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3 Feb 2012 at 11:09pm
Reuters - Sudanese rebels said they are looking for ways to hand over 29 Chinese workers held in the border state of South Kordofan, Chinese state media said, as Sudan's government confirmed the death of one worker in a firefight.
3 Feb 2012 at 5:48pm
Reuters - A leading senator warned Egypt's military-led government on Friday that "the days of blank checks are over" as an Egyptian army team huddled with State Department officials to discuss the future of $1.3 billion in annual U.S. military aid.
3 Feb 2012 at 5:43pm
Reuters - A shoot-out among South Sudanese security forces using truck-mounted machineguns killed 37 people and injured a United Nations policeman Wednesday, U.N. and government officials said Friday.
3 Feb 2012 at 2:52pm
 Reuters - Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said Friday tensions with South Sudan over oil transit payments could lead to war between the two countries.
3 Feb 2012 at 12:29pm
 Reuters - Rock-throwing protesters fought riot police through clouds of tear gas near Egypt's Interior Ministry on a second day of clashes triggered by the deaths in Port Said of 74 people - the country's worst soccer disaster.
3 Feb 2012 at 11:58am
Reuters - South Sudan's oil minister was riled when he discovered production from one of his remote oil fields was out by 40,000 barrels per day, and immediately knew who to blame.
3 Feb 2012 at 11:43am
 AP - Sudan's military bombed a Bible school built by a U.S. Christian aid group, prompting students and teachers at the school to run for their lives in the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan state.
3 Feb 2012 at 11:31am
Reuters - Two American women kidnapped by gunmen in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Friday were released into army custody a few hours later, security sources said.
3 Feb 2012 at 11:10am
AP - A U.N. staff member was shot during a clash that broke out as officials met to discuss a weekend cattle raid massacre that left 78 people dead, including many women and children, U.N. officials said Friday.
3 Feb 2012 at 8:45am
Reuters - As explosions reverberated from the hills near Gharyan, a group met in a college auditorium to hear how one party wants to ensure democracy takes root in Libya.
3 Feb 2012 at 6:34am
 AP - More than 110 people were missing Friday after a ferry sank off Papua New Guinea's east coast, and rescuers feared many had been trapped inside.
3 Feb 2012 at 6:07am
Reuters - A Libyan diplomat who served as ambassador to France for Muammar Gaddafi died from torture within a day of being detained by a militia from Zintan, Human Rights Watch said in a statement on Friday.
2 Feb 2012 at 1:13pm
 Reuters - Egyptians incensed by the deaths of 74 people in soccer violence clashed with security forces on Thursday during protests against the army-led government for failing to prevent the deadliest incident since the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak.
2 Feb 2012 at 12:34pm
Reuters - The World Bank said on Thursday that Egypt has asked for a $1 billion loan and it will launch talks with government representatives to iron out the details.
2 Feb 2012 at 12:22pm
 AP - Egypt's benchmark stock index fell over 2 percent Thursday, paring an earlier plunge stemming from deadly soccer riots the night before that left 74 dead and rekindled fears of fresh instability akin to the unrest that has battered the country and its economy in the year since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak.
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3 Feb 2012 at 1:09pm
CAIRO - Three people were killed as thousands of angry protesters clashed with security forces in Egypt's capital Cairo and other cities for a second day Friday over the deaths of 74 football fans on
3 Feb 2012 at 1:24pm
NAIROBI, Kenya - A good harvest and food aid inflows have improved the situation in Somalia, the United Nations said Friday declaring that the country is out of "famine" situation, while underlining n
3 Feb 2012 at 7:18pm
The United Nations is backing a mass vaccination campaign under way in northern Cameroon, where a new outbreak of yellow fever has killed at least seven people.
