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The decision at the African Union summit says AU members "shall not cooperate" with the court in The Hague "in the arrest and transfer of President Omar al-Bashir of the Sudan to the ICC." Sudan welcomed the move, and other Africans said it was a signal to the West that it shouldn't impose its ways on Africa.

Several hundred South Africans gathered on Friday for a moonwalking tribute to the King of Pop that reflected the diversity of the rainbow nation.

An investigation is under way following the discovery of a man's body in the undercarriage of a plane after it arrived from Africa, police have said.

A severely bruised young girl believed to be the only survivor of an Indian Ocean plane crash flew back Thursday to Paris, where she was embraced gently by her father, who tried to lift her spirits with a joke.

Fighting in the Somali capital has killed 25 people over two days, leaving corpses in the streets of a city where a bloody insurgency is intensifying, doctors and witnesses said Thursday.

Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai of Zimbabwe has announced that Harare has accepted a credit line of US$950 million from China.

Elections in Guinea-Bissau to replace assassinated President Joao Bernardo Vieira are to go to a second round, the electoral commissioner says.

The Air France plane that crashed into the Atlantic last month hit the water intact and at high speed, but was missing for six hours before an emergency was declared.

Government has called on public service doctors to end their strike and return to work immediately, saying their dispute is doing "considerable harm" to the sector.

ANC Youth League President Julius Malema has called on South Africa's mines to be nationalised, according to an article in the Sowetan on Thursday.

By Julian Guyer London - The International Rugby Board has vowed to "eradicate" the "particularly heinous" act of eye-gouging. Wednesday's announcement by the global governing body comes following the controversy caused by Springbok back-row Schalk Burger's eye-gouge on British and Irish Lions wing Luke Fitzgerald in the first minute of last ...

A senior official in Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's party will stand trial in Zimbabwe in October on terrorism charges, his lawyer said Wednesday.

African crises escalate as AU leaders meet - 1.4 million homeless so far this year in DRC, Sudan and Somalia 01 Jul 2009 05:35:00 GMT Source: Oxfam GB - UK Oxfam Website: http:/ / www.oxfam.org.uk Five people forced to flee every minute of 2009 in DRC, Sudan and Somalia, says Oxfam --------- Over 1.4 million people have been forced to flee their ...

The Yemenia Airbus 310 that crashed into the Indian Ocean near Comoros may have been attempting a go-around in rough weather for another approach when it hit the sea, a pilots association says.

MOGADISHU: Somalia's rebels threatened on Tuesday to attack Ethiopia after repeated witness reports that Ethiopian troops were back in the chaotic Horn of Africa country they withdrew from in January.

Iran's Fars news agency says that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will not attend the African Union summit in Libya as was expected.

An international scam targeting U.S. state governments managed to rake in more than $3 million, including nearly $1 million from West Virginia, before it was caught, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

Cameroon's long-ruling president, Paul Biya, sacked his prime minister and reshuffled his cabinet, replacing key officials including the defense minister.

Published: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 5:10 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 5:10 a.m. DIEPSLOOT, South Africa - The two robbery suspects had already been viciously beaten, their swollen faces stained with rivulets of red.

A Yemenia jet with 153 people on board crashed into the Indian Ocean on Tuesday as it tried to land during strong winds on the island nation of Comoros.