20110115
reuters

RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia confirmed the former Tunisian president and his family had arrived in the kingdom early on Saturday morning to stay for an unspecified period of time.

20110111
reuters

With elections due in February, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni's main rival in the country's presidential elections has threatened to pull out of the race if certain conditions are not met.

20110111
xinhua

KHARTOUM, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- South Sudan Referendum Commission (SSRC) on Monday said that the voting rate registered 20 percent in south Sudan's 10 states and 14 percent in north Sudan in the first day of the poll.

20110111
reuters

ABIDJAN, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- Alassane Ouattara, who has gained international support to replace Laurent as Cote D'Ivoire president, has promised to form a unity government with members of Gbagbo's party if the embattled Gbagbo leaves office first, according to the country's UN ambassador.

20110111
xinhua

ABIDJAN, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo left Cote d'Ivoire early Monday after two days of mediation as incumbent Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo still refused to cede power since the Nov. 28 presidential vote.

20110112
reuters

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - South Sudan will want to strengthen ties with sub-Saharan Africa, the West and beyond after its expected secession, but will have to tread carefully if it wants to avoid antagonising its old rulers in Khartoum.

20110112
reuters

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Clashes in Ivory Coast killed at least five people on Tuesday in the most serious outburst of violence between backers of presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara and forces loyal to incumbent Laurent Gbagbo for weeks.

20110112
reuters

TUNIS (Reuters) - Police fired into the air to disperse a crowd ransacking buildings in a Tunis suburb on Tuesday, the first time a wave of violent unrest that officials say has killed 23 civilians has hit the capital.

20110111
reuters

NIAMEY (Reuters) - Niger held local elections on Tuesday, a vote that passed peacefully but was dogged by delays and disorganisation in a number of areas, officials said.

20110111
reuters

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Shrouded in black cloth, the home of Sudan's first leader Ismail al-Azhari is transformed into a symbol of mourning in Khartoum as the south votes in a plebiscite likely to split Africa's largest country for ever.

20110111
reuters

JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) - Armed men killed 10 southern Sudanese in an ambush, a southern minister said on the third day of a referendum on independence for the south in which voters have defied gloomy predictions and turned out in huge numbers.

20110111
reuters

LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambian police have taken into custody two Chinese accused of shooting and wounding 11 coal miners for suspected violations of their release on bail, their lawyer said on Tuesday.

20110111
reuters

YAOUNDE (Reuters) - The sole challenger to Cameroon President Paul Biya for the ruling party's 2011 presidential nomination said on Tuesday he had resigned from the party after receiving death threats.

20110111
reuters

ABUJA (Reuters) - A panel from Nigeria's ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) screened three presidential hopefuls on Tuesday ahead of primaries this week which are set to be the most fiercely contested for more than a decade.

20110111
reuters

CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian Christian was shot dead on a train on Tuesday and at least three others were wounded, sources said, less than two weeks after a church was bombed in Egypt's deadliest sectarian attack in years.

20110110
Nation

Nairobi — Top leaders of the coalition government met on Monday to speed up reforms in the Judiciary in line with the new Constitution.

20110110
Shabelle

Mogadishu — Officials of Benadir Administration under the transitional federal government of Somalia on Monday tortured two reporters of Shabelle Media Network, a local radio station based in the Somalis capital Mogadishu.

20110110
RFI

An unprecedented wave of violence in Tunisia sparked by high food prices and unemployment has killed at least fourteen people and left many more injured.

20110110
Public Agenda

Ghana's decision not to contribute troops in support of a possible military intervention in La Cote d'Ivoire has in no doubt complicated matters for ECOWAS, which has served notice on the beleaguered Ivorian leader Laurent Gbagbo that, should ongoing diplomatic efforts fail to get him to step down; the sub-regional grouping will have no option but to force him out.

20110110
Nation

Chipata — Zambia's President Rupiah Banda has told his party members to take bribes but "vote with your conscience".