Africa News

TRENTON, N.J. - A New Jersey man detained for months in Ethiopia on allegations of supporting Islamic militants before being allowed to come home sued the FBI agents involved in his interrogations. Full Story »

CENTURION, South Africa (AFP) - Recalled J.P. Duminy scored a maiden one-day century as South Africa answered the call of coach Mickey Arthur with a 212-run thrashing of Zimbabwe at SuperSport Park on Tuesday. Full Story »

GENEVA (AFP) - Armed men have abducted a French Red Cross worker in eastern Chad near Sudan's Darfur region, prompting one charity to plan a reduction of its presence, official said Tuesday. Full Story »

SABRATHA, Libya (AFP) - The number of illegal immigrants being held by Libya has fallen to under 2,000 thanks to the country's policy of repatriation, a senior official said on Tuesday. Full Story »

CENTURION, South Africa (AFP) - South Africa scored 331-5 off 50 overs against Zimbabwe after being put into bat in the second and final one-day international on Tuesday at SuperSport Park. Full Story »

DAKAR (AFP) - The cereal crop will decline sharply in Chad, Niger and Mauritania in 2009-2010 because of drought, the permanent Inter-state Committee to Fight Drought in the Sahel (CILSS) announced on Tuesday. Full Story »

BLANTYRE, Malawi - Lawyers say two Malawian opposition leaders have been convicted of sedition and inciting violence while campaigning. Full Story »

ROME (Reuters) - Drought and war in eastern Africa have left more than 20 million people in desperate need of emergency food aid, the United Nations said on Tuesday. Full Story »

ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - Ethiopia on Tuesday announced the discovery of a mine containing more than 40 tonnes of gold deposit worth 1.7 billion dollars (1.1 billion euros). Full Story »

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The trial of a former Rwandan bank director charged with helping fund the 1994 Rwanda genocide will go ahead despite his absence due to ill health, a Belgian court ruled Tuesday. Full Story »

CAIRO (AFP) - Restoration work will begin on the tomb of Egypt's most famous pharaoh, King Tutankhamen, Egypt's antiquities department said on Tuesday. Full Story »

ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - The African Union on Tuesday called on Madagascar's political rivals to urgently implement a power-sharing deal reached last week aimed at ending the country's protracted political crisis. Full Story »

BANGUI (AFP) - Central African Republic former president Ange-Felix Patasse, who returned from exile last month, met Monday with the man who deposed him and vowed to run for office next year. Full Story »

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - World Cup hosts South Africa have axed striker Mabhuti Khanyeza for friendlies against Japan and Jamaica after he missed a training-camp deadline. Full Story »

COTONOU (AFP) - After a four-week ocean journey to nowhere, Raimi was tired and disillusioned on return to Benin's port of Cotonou, which he had left in high hopes of reaching the oil "El Dorado" of central Africa: Equatorial Guinea. Full Story »

ARUSHA, Tanzania (AFP) - Former Rwandan government minister Callixte Nzabonimana, described by prosecutors as "the Butcher of Gitarama", went on trial Monday at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Tanzania. Full Story »

KHARTOUM (AFP) - Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir has made a big show of defying a global arrest warrant against him, but in fact it has greatly curtailed his travel, as shown by his scrapping of trip to Istanbul. Full Story »

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AFP) - China's pledge of 10 billion dollars in concessional loans to African states and enhanced trade was warmly received by African delegates as a two-day summit in Egypt ended on Monday. Full Story »