World: Africa

  • An Egyptian Coptic church appears behind a mosque in Cairo. A Coptic Christian was killed by a stray bullet during an overnight gunfight between Christians and Muslims in a town in southern Egypt, a security official said on Saturday.(AFP/File/Marwan Naamani)
    Egypt Christian killed in clashes with Muslims AFP - Sat Oct 4, 12:20 PM ET

    MINYA, Egypt (AFP) - A Coptic Christian was killed by a stray bullet during an overnight gunfight between Christians and Muslims in a town in southern Egypt, a security official said on Saturday.

  • President of the Republic of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe addresses at the 63rd United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York September 25, 2008. Mugabe was set to meet opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Saturday to try to break a deadlock over cabinet posts threatening a crucial power-sharing deal, a senior government official said. (Eric Thayer/Reuters)
    Mugabe to meet Tsvangirai over cabinet posts Reuters - Sat Oct 4, 5:39 AM ET

    HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe was set to meet opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Saturday to try to break a deadlock over cabinet posts threatening a crucial power-sharing deal, a senior government official said.

  • UN envoy says Congo fighting could escalate AP - Sat Oct 4, 12:23 AM ET

    UNITED NATIONS - The top U.N. envoy to Congo warned Friday that renewed fighting in eastern Congo has heightened ethnic tensions and could lead to the renewal of a wider conflict in central Africa.

  • U.N. wants more troops in Congo as violence mounts Reuters - Fri Oct 3, 6:29 PM ET

    UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations' top official in the Democratic Republic of Congo asked the U.N. Security Council on Friday for extra troops to help halt the spread of violence in the country's eastern provinces.

  • Residents use an inflatable boat in a flooded street in Ghardaia, 600 kilometers (370 miles) south of Algiers, Algeria, Thursday Oct. 2, 2008. Torrential rain in the Algerian Sahara caused flash floods that killed 30 people and injured dozens in a historic oasis region, officials in the North African nation said Thursday. (AP Photo)
    Death toll up to 33 in Algerian desert flood AP - Fri Oct 3, 5:13 PM ET

    ALGIERS, Algeria - Hundreds of troops, engineers and social workers have converged on the desert town of Ghardaia to help with relief operations after a flash flood there killed 33, Algeria's Interior Ministry said Friday.

  • Kenya terror suspects in Ethiopia to come home AP - Fri Oct 3, 3:21 PM ET

    NAIROBI, Kenya - Eight terror suspects flown to secret jails in Ethiopia a year and a half ago for questioning, some of them by American agents, will return to Kenya, a police spokesman said Friday.

  • Mbeki to continue mediation efforts in Zimbabwe AP - Fri Oct 3, 1:39 PM ET

    JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Former South African President Thabo Mbeki will continue efforts to mediate an end to the political crisis in Zimbabwe.

  • Former South African president Thabo Mbeki, seen here in September 2008, has agreed to resume his mediation in neighbouring Zimbabwe's political crisis, a spokesman for the government in Pretoria said Friday.(AFP/File/Alexander Joe)
    Mbeki agrees to resume Zimbabwe mediation: spokesman AFP - Fri Oct 3, 1:11 PM ET

    JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - South Africa's former president Thabo Mbeki has agreed to resume his mediation in neighbouring Zimbabwe's political crisis, a spokesman for the government in Pretoria said Friday.

  • Dissident general Laurent Nkunda is pictured at his mountain base in Kirolirwe, northwest of the provincial capital Goma, in February 2008. The coordinator of the peace process in the Democratic Republic of Congo has condemned a rebel call on the Congolese people for a campaign of open defiance against the governement.(AFP/File/Lionel Healing)
    DR Congo peace programme head condemns rebel call AFP - Fri Oct 3, 11:15 AM ET

    KINSHASA (AFP) - The coordinator of the peace process in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday condemned a rebel call on the Congolese people for a campaign of open defiance against the governement.

  • The challenge of raising teens in AIDS-ravaged South Africa The Christian Science Monitor - Fri Oct 3, 4:00 AM ET

    Tshipesong, South Africa - On the way home from school, Thabang Thimbela stops off to visit his girlfriend, a few blocks from the tin shack where he and his foster parents and seven foster brothers and sisters live.

  • South African soldiers serving with the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) stand atop a vehicle during a patrol to the village of Kafod, North Darfur, July 2, 2008. (Albany Associates/Stuart Price/Handout/Reuters)
    Japan to send military officers to U.N. in Sudan Reuters - Thu Oct 2, 10:16 PM ET

    TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will send two army officers to Sudan, probably this month, to take part in a United Nations operation monitoring a peace agreement that ended Africa's longest-running civil war, the Foreign Ministry said on Friday.

  • Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir (L) and his Ghanaian counterpart John Kufuor attend the opening of the 6th African, Caribbean, Pacific (ACP) summit at the Accra international conference centre October 2, 2008. (Yaw Bibini/Reuters)
    Arrest threat bad for Darfur talks: Bashir Reuters - Thu Oct 2, 2:14 PM ET

    ACCRA (Reuters) - Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said Thursday a possible indictment against him for war crimes threatens to derail Darfur peace talks and enlisted support from the 79-nation ACP bloc against the prosecution.

  • A minibus tax owner drinks an early morning cup of coffee at a taxi rank in Khayelitsha, Cape Town in 2004. South Africa can't find enough skilled workers to deliver local services to the public, a top official said Thursday in delivering an annual report on the government's performance.(AFP/File/Anna Zieminski)
    South Africa faces critical skills shortage: official AFP - Thu Oct 2, 1:16 PM ET

    PRETORIA (AFP) - South Africa can't find enough skilled workers to deliver local services to the public, a top official said Thursday in delivering an annual report on the government's performance.

  • Motorists drive past by a garbage dump on the Lagos-Ibadan highway in Ibafo, on September 9, despite the government's prohibition of dumping trash at the site. The more than 15 million inhabitants of Lagos produce an estimated 9,000 tonnes of trash every day, according to local authorities.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei)
    Nigeria's jobless eke a living from garbage heaps AFP - Thu Oct 2, 12:16 PM ET

    KATAGUA, Nigeria (AFP) - As a rickety garbage truck rattled to a halt and discharged its contents Francis Adigwe, an unemployed textile engineer turned scavenger, rushed over and emerged with his find of the day, a piece of metal he estimated will bring in more than two dollars.

  • South African Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma speaks during a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York, Monday Sept 22, 2008. (AP Photos/Bebeto Matthews)
    S.African foreign minister urges unity in ANC Reuters - Wed Oct 1, 7:34 PM ET

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - South African Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma said on Wednesday leaders of the ruling African National Congress should do everything to keep the party united after the ousting of President Thabo Mbeki.

  • Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe (left), Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai (centre) and former South African leader Thabo Mbeki shake hands after signing a power-sharing accord on September 15. Zimbabwe's ruling party has rejected calls for Mbeki to intervene to salvage a power-sharing deal after the two sides failed to agree on a cabinet.(AFP/File/Desmond Kwande)
    Mbeki's Zimbabwe role up to SADC: SAfrica minister Reuters - Wed Oct 1, 7:33 PM ET

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - South Africa's foreign minister said on Wednesday she was confident that former President Thabo Mbeki would continue mediating power-sharing talks in Zimbabwe if he is asked by the Southern African Development Community.

  • A teenage fighter with the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) patrols the jungle regions that straddle Sudan's border with the Democratic Republic of Congo. The United Nations children's fund (UNICEF) has urged the immediate release of 90 children kidnapped in the DRC by the LRA.(AFP/File/Stuart Price)
    UN urges rebels to free 90 kids in Congo AP - Wed Oct 1, 4:15 PM ET

    UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations on Wednesday urged rebels from the Lord's Resistance Army to free 90 school children abducted two weeks ago in eastern Congo.

  • Bob Marley in 1976. Nigeria will re-name streets after music legends Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and Marley, as well as Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, a minister said on Wednesday.(AFP/File)
    Nigerian streets to be named for Bob Marley, Malcolm X, others AFP - Wed Oct 1, 3:38 PM ET

    ABUJA (AFP) - Nigeria will re-name streets after music legends Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and Bob Marley, as well as Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, a minister said on Wednesday.

  • Mogadishu residents flee with their belongings from the embattled Somali capital in September 2008. At least seven civilians were killed Wednesday in a mortar fire exchange that erupted when an African Union (AU) plane landed at Mogadishu airport in defiance of a "ban" by an Islamist militia, witnesses said.(AFP/File/Abdirashid Abdulle)
    Mogadishu mortar attack kills seven AFP - Wed Oct 1, 1:43 PM ET

    MOGADISHU (AFP) - At least seven civilians were killed Wednesday in a mortar fire exchange that erupted when an African Union (AU) plane landed at Mogadishu airport in defiance of a "ban" by an Islamist militia, witnesses said.

  • Group says Ethiopia won't release terror suspects AP - Wed Oct 1, 1:27 PM ET

    NAIROBI, Kenya - Suspects arrested in a clandestine anti-terrorism sweep in East Africa nearly two years ago and interrogated by U.S. personnel have been abandoned by their governments, a human rights group said in a report released Wednesday that also detailed torture accusations from former prisoners.