3 Feb 2012 at 7:17pm
The head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI) said today that he hopes to decide next week on the partial certification of parliamentary elections held in the West Afric
3 Feb 2012 at 7:15pm
The United Nations declared an end to famine conditions in Somalia today, but warned that the crisis in the Horn of Africa is not over and requires continued efforts to restore food security and help
3 Feb 2012 at 5:16pm
China has long adhered to a foreign policy of non-interventionism, where it tries to appear neutral in disputes outside its borders. As the country becomes more of a global power, however, it is less
3 Feb 2012 at 5:16pm
Uganda has signed two oil production agreements with an Anglo-Irish firm, Tullow oil. The agreements allow the company to finalize a long-delayed $2.9 billion asset sale to France's Total and China's
3 Feb 2012 at 5:16pm
The United Nations refugee agency says it is alarmed by reports of renewed atrocities committed against internally displaced Congolese. The UNHCR says it has reports of IDPs (internally displaced peop
3 Feb 2012 at 5:15pm
A coalition of human rights groups Thursday has appealed to the Obama administration to lead a cross-border aid operation into South Sudan to deliver much-needed food and medicine to the people of war
3 Feb 2012 at 5:10am
Andrew Garfield recently travelled to Ethiopia after being appointed as the new ambassador of a global charity for orphans.
3 Feb 2012 at 3:30am
New Zealand has comprehensively the Zimbabwe cricket teamin the first ODI held at Dunedin's University Oval today.
2 Feb 2012 at 11:10pm
Nelson Mandela's personal chef has launched a cookbook which features some of the former South African president's favourite dishes.
2 Feb 2012 at 7:16pm
The United Nations relief chief today visited areas in South Sudan hit by recent ethnic violence and met some of the victims of a vicious cycle of raids and reprisal attacks, describing what she had s
3 Feb 2012 at 5:48pm
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir speaks at a news conference during the 61st UN General Assembly session September 19, 2006 at United Nations headquarters in New York City. (Stephen Chernin, Getty ...
3 Feb 2012 at 5:44pm
Download Some sports fans in Africa may be keeping an eye on Mathias Kiwanuka and the Super Bowl this weekend. But most will be following another sporting competition: The Africa Cup of Nations. ...
NYT > Africa
3 Feb 2012 at 10:58pm
Five people were killed on the second day of clashes between protesters and the police as demonstrators questioned the ruling military council’s ability to run the country.
3 Feb 2012 at 10:50pm
A bumper harvest and a surge in emergency food aid have ended a famine in Somalia that killed tens of thousands of people, the United Nations said on Friday.
3 Feb 2012 at 11:23pm
More than 10 people were killed and a United Nations employee was shot and wounded when clashes broke out at a peace meeting in South Sudan, United Nations officials said Friday.
3 Feb 2012 at 11:23pm
Sudan’s military bombed a Bible school built by an American Christian group in the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan State.
3 Feb 2012 at 11:23pm
The Kenyan military said Friday that it had killed an estimated 100 Somali militants when helicopter gunships attacked a gathering of more than 200 rebel fighters near Badhade.
3 Feb 2012 at 2:50pm
The appointment of an ambassador to Somalia for the first time in two decades signaled London’s intention to help make a push to address the country’s long-running conflict.
1 Feb 2012 at 5:46am
Abductions of Chinese workers in Sudan and Egypt have tested Beijing’s policy of noninterference and increased pressure to more aggressively protect its citizens abroad.
1 Feb 2012 at 1:20pm
The government said it was recalling the 1.35 million condoms handed out at the 100th birthday party of the African National Congress after some of them were found to be faulty.
1 Feb 2012 at 1:20pm
Hundreds of young Muslim Brotherhood members blocked a protest from reaching Parliament while its lawmakers inside dominated the selection of committee leaders.
31 Jan 2012 at 11:10am
A federal judge in Nigeria on Monday ordered Maj. Hamza al-Mustapha to be hanged for ordering a security agent to kill the wife of Moshood Abiola, a businessman widely believed to have won an annulled 1993 presidential election.
31 Jan 2012 at 11:10am
The vote underscored deep divisions in an organization created to help Africa overcome its old colonial divides and increase its power on the global stage.
