a draft resolution that would establish an interim peacekeeping force for the disputed border region of Abyei, U.S. Ambassador...
From BBC: Senegal’s President Abdoulaye Wade has dropped some of his planned constitutional changes, officials say. He no longer wants to reduce the proportion of votes...
Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi accuses Nato of murder, two days after members of the family of a close aide were killed in an air strike.
KHARTOUM, Sudan — Sudan’s president threatened Wednesday to block pipelines in the south if the government there doesn’t pay to transit oil or share it with...
