Africa News

LONDON (AFP) - England manager Fabio Capello is adamant there is still enough time for Manchester United midfielder Owen Hargreaves to earn a place in next year's squad for the World Cup in South Africa. Full Story »

TRIPOLI (AFP) - The International Organisation for Migration repatriated on Tuesday 160 Ethiopian migrants who had been stranded in Libya without travel documents. Full Story »

CENTURION (AFP) - England captain Andrew Strauss on Tuesday called on his players to "stand up and be counted" in the four-match Test series against South Africa which starts at SuperSport Park on Wednesday. Full Story »

ARUSHA, Tanzania (AFP) - The African human rights court, in its first ever case Tuesday, ruled itself incompetent to decide whether charges against Chad's former president Hissene Habre should be dropped. Full Story »

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone - A woman barred from running for chief of her district because of her gender said Tuesday she has appealed for a new election and a place on the ballot. Full Story »

FRANKFURT (AFP) - German auto giant Daimler said Tuesday it has won a contract to deliver 460 long-distance Mercedes-Benz buses to South Africa starting in April for use in the 2010 football World Cup. Full Story »

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Up to 48 Sudanese opposition supporters will face charges for taking part in a banned rally close to parliament calling for democratic reforms, officials said on Tuesday. Full Story »

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - South Africa lost 79,000 jobs in the third quarter, even as the economy pulled out of recession, worsening the country's chronic unemployment problem, the government said Tuesday. Full Story »

HARARE (AFP) - Four years after her house was demolished in a blitz by Zimbabwe's government, Chipo Chama still lives in a grass thatched shack struggling to find a better home for herself and her two children. Full Story »

JOHANNESBURG - U.N. peacekeepers in Congo are violating the laws of war and should immediately stop backing Congolese troops who have deliberately killed hundreds of civilians in an operation to oust rebels in eastern Congo, Human Rights Watch said. Full Story »

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - A protest by African nations accusing rich countries of doing too little to cut greenhouse gas emissions slowed U.N. climate talks on Monday just four days before world leaders are due to forge a deal in Copenhagen. Full Story »

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - A protest by African nations accusing rich countries of doing too little to cut greenhouse gas emissions slowed U.N. climate talks on Monday just four days before world leaders are due to forge a deal in Copenhagen. Full Story »

ABUJA (AFP) - The new head of the UN nuclear watchdog, Yukiya Amano, on Monday held talks here on future cooperation with Nigeria, which plans to build its first nuclear power plant with Russian assistance. Full Story »

NAIROBI (AFP) - Twelve players of the Eritrean national football squad have gone missing in Kenya, the Council of East and Central Africa Football Associations (CECAFA) general secretary Nicholas Musonye told AFP on Monday. Full Story »

KHARTOUM (AFP) - Sudanese police fired tear gas, used water cannons and rounded up dozens of opposition supporters on Monday to halt a pro-democracy rally outside parliament, an AFP reporter said. Full Story »

PARIS - Fragments of an ancient wall painting that caused a feud between Egypt and the Louvre Museum are heading home. Full Story »

KHARTOUM (AFP) - A civilian staffer of the UN-African Union peacekeeping force in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region expressed relief on Monday after being freed along with another UNAMID employee following a kidnap ordeal. Full Story »

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso - Guinea's military leadership on Monday rejected a proposal from a regional group to bring in foreign troops to prevent further violence, saying it would consider such a move an act of war. Full Story »