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Yahoo! News: World - Africa 13 Oct 2008 at 3:12pm AP - Disputes over land ownership and property boundaries are threatening to undermine Liberia's fragile peace, the nation's reconciliation body and the European Union warned Monday. 13 Oct 2008 at 2:52pm ![]() AP - President Robert Mugabe swore in two vice presidents Monday despite a deadlock in power-sharing talks with Zimbabwe's opposition movement, heightening tensions that are threatening to unravel the negotiations. 13 Oct 2008 at 2:51pm ![]() Reuters - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has sworn in two vice-presidents ahead of talks on forming a cabinet, a government official said on Monday, a move that could further endanger power-sharing negotiations. 13 Oct 2008 at 2:21pm ![]() AFP - Sudan's foreign ministry on Monday summoned the ambassadors of Kenya and Ethiopia over concerns their countries had shipped arms to the semi-autonomous South Sudan government, a ministry official said. 13 Oct 2008 at 12:52pm ![]() AFP - Africa has only one neurosurgeon for every 1.2 million people, a challenge topping the agenda at an international neurosurgery conference held in South Africa, organisers said Monday. 13 Oct 2008 at 11:56am ![]() AFP - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe swore in two vice presidents Monday, a senior official said, casting doubt on a new mediation effort to save a power-sharing deal with the opposition. 13 Oct 2008 at 10:54am ![]() AFP - A former member of a Rwandan militia group appeared in a Dutch court on Monday, accused of committing war crimes during the 1994 massacre of some 800,000 minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus in his homeland. 13 Oct 2008 at 9:37am ![]() AFP - Islamist insurgents attacked African Union peacekeepers in the Somali capital, triggering fierce clashes that killed a civilian and wounded five others, witnesses said on Monday. 13 Oct 2008 at 9:17am ![]() AFP - The EU on Monday condemned Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's "unilateral decision" to form a new government and threatened fresh sanctions unless he respects a power-sharing deal. 13 Oct 2008 at 9:01am ![]() AFP - Human Rights Watch urged Ethiopian lawmakers on Monday to reject legislation it says would slap major government restrictions on foreign aid groups and ban them from some activities. 13 Oct 2008 at 6:21am ![]() AFP - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe swore in his two vice presidents Monday, a senior government official said, despite an ongoing dispute with the opposition over a power-sharing deal. 12 Oct 2008 at 3:10pm ![]() AFP - Guinea and Mozambique filled the final slots Sunday as six months of 2010 World Cup-African Nations Cup second round qualifying drama ended. 12 Oct 2008 at 2:59pm ![]() AFP - The African Union will become more involved in finding a durable peace in conflict-torn Democratic Republic of Congo, its chief Jean Ping said Sunday as he wrapped up a three-day visit here. 12 Oct 2008 at 2:54pm ![]() AFP - First ladies from seven west African countries gather here Monday for a conference on ways to end female circumcision, a widespread practise in the region despite efforts to end it. 12 Oct 2008 at 10:25am ![]() AFP - Algeria announced it will spend 500 million euros (675 million dollars) on protecting towns from flooding as the death toll from floods this month rose to 43 on Sunday. |
Africa News latest RSS headlines - Big News Network.com 13 Oct 2008 at 7:01am Harare, Oct 13 (Xinhua) Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has threatened to pull out of a national unity government if President Robert Mugabe's party controls all the key ministries, media reported Monday. 13 Oct 2008 at 9:01am New Delhi, Oct 13 : Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Kamal Nath today said that that achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will acquire key importance in the overall framework of economic cooperation. 13 Oct 2008 at 6:01am New Delhi, Oct 13 : External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee today aid that India advocated for a strong India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) partnership for building a more inclusive and equitable global economic order. 13 Oct 2008 at 3:01am New York, Oct.13 : Even as the American economy seems to be in freefall, as Americans grapple with whether to vote for Obama, the first African American presidential nominee, or his Republican opponent, John McCain, it's a decision unavoidably colored by race, whether we like it - whether we admit it - or not. 13 Oct 2008 at 12:35pm DAKAR, 13 October 2008 (IRIN) - The cholera epidemic is still out of control across Guinea-Bissau, with the number of cases doubling in the past three weeks, bringing the total number of people strick... 13 Oct 2008 at 12:22pm JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Thabo Mbeki's spokesman says the former South African president is flying to Zimbabwe to help resolve a deadlock in power-sharing talks to end that country's crisis. ... 13 Oct 2008 at 12:19pm Gambians are celebrating a national holiday on Monday after President Yahya Jammeh declared the country needed to properly celebrate Saturday's 1-1 draw in Senegal. Despite missing out on qualificati... 