31 Jan 2012 at 4:14pm
A blasphemy trial in Tunis symbolizes an emotional struggle, with implications for the Arab world, playing out with the rise of Islamists after the end of a secular dictatorship.
31 Jan 2012 at 11:01am
The Sudanese military said on Monday morning that it freed 14 kidnapped Chinese workers who were captured over the weekend by Sudanese rebels.
31 Jan 2012 at 11:20am
Protests spread last Friday after the constitutional court ruled that President Abdoulaye Wade could run in next month’s election, despite a two-term limit in the Constitution.
30 Jan 2012 at 12:10pm
The abduction in oil-rich South Kordofan state underlined China’s risk in sending ever-greater numbers of its workers into turbulent regions.
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Africa News
3 Feb 2012 at 9:44pm
The spokesman for Kenya's military says an estimated 100 Somali militants were killed after helicopter gunships targeted a gathering of more than 200 al-Shabab fighters in Somalia.
3 Feb 2012 at 5:35pm
The Western Cape High Court dismissed an application on the Dalai Lama's visa as it was too late to fix the past, the IFP said on Friday.
3 Feb 2012 at 1:20pm
A U.N. staff member was shot during a clash that broke out as officials met to discuss a weekend cattle raid massacre that left 78 people dead, including many women and children, U.N. officials said Friday.
3 Feb 2012 at 10:16am
In this outpost in the Sahara Desert, scientists are working feverishly to add a "Biblical problem" to the weather forecasts: The Desert Locust Center here in the capital of Mauritania, an enormous and sandy West-African country, is employing all kinds of technology - from "eLocust" computing devices to satellite images and crowdsourced locust ... (more)
3 Feb 2012 at 6:01am
Human Rights Watch says that a Moammar Gadhafi -era diplomat appears to have died under torture after his arrest by a Libyan militia, the latest in a series of reported abuses by former rebels who overthrew the dictator last year.
3 Feb 2012 at 4:01am
The United Nations said Friday that conditions in Somalia have improved enough to downgrade the country's famine, but the world body's Food and Agricultural Organization warned that continued assistance is needed to stop the region from slipping back.
2 Feb 2012 at 11:46pm
Egyptians move barbed wire set up by the military near Cairo's Tahrir Square on Thursday.
2 Feb 2012 at 7:47pm
Single Sign-On: You can use Facebook account to log in to LasVegasSun.com. A top U.N. official says South Sudan may need more than the $760 million the agency predicted they would need to cope with the new country's myriad humanitarian crises.
2 Feb 2012 at 3:32pm
Anthony Omari earned the still-fresh 11-stitch scar that runs from his forehead to his upper lip in one of the noblest ways imaginable: By taking a machete to the face while defending an under-resourced Kenyan orphanage from attacking thieves.
2 Feb 2012 at 11:28am
Protestors surrounded the palace of Mali's president on Thursday, angry about the government's handling of attacks by Tuareg rebels in the country's north.
2 Feb 2012 at 7:29am
Foreign Secretary William Hague arrived in Mogadishu on Thursday and appointed Matt Baugh as a senior U.K. Somalia representative.
2 Feb 2012 at 6:24am
Final election results show President Joseph Kabila's party losing 45 percent of the legislative seats it held before elections in November that international bodies denounced as fraudulent and chaotic.
2 Feb 2012 at 2:14am
The Supreme Court's midwinter break is often used by justices to fly off to sunny vacation spots or European capitals where they address an audience or two on someone else's tab.
1 Feb 2012 at 10:04pm
Nobel Peace Prize officials were facing a formal inquiry over accusations they have drifted away from the prize's original selection criteria by choosing such winners as President Barack Obama, as the nomination deadline for the 2012 awards closed Wednesday.
1 Feb 2012 at 5:54pm
No one was hurt in the bizarre standoff. Witnesses say remnants of fighting groups from the towns of Misrata and Zintan faced off in downtown Tripoli over control of a sports complex on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
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