JOS/MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Explosions in Nigeria's central region killed 32 people on Christmas Eve and six people died in attacks on two churches in the northeast of Africa's most populous nation, officials said on Saturday.
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's attorney general plans to set up a commission to investigate possible treason charges against locals over briefings with U.S. diplomats that are part of confidential State Department cables released by WikiLeaks.
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - The government of Ivory Coast incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo said on Saturday a threat of force by West African leaders calling for him to step down after last month's disputed election was "unjust".
The US President, Barrack Obama held a telephone conversation with President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria over the crisis in Ivory Coast, commending the role played by Nigeria and the Economic Community of West African States [ECOWAS] in resolving the Ivorian crisis. Obama: Africa's future is up to Africans themselves
Members of Parliament in eastern African country of Kenya have voted overwhelmingly for the country to pull out of the treaty which created the International Criminal Court in The Hague. The move comes a week after the ICC prosecutor named six Kenyans he accuses of being behind post-election violence.
Ismaila Lo a Senegalese solo artist and lead vocal of "Iso Lo" has said that Africans must be ready to relinquish power to opponents to avoid unnecessary unrest in the continent.
The UN Security Council has recommended an additional 4000 African Union troops to bolster the African Union Mission in Somalia which is backing the weak Transitional Federal Government that is fighting radical groups.
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria has borrowed $900 million from Export-Import Bank of China (China Eximbank) to fund railway and security projects, the country's finance minister said on Thursday.
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Darfur rebels clashed with Sudanese government troops on Thursday, three days after announcing they had resumed ceasefire negotiations, rebel and humanitarian sources said.
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - One of the sons of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has taken the unusual step of publicly denying he is caught in a feud with his brothers, after months of speculation about a power struggle within the family.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - A junior Kenyan minister stepped aside on Friday after he was named among a group of lawmakers being investigated over allegations of involvement in drug trafficking.
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzania's state-run power utility said on Friday a shortage of natural gas supply to turbines has led to a 40 megawatt deficit on the national grid and forced it to ration power for up to 10 hours a day.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya Airways said it had averted a strike by some of its workers after the airline's union dropped demands to further backdate an agreed pay rise.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - China has invited Africa's largest economy, South Africa, to join the four-member "BRIC" grouping of fast-growing