20110108
RFI

Two men have been killed in the recent wave of violence over unemployment and the rising cost of food in Algeria, according to national media. Youths have clashes with riot police in Algiers and several other towns including Annaba, Oran, Bouira and Bejaia.

20110108
This Day

Christian youths attacked a car full of Muslims returning from a wedding in Jos, Plateau State, seven people inside the vehicle and sparking retaliatory violence that left one other person dead, AP has reported, quoting a Muslim lawyer.

20110108
africanews

Southern Sudanese President Salva Kiir has ruled out a return to war with the North irrespective of the outcome of his region's independence referendum which begins today.

20110108
africanews

Sudan President Omar al-Bashir has said Southern Sudan will face instability if it votes to secede from the north in a forthcoming referendum saying it did not have the ability to create a stable state or provide for its citizens. He said he understood why many southerners wanted independence, but he expressed concern at how the new nation would cope.

20110108
africanews

Former Governor of Nigeria's Delta State and candidate of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party [PDP] Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan was declared winner of the state governorship re-run election held on Thursday.

20110108
africanews

Canada and Britain have rejected the expulsion of their ambassadors by the incumbent president of Ivory Coast. They say they recognize only the authority of his challenger and the internationally-recognized winner of the country's presidential election, Allassane Ouattara.

20110108
africanews

The Oriental Post, a Chinese newspaper, was launched in Botswana at the Gaborone's Maharaja Restaurant on Friday night. The newspaper, probably the first of its kind in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), is printed in Chinese.

20110108
africanews

After years of negotiations, John Garang, the president of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement, the largest rebel movement in the south and the government of Sudan signed the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in January 2005. The power-sharing agreement signed in Naivasha, Kenya, ended the longest-running civil war in Africa. The focus of the whole country for the last few years had been on the first elections in almost 25 years and the referendum was not discussed until very recently.

20110107
africanews

Ghana's president John Mills has kicked against any military intervention in Ivory Coast to force incumbent Laurent Gbagbo out of office. "It is not for Ghana to choose a leader for Cote D'ivoire. I have spoken to both Ouatarra and Gbagbo and I cannot make it public. I do not think the military operation will bring peace to the nation."

20110107
africanews

Media reports from the US state that former Nigeria international, Uche Okafor, was found dead at his Dallas, Texas home in the United States of America (USA) early Thursday. Ben Iroha, a former Nigerian team-mate of Uche between 1990 and 1994, told SuperSport.com that he received the shock news via a telephone conversation that the 43-year-old has died.

20110107
africanews

Good rains received in southern and central areas of Malawi for the 2010/11 agricultural season and the availability of Farm Input Subsidy Programme, which benefited an estimated 1.6 million smallholder maize farmers, has raised prospects of another good harvest in that country.

20110107
New Vision

PRESIDENT of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, has said that Sunday's referendum on the future of southern Sudan will be an opportunity to enhance security and stability in East Africa.

20110107
UN News

The United Nations refugee agency announced today that its programme to facilitate family visits for Western Sahara refugees who have been separated for more than 30 years has resumed.

20110107
Citizen

Arusha — Police confirmed yesterday that two people died in Wednesday's demonstration called by Chadema.

20110106
IPS

Cape Town — South Africa's (SA), inclusion in the BRIC group of powerful emerging economies has sparked intense debate, with some saying it has done itself a disservice by trying to punch above its weight, and others lauding the inclusion as a step towards becoming a more important player on the global stage.

20110107
RFI

Youths attacked a police station and burned shops in Algiers on Thursday, in a second day of protests against rising costs and unemployment. Demonstrators are also protesting against a lack of social housing and allegations of corruption.

20110107
RFI

The government of Côte d'Ivoire's incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo has ordered the expulsion of the British and Canadian ambassadors because they do not recognise ambassadors appointed by Gbagbo. Presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara meanwhile called for a west African sting operation against Gbagbo.

20110107
xinhuda

The southern Sudan referendum to be held in the country's south, north and eight foreign countries is now fully prepared for the historic day on Jan. 9, a referendum commission official told Xinhua Wednesday.

20110107
xinhuda

The African Union (AU) envoy, Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, reiterated on Wednesday that Cote d'Ivoire's incumbent Laurent Gbagbo would have amnesty if he agrees to surrender power peacefully.

20110107
xinhuda

Twenty-seven suspected terrorists recently smashed by the Moroccan security forces have links "with extremists of different nationalities in European countries," the Moroccan Interior Minister said Wednesday.