Africa News

Yemen: Somali pirates hijack Panamanian cargo ship

AP - Saturday, November 21

SANA'A, Yemen - Yemen's coast guard says Somali pirates have hijacked a Panamanian cargo ship in the treacherous Gulf of Aden between the Arabian peninsula and the Horn of Africa. More »

  • Ugandan army kills 34 tribesmen on cattle raids

    AP - Saturday, November 21

    KAMPALA, Uganda - Ugandan officials say the army has killed 34 tribesmen who were stealing cattle in Uganda's volatile northeastern region.

  • Kenya unveils constitution to avoid vote violence

    AP - Friday, November 20

    NAIROBI, Kenya - A government-appointed panel this week unveiled a draft constitution that is part of wide-ranging efforts to avoid a repeat of political violence that saw more than 1,000 people killed after Kenya's December 2007 presidential elections.

  • South Sudanese cattle herders from the Dinka ethnic group dance while watching wrestling in Bor, Jonglei State, in 2008. Forty-seven people have been killed in ethnic clashes between the Mundari and the Dinka in south Sudan's Lakes state region, a military spokesman said on Wednesday.

    South Sudan clashes leave 47 dead: military

    AFP - Thursday, November 19

    JUBA, Sudan (AFP) - - Forty-seven people were killed in ethnic clashes in south Sudan's Lakes state region, a military spokesman said on Wednesday.

  • VIDEO - After savouring their fresh victory against Algeria, Egypt fans are looking ahead to the make-or-break World Cup qualification play-off taking place in Sudan on Wednesday. Duration: 00:50

    Sudan hikes security for World Cup qualifier

    AFP - Thursday, November 19

    KHARTOUM (AFP) - - Sudan's security forces threw a tight security cordon around Khartoum to prevent violence between fans of Algeria and Egypt, who clash on Wednesday for a place at the World Cup football finals.

  • Somali woman stoned to death for adultery

    AP - Thursday, November 19

    MOGADISHU, Somalia - A judge for an Islamic militant group in Somalia says a woman has been stoned to death and her boyfriend given 100 lashes for having an affair.

  • Ransom paid as Somali pirates free Spanish trawler

    AFP - Wednesday, November 18

    MOGADISHU (AFP) - - Somali pirates on Tuesday released a Spanish tuna trawler and its 36 crew seized more than a month ago in the Indian Ocean, saying they had been paid a four-million-dollar (2.6-million-euro) ransom.

  • Correction: Internet conference story

    AP - Wednesday, November 18

    SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt - In a Nov. 15 story about Egypt's plan to apply for the first Internet domain name written in Arabic, The Associated Press incorrectly quoted Yahoo Inc. co-founder Jerry Yang.

  • Mozambique: Major corruption trial begins

    AP - Wednesday, November 18

    MAPUTO, Mozambique - A former Cabinet minister and four other defendants are standing trial in the biggest corruption case to go to court in Mozambique since independence in 1975.

  • Rwandan priest acquitted of genocide charges

    AP - Wednesday, November 18

    ARUSHA, Tanzania - A United Nations court on Tuesday acquitted a Catholic priest charged with genocide, murder and extermination in Rwanda's 1994 genocide after the judge said the prosecution had failed to prove its case.

  • Afghan President Hamid Karzai gestures during a press conference in Kabul on November 3. Somalia and Afghanistan topped a blacklist of the world's most corrupt countries drawn up by the anti-graft watchdog Transparency International.

    Somalia, Afghanistan shamed in graft league table

    AFP - Wednesday, November 18

    BERLIN (AFP) - - Lawless Somalia and war-torn Afghanistan topped a blacklist on Tuesday of the world's most corrupt countries drawn up by the anti-graft watchdog Transparency International.

  • Mozambique opposition claims election fraud

    AP - Wednesday, November 18

    MAPUTO, Mozambique - Mozambique's main opposition party says the ruling party stuffed ballot boxes and expelled opposition monitors from polling stations to help it win the country's Oct. 28 presidential election.

  • New Greenpeace chief has fought apartheid, poverty

    AP - Tuesday, November 17

    JOHANNESBURG - An African has taken over as director of Greenpeace, bringing experience honed as a teenage opponent of white rule in South Africa and a network of powerful contacts to the battle against global warming.

  • AP IMPACT: Kenyans recruited to fight in Somalia

    AP - Tuesday, November 17

    DADAAB, Kenya - The recruits assembled by moonlight at a watering hole.

  • SAfrican woman survives after thrown from bridge

    AP - Tuesday, November 17

    JOHANNESBURG - Police say a South African woman has survived after carjackers threw her off a nearly 200-foot (60-meter)-tall bridge.

  • Egypt to apply for first Arabic domain name

    AP - Monday, November 16

    SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt - Egypt will apply for the first Internet domain written in Arabic, its information technology minister said Sunday at a conference grouping Yahoo's co-founder and others to discuss boosting online access in emerging nations.

  • Nigeria militants start peace talks with president

    AP - Monday, November 16

    ABUJA, Nigeria - Nigeria's main militant group in the oil-rich Delta region said Sunday that it had started formal peace talks with the country's president for the first time since it declared an indefinite cease-fire last month.

  • File picture shows Ethiopian soldiers. Ethiopian rebels have launched a wide offensive in the southeastern Somali ethnic Ogaden region and recaptured seven towns from government forces, they claimed Saturday in a statement.

    Ethiopia rebels claim massive counter-offensive

    AFP - Saturday, November 14

    ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - - Ethiopian rebels have launched a wide offensive in the southeastern Somali ethnic Ogaden region and recaptured seven towns from government forces, they claimed Saturday in a statement.

  • Activist: Rights, liberties waning in Ethiopia

    AP - Saturday, November 14

    JOHANNESBURG - An Ethiopian human rights activist who was jailed for 2 1/2 years said Friday that his country is less free today than it was during its disputed 2005 election.

  • UN children's agency warns of south Sudan famine

    AP - Friday, November 13

    CAIRO - The deputy head of the U.N. children's agency said Thursday that a famine is looming in southern Sudan because of scarce rainfall and inadequate foreign funds for the region.

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