ROME – The United Nations World Food Programme has airlifted emergency food assistance into Liberia to feed refugees fleeing the political crisis in neighbouring Cote d’Ivoire as part of a rapid scale up of humanitarian operations in response to the evolving humanitarian crisis.
To suppress any continued spread of the yellow fever, government has dispatched a national task force to the affected districts in the north to sensitise people and identify any new case of the disease.
Security operatives in the eastern town of Busia have arrested three suspected Somalis believed to be linked to the al-shabaab terrorist group who were reportedly attempting to sneak into the country.
ABIDJAN/GENEVA (Reuters) - A senior United Nations official warned incumbent Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo and other senior officials on Friday they may be held criminally accountable for human rights violations.
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigerian police have arrested 92 suspected members of a radical Islamist sect after a string of attacks this week in the northeast of Africa's most populous nation, a police spokesman said on Friday.
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria has distributed $1 billion of its windfall savings from oil revenues to three tiers of government, in addition to a usual monthly allocation, the finance ministry said on Friday.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Queues stretched for kilometres at immigration offices in South Africa on Friday as thousands of Zimbabweans tried to meet a year-end deadline to file papers for legalising their stay in the country.
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - President Jakaya Kikwete said on Friday he was appointing a team to work on a new constitution for Tanzania, after growing calls for changes to the country's political system.
BEO GARNAGLAY, Liberia (Reuters) - In a remote village in Liberia's Nimba Mountains, about 20 men armed with machetes prepare to walk through the forest into neighbouring Ivory Coast -- to fight for anyone willing to pay them.
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir made a rare public appeal on Friday to opposition parties to join a broad based-government just days ahead of a vote which will likely see the south move towards independence.
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (Reuters) - A bomb killed 21 people outside a church in the Egyptian city of Alexandria early on Saturday, and the interior ministry said a foreign-backed suicide bomber may have been responsible.
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.
ABUJA (Reuters) - A bomb at a crowded market in Nigeria's capital Abuja killed at least four people and injured more than a dozen during New Year's Eve celebrations late on Friday.
KHARTOUM, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) -- Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on Friday called for formation of a broad-base government that includes all Sudanese political parties to unite the county's internal front.
ABUJA, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) -- Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday night condemned the bomb blast in the capital city and ordered the nation's security services to rise to the occasion and arrest this new and dangerous challenge to the country's peace and stability.
BUJUMBURA, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Integrated Office in Burundi (BINUB) is migrating from the United Nations Office in Burundi (BNUB) as of Saturday, a senior UN official said.
JOHANNESBURG, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) -- South Africa will on Saturday assume its seat as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council for 2011 and 2012.
