Africa News

Archbishop Desmond Tutu has commended government's decision to cancel an order for military aircraft, his office said today.

China is offering to abolish import duties on some commodities from Africa and make sure Chinese exports to the continent are safe as part of a package to boost already thriving economic ties, China's commerce minister said in an article published Saturday.

Madagascar's rival political leaders have agreed to form a power-sharing government after months of wrangling.

The ICC is pushing to bring to justice those responsible for the post-election violence in Kenya.

There was no word on Friday on the return to South Africa of four mercenaries pardoned this week by the government of Equitorial Guinea.

Africa's efforts to meet the global anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals by their 2015 deadline are threatened by the impact of the global financial crisis on the continent's economies, said Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro.

Zimbabwe's transport ministry says one of the national airline's planes collided with five wild pigs on the runway in the capital during takeoff.

The International Criminal Court says the war crimes trial of former Congo Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba will begin in April.

South Africaa TMs athletics body Thursday apologized to 800-metre champion Caster Semenya, her parents and the nation about its role in the handling of the athletea TMs gender row.

Malawi threatened on Thursday to arrest protesting villagers blocking construction of Madonna's multi-million dollar girls academy, a new controversy for the singer in the African country where she has adopted two children.

Somali courtship was different in Hassan Aden's day. When he was a teenager, you gave the girl's parents 11 camels and an AK-47 assault rifle as bride price and then waited respectfully.

Caption: The clashes left some 1,300 people dead and forced 300,000 from their homes.

Investigators for the world's diamond control body say Zimbabwe should be suspended because its security forces are raping women, killing illegal miners and smuggling gems out of a diamond field in the troubled country's east.

Southern African leaders must pressure Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's party to end human rights abuses when they meet to discuss the current impasse in the country's unity government, a rights body said on Wednesday.

Nov 4 - A wealthy British mercenary has arrived back home after being pardoned in Equatorial Guinea for trying to overthrow the President of the oil-rich African nation.

The Swiss government on Wednesday suspended a deal to repair its damaged relations with Libya until two Swiss citizens held in the Arab country are allowed to return home.

The Kimberley Process, which is an initiative intended to stem the flow of conflict diamonds, may decide to suspend Zimbabwe from its ranks.

Dancers clad in animal skins opened a royal ceremony Tuesday, a nod to tradition for the forward-thinking kings, queens and chiefs who jetted in to Johannesburg from across Africa to launch an institute they hope will expand their roles on the continent The two dozen leaders from Morocco to Swaziland describe their new Institute of African Royalty ...

President Barack Obama's half brother has broken his media silence to discuss his new novel - the semi-autobiographical story of an abusive parent patterned on their late father, the mostly absent figure Obama wrote about in his own memoir.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton ,right, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu react during a press conference in Jerusalem.