Angola ruling party set for big win in disputed poll
The international community has been watching the vote closely after tarnished elections in Zimbabwe and Kenya, hoping that the former Portuguese colony would defy its own history and emerge from the election with political concensus. UNITA leader Isaias Samakuva, how...
Tsvangirai challenges Mugabe to new election
"We are saying to him you can call another election under international supervision and...
Angola holds landmark election
The vast majority of Angola's 17 million people remain mired in poverty despite rocketing gr...
Rice on historic Libya visit
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice travels to Libya on Friday for a landmark meeting with its leader Moamer Kadhafi ...
Sarkozy warns Iran it risks Israeli attack
DAMASCUS (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy warned Iran on Thursday it was taking a dangerous gamble in seekin...
Southern Africa
Angola ruling party set for big win in disputed poll
The international community has been watching the vote closely after tarnished elections in Zimbabwe and Kenya, hoping that the former Portuguese colony would defy its own...
World News
Sarkozy warns Iran it risks Israeli attack
DAMASCUS (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy warned Iran on Thursday it was taking a dangerous gamble in seeking to develop nuclear weapons because one day its arch-foe Israel could strike. ...
West Africa
BENIN: Coastal erosion threatening to wipe out parts of Cotonou
COTONOU, 2 September 2008 (IRIN) - Rising sea levels have destroyed hundreds of homes, hotels, roads and harvests, and threaten to engulf large areas of Cotonou, Benin's capital. A government-commi...
Central Africa
Aid plane crashes in Congo, 17 feared dead
KINSHASA, (Reuters) - A humanitarian plane carrying 17 passengers and crew that went missing in Democratic Republic of Congo has crashed into a mountain and all aboard are feared dead, the fli...
East Africa
Pirates hijack Egyptian ship off Somalia
The pirates are sailing to Eyl with the French yacht and another Egyptian ship that they hijacked last night, Hassan Muse Alore, the minister for minerals in northern Somalia's Puntland regi...
North Africa
Rice on historic Libya visit
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice travels to Libya on Friday for a landmark meeting with its leader Moamer Kadhafi to mark the end of the Arab nation's international isolation. It will be the fir...
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13:47 - 01.09.2008
West Africa | Senegal
Face aux allégations de la presse de ce week-end faisant état du refus de Farba Sen...
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03:00 - 26.08.2008
Southern Africa | Angola
(IRIN) The prospect of Angola holding free and fair parliamentary elections in September is...
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03:00 - 26.08.2008
Southern Africa | Angola
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20:17 - 15.08.2008
Sport News | Olympics
The Ethiopian athlete, Tirunesh Dibaba, has won Africa's first gold medal at the Beijing Olympic...
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19:38 - 15.08.2008
East Africa | Kenya
The oil-rich seed of a poisonous shrub that thrives in arid climates with poor soil lies at the hear...