  • Former Liberian President Charles Taylor is seen in court as his trial reopened at the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday Jan. 7, 2008, six months after it was adjourned when he boycotted the opening session and fired his attorney. In courts on two continents, Taylor and his American son are standing trial. The trials are revealing the savagery of the conflicts in West Africa and demonstrate that the days may be over when suspects could slip away into obscurity to avoid prosecution. (AP Photo/Michael Kooren, Pool)
    Ex-Liberia president, son face UN, US charges AP - Wed Oct 1, 1:12 PM ET

    THE HAGUE, Netherlands - In separate courts on different continents, former Liberian President Charles Taylor and his American son are standing trial on charges of committing atrocities in neighboring West African nations.

  • South African commercial farmer Motsepe Matlala inspects apples growing on his 1,400 hectare (3,460 acre) farm near the small town of Ermelo in Mpumalanga province in this February 23, 2006 file photo. (Siphiwe Sibeko/Files/Reuters)
    S.Africa sticks to target on black land ownership Reuters - Wed Oct 1, 12:55 PM ET

    PRETORIA (Reuters) - South Africa will stick to its ambitious plan to put 30 percent of farmland in black hands by 2014, even though it is lagging way behind target, a senior government official said on Wednesday.

  • An Ethiopian rides his horse-drawn cart through the northern town of Mekele in 2007. An outbreak of African horse sickness has killed more than 2,000 horses, mules and donkeys in Ethiopia since March.(AFP/Jose Cendon)
    Killer horse disease hits Ethiopia AFP - Wed Oct 1, 12:19 PM ET

    ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - An outbreak of African horse sickness has killed more than 2,000 horses, mules and donkeys in Ethiopia since March, an official said Wednesday.

  • Rebel leader Jean-Jacques Demafouth, seen here in 2001, has said that a law passed in the Central African Republic to protect rebels and goverment officials from prosecution for some crimes is "unacceptable".(AFP/File/null)
    Amnesty law 'unacceptable,' says CAR rebel leader AFP - Wed Oct 1, 10:17 AM ET

    LIBREVILLE (AFP) - A law passed in the Central African Republic to protect rebels and certain goverment officials from prosecution for some crimes is "unacceptable," rebel leader Jean-Jacques Demafouth said Wednesday.

  • One of the cars taking part in the 'South African Solar Challenge' on display in Cape Town. Africa's first-ever solar-powered car race is underway in South Africa to raise awareness about alternative energy and promote science and technology.(AFP/Rodger Bosch)
    Solar powered cars race in South Africa AFP - Wed Oct 1, 9:40 AM ET

    CAPE TOWN (AFP) - Africa's first-ever solar-powered car race is underway in South Africa to raise awareness about alternative energy and promote science and technology, organisers said Wednesday.

  • Jonny Wilkinson (pictured in March 2008) looks set to miss England's November meetings with Australia, New Zealand and South Africa after suffering a dislocated left knee.(AFP/File/Carl de Souza)
    Wilkinson out after dislocating knee AFP - Wed Oct 1, 8:47 AM ET

    LONDON (AFP) - Jonny Wilkinson looks set to miss England's November meetings with Australia, New Zealand and South Africa after suffering a dislocated left knee.

  • An inert cluster bomblet is found in the southern Lebanese village of Khirbet Silem in 2007. Six new African countries have pledged support for banning cluster bombs during a conference in Uganda, bringing to 40 the number of nations on the continent set to ratify a treaty.(AFP/File/Ramzi Haidar)
    Increased African support for cluster bombs treaty AFP - Wed Oct 1, 8:37 AM ET

    KAMPALA (AFP) - Six new African countries pledged support for banning cluster bombs during a conference in Uganda, organisers said Wednesday, bringing to 40 the number of nations on the continent set to ratify a treaty.

  • Al Qaeda says it was behind Algeria bombing Reuters - Wed Oct 1, 8:08 AM ET

    DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's north Africa wing said it was behind a deadly suicide bombing in Algeria on Sunday, according to a statement posted on the Internet on Wednesday.

  • Nigeria's President Umaru Yar' Adua attends the Organization of Islamic Conference in March 2008. Yar'Adua has vowed to maintain strong growth and take the oil-rich nation to the world's top 20 economies by 2020, in a speech marking 48 years of independence from Britain.(AFP/File/Georges Gobet)
    Nigerian president vows strong growth AFP - Wed Oct 1, 6:58 AM ET

    ABUJA (AFP) - Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua vowed on Wednesday to maintain strong growth and take the oil-rich nation to the world's top 20 economies by 2020, in a speech marking 48 years of independence from Britain.

  • Libyans shop in a hypermarket in the capital Tripoli on September 29. Libyans are shaking off years of deprivation caused by an iron-fisted socialist rule, international isolation and sanctions to savor the joys of their new market economy.(AFP/Mahmud Turkia)
    Libyans savour joys of consumerism AFP - Tue Sep 30, 10:49 PM ET

    TRIPOLI (AFP) - Libyans are shaking off decades of deprivation resulting from an iron-fisted socialist rule, international isolation and sanctions to savour the joys of their new market economy.

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