Africa News

Sudan's political parties accused each other of widespread fraud and intimidation as voters began to register for the oil-producing state's first multi-party elections in 24 years due in April 2010.

Security forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo have arrested about 100 armed men blamed for killing dozens of policemen in an attack in the country's isolated north last month, the government said today.

London, Nov 8 : Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher's son became a spy for South Africa in a bid to avoid being prosecuted for his alleged involvement in a failed coup in Equatorial Guinea, a newspaper reported Sunday.

ZIMBABWE Prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai has appealed to President Robert Mugabe and his ZANU-PF party to treat him as equal partner in the power sharing government.

CHINA'S premier on Sunday pledged US$10 billion in concessional loans to African nations over the next three years and said Beijing would cancel the government debts of some of the poorest of those countries, as the Asian powerhouse looked to deflect criticism that its investments in the continent were motivated purely by greed.

The medical charity was vaccinating thousands of children against measles on October 17 at seven sites in the rebel-held Masisi district in eastern DR Congo when the national army launched attacks Nov 6, 2009 7:59 PM By Sapa-AFP Doctors Without Borders today said it was "used as bait" by the Democratic Republic of Congo's army in attacks on rebels ...

The African Union has implemented sanctions on Guinea's military rulers, AU Peace and Security Commissioner Ramtane Lamamra said Saturday.

The Old Etonian and ex-SAS soldier was pardoned from his 34-year sentence for his part in a bungled coup in Equatorial Guinea and returned to Britain on Wednesday.

An international body charged with stopping the illicit trade in diamonds that fuel conflict has decided not to suspend Zimbabwe, officials said Friday, though its investigators had concluded that Zimbabwe's military had organized smuggling syndicates with the government's permission and used "extreme violence" against illegal miners.

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.