13 Oct 2008 at 12:19pm A Rwandan Hutu, Joseph Mpambara, has pleaded not guilty before a Dutch court to charges of rape and murder during the Rwandan genocide 14 years ago. Prosecutors say he took part in the massacre of Tu... 13 Oct 2008 at 12:37pm Zimbabwean opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader and Prime Minister-designate Morgan Tsvangirai greets supporters at a rally in Harare on Sunday. Zimbabwe's opposition MDC will w... 13 Oct 2008 at 12:19pm Malawian civil servants with HIV, who used to receive an extra $35 a month to help them buy more food, are now to get a food handout instead. "The money may not be spent on what you intended it for... 13 Oct 2008 at 12:42pm Posted on: Monday, 13 October 2008, 09:00 CDT Text of report by South Africa-based ZimOnline website on 13 October [Report by Lizwe Sebatha: "Ministers' Relative Evicts 50 Families from Farm"] BULA... 13 Oct 2008 at 12:04pm The easy win lifted Brazil to second place in the South American group with 16 points, ahead of Argentina on goal difference and four behind Paraguay 13 Oct 2008 at 11:54am CAIRO [MENL] -- Al Qaida has returned to Sudan and was threatening U.S.interests. The U.S. embassy in Khartoum said Al Qaida has established a presence inSudan over the last year. In a warden message,... 13 Oct 2008 at 12:40pm Petronas, together with Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos de Moçambique (ENH), the national oil company of Mozambique, has been awarded the exploration and production concession contract (EPC... 13 Oct 2008 at 12:36pm 0 posts The results of tests conducted at the Special Pathogens Unit, National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) of the National Health Laboratory Service in Johannesburg, and at the Special ... NYT > Africa 13 Oct 2008 at 11:17am Thabo Mbeki, South Africa’s former president, planned to visit Zimbabwe to try to rescue the power-sharing deal. 13 Oct 2008 at 2:58pm The Sudanese government has arrested janjaweed militia leader Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-al-Rahman, charged by an international court with orchestrating mass murder in Darfur. 24 Sep 2008 at 11:22am A quarter to a third of all pregnant women on the subcontinent are infected with hookworm, a new analysis suggests. 30 Aug 2008 at 10:58am The suspension of the groups’ field operations deprived more than a million Zimbabweans of basic assistance, according to the nations that donated the aid. 4 Oct 2008 at 3:37pm A group of Algerian militants has been transformed from a nationalist insurgency to a potent ally of Al Qaeda. 11 Oct 2008 at 5:13pm Pirates hijacked a huge tanker off the Horn of Africa, even as world powers deployed military ships to the Somali coast to try to end a two-week standoff aboard another seized ship. 13 Oct 2008 at 2:37pm While the audacity of a band of Somali pirates who recently hijacked a ship has grabbed the world’s attention, the suffering of millions of Somalis seems to go unnoticed. 10 Oct 2008 at 12:04am Zimbabwe’s inflation rate, already one of the highest in world history, rose from an annual rate of 11 million percent in June to 231 million percent in July. 9 Oct 2008 at 1:07pm A well-known stalwart of the governing African National Congress took steps to break with the party and start another, arguing that the A.N.C. had turned its back on democracy. 9 Oct 2008 at 11:01pm The Somali pirates who hijacked an arms-laden Ukrainian freighter nearly two weeks ago may soon be getting their ransom. 8 Oct 2008 at 2:01am A mysterious disease that causes internal bleeding killed three people, prompting health officials to take precautions against any further contagion. 8 Oct 2008 at 2:01am More than 35 young women wearing tight trousers were arrested in South Sudan for disturbing the peace, senior police officials said. 7 Oct 2008 at 2:13am Among the 10 best-governed countries in sub-Saharan Africa are Mauritius, Seychelles and Cape Verde, according to a newly released index. 8 Oct 2008 at 1:51am Jerome R. Corsi, the conservative author of “The Obama Nation,” was being held for trying to work in Kenya without a valid work permit, according to media reports. 5 Oct 2008 at 1:31am Even pirates need to get their message out to the hungry press. |
Africa News 13 Oct 2008 at 2:18pm The Indonesian contingent will be based in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur and headquarters of the joint force, known as UNAMID, which has been lacking troops and police, as well as key assets, since it ... 13 Oct 2008 at 9:40am The National Union of Metalworkers of SA begins its Eighth National Congress in Vanderbijlpark outside Johannesburg today. 13 Oct 2008 at 5:14am There are many stories told of how Nelson Mandela saved the Springbok emblem from extinction, but the best is the tale of a meeting with Mluleki George, currently in divorce proceedings with the ANC but then a ... 13 Oct 2008 at 12:51am Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, locked in a standoff with the opposition in power-sharing talks, laid claim Saturday to all key ministries as he tries to retain his control of the struggling south African ... 12 Oct 2008 at 8:31pm A group of newly deployed African Union peacekeepers from Burundi patrolling the streets of Mogadishu yesterday MOGADISHU: More Burundian troops deployed in Mogadishu yesterday to bolster an African Union peace ... 12 Oct 2008 at 3:49pm A senior Fatah movement official on Saturday welcomed the acceptance by the Islamic movement Hamas of Egypt's plan for inter-Palestinian reconciliation that would end the current political rift. 12 Oct 2008 at 11:23am Somali forces raided one of the many ships hijacked off the country's coast Sunday as a deadline loomed in a standoff aboard another, arms-laden vessel, officials said. Troops in northern Somalia's semiautonomous Puntland region unsuccessfully tried to take back a ship that was taken over by pirates on Thursday, said Ali Abdi Aware, Puntland's foreign minister. He said two pirates were killed. The vessel, which carrying cement, is believed to have Syrian and Somali crew on board. 'Our forces are chasing the ship and we hope to rescue it,' Aware said in a telephone interview from Puntland, a hotbed of piracy. 12 Oct 2008 at 6:51am "I have come to meet with Congolese authorities to understand the situation on the ground before putting forward solutions," Ping told reporters on his arrival in the country on Friday. 12 Oct 2008 at 2:32am ANC former chairman Mosiuoa Lekota urged South Africans to join the campaign to defend the constitution against attacks by new ruling party leaders. 11 Oct 2008 at 9:49pm Oct. 11: A Russian soldier stands guard in front of Neustrashimy missile frigate, one of the three Russian warships including a nuclear-powered missile cruiser, which have called on the Libyan port of Tripoli, ... 11 Oct 2008 at 5:19pm Graca Machel, a Mozambican human rights campaigner and the country's former first lady, appealed to schools Saturday to take more action to prevent children being kidnapped and sold into prostitution. Machel, who is married to former South African President Nelson Mandela, said Mozambique was targeted by child traffickers because it did too little to protect the young. 'The vulnerability of many schools arises from the fact that they are not protected by walls or fences, and have no security guards. Anyone can enter,' she told The Associated Press. 11 Oct 2008 at 12:51pm ADDIS ABABA - The global financial crisis could hamper efforts to alleviate hunger in Africa, the U.N. Economic Commission for Africa said Friday.Parts of the continent have been hit by drought ... 11 Oct 2008 at 8:17am They come from a failed state whose people are desperately poor. So how have Somali pirates managed to take control of large commercial ships and hold them for days, even weeks? A reader's curiosity about the ... 11 Oct 2008 at 3:51am Libya will withdraw $7 billion of assets in Swiss banks, cut economic ties with Switzerland and stop supplying it with oil to protest against poor treatment of Libyan diplomats and businessmen, Libyan news ... 10 Oct 2008 at 11:14pm By Joe Bavier KINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila named Budget Minister Adolphe Muzito as prime minister on Friday, according to a presidential decree read out on state television. Muzito, 51, replaces his Unified Lumumbist Party (PALU) leader Antoine Gizenga, who retired last month ahead of his 83rd birthday on October 5. Muzito has earned praise from diplomats and donors for his fiscal discipline in pushing through austere budgets for Congo following years of political turmoil and a devastating 1998-2003 war that left much of the country's infrastructure in ruins. |
BBC News | Africa | World Edition 13 Oct 2008 at 4:59am A Sudanese militia leader wanted by the International Criminal Court over war crimes in Darfur is in custody, a minister confirms. 13 Oct 2008 at 8:05am Ex-South African President Thabo Mbeki is due in Harare to try and salvage the power-sharing deal he brokered last month. 13 Oct 2008 at 10:14am Malawian civil servants with HIV, who used to receive an extra $35 a month, are now to get a food handout instead. 13 Oct 2008 at 11:38am A Rwandan Hutu pleads not guilty before a Dutch court to charges of rape and murder during the 1994 genocide. 13 Oct 2008 at 8:34am South African civic organisations demand an inquiry into the UN refugee agency's handling of May's xenophobic attacks. 12 Oct 2008 at 6:25am Aid agencies dispute the Ethiopian government's estimates of those suffering in the country's drought. 11 Oct 2008 at 5:45am A new rebel group threatens the key town of Bunia in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. 11 Oct 2008 at 1:49pm At least 15 people are hurt in a stampede during Ghana's World Cup qualifier against Lesotho. 10 Oct 2008 at 4:56pm Somali pirates holding a Ukrainian cargo ship carrying military tanks threaten to blow it up if they are not paid a ransom. 13 Oct 2008 at 9:37am Gambians are celebrating a national holiday after President Yahya Jammeh declared the country needed to properly celebrate Saturday's 1-1 draw in Senegal. 13 Oct 2008 at 7:28am The chairman of the Ghana FA Kwesi Nyantakyi says local organisers of security and ticketing were responsible for the overcrowding in Sekondi, where 15 were injured. 12 Oct 2008 at 3:20pm Guinea and Mozambique take the last places in the last round of 2010 qualifying, as Egypt beat Djibouti in the final game of the day. 12 Oct 2008 at 8:37am Guinea take the last remaining place in the second group phase of qualifying for the 2010 World and Africa Cup of Nations. 13 Oct 2008 at 1:10pm Thabo Mbeki fights to save his peace legacy in Zimbabwe 13 Oct 2008 at 3:45am Pictures of refugees hit by Darfur militias and Chad rebels |