20110103
africanews

Thousands of Zimbabweans in South Africa queued outside the Department of Home Affairs in a bid to end their 'illegal immigrant' status in a last-minute scramble this week. The department was adamant there would be no more extension on the deadline which ended last Friday.
Zimbabweans fear deportation humiliation from RSA

20110102
africanews

A museum built to honour the legacy of Nelson Mandela is turning into a national embarrassment forcing Cameron Dugmore, former Western Cape education minister, to vow to raise his concerns about the heritage site with the premier of the Eastern Cape.

20110102
africanews

Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak is pushing for peace between Muslims and Christians in the northern African country after a bomb blast on New Year's Eve outside the al-Qiddissin church in the Alexandria city killed at least 21 people. He said the act bore the hallmark of "foreign hands" seeking to destabilise Egypt.

20110101
Shabelle

Mogadishu — More fighters loyal to Al shabaab Jihadist movement detained at leat 20 people in Elasha Biyaha, where is said to be a shelter for hundreds of thousands displaced Somalis, witnesses said on Saturday.

20110102
Zimbabwe Standard

Harare — A Cabinet minister distributed some "holy water" from a renowned African prophet at the party's women council meeting recently as jostling for positions reach feverish levels ahead of the MDC-T party's congress scheduled for May.

20110103
Vanguard

Abuja — THE Federal Government, yesterday, made good its pledge to seek the assistance of foreign bomb experts to get to the root of New Year Eve bomb blast at the Mammy Market of the Mogadishu Cantonment, Abuja which claimed four lives and injured several others as United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, agents are already on their way to the country.

20110103
East African

Nairobi — As Sudan goes to the referendum next week, Kenya and Uganda are on high alert in anticipation of a spillover of violence.

20110102
reuters

Accra — Even though it is an election conflict confined to Cote d'Ivoire, the ramifications go beyond the Ivorian political arena.

20110102
Sudan Tribune

Doha — Darfur peace mediators have handed compromise proposals to the Sudanese government and rebel groups on the pending issues in order to present a final peace and ceasefire agreement in the upcoming days.

20110102
Sudan Tribune

Juba — Salva Kiir Mayardit, Sudan's First Vice President and president of Southern Sudan government on Friday, assured Abyei citizens of SPLM commitment to resolve the ongoing dispute on the future of the region.Tribune

20110102
RFI

Worshippers have returned to the Coptic church in Alexandria, one day after an apparent suicide bomber killed 21 people.

20110101
This Day

New York — President Barack Obama yesterday "strongly" condemned the new year eve's bomb blast near an Army Barracks in the nation's capital city.

20110102
reuters

Nairobi — Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga departed on Sunday morning to Abuja, Nigeria to undertake his role as the African Union special envoy to resolve the political stalemate in Cote d'Ivoire.

20110102
reuters

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali pirates have hijacked a Mozambican-flagged fishing vessel about 200 nautical miles (370 km) southwest of Comoros in the Indian Ocean, the European Union's anti-piracy taskforce said on Saturday.

20110102
reuters

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Ten people were killed in a stampede in a bar in a South African township during a New Year's Eve celebration, an official said on Saturday.

20110102
reuters

LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria's main militant group, which claimed responsibility for October car bombings in Abuja, said it was not behind the New Year's Eve blast in the capital.

20110102
reuters

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe is likely to postpone a parliamentary election that President Robert Mugabe's party wanted by mid-year in order to allow completion of constitutional reforms, a state-owned newspaper reported on Sunday.

20110102
reuters

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - A U.N. investigation into alleged human rights abuses in Ivory Coast will be fruitless without the cooperation of authorities loyal to incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo, an official in his administration said on Sunday.

20101231
UN News

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) today hailed a new law granting children in the Republic of Congo belonging to indigenous populations a legal basis to access health, education and protection.

20101231
UN News

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today named Karin Landgren of Sweden as his new envoy for Burundi, where she will head the scaled-down United Nations operation tasked with helping the Central African nation consolidate peace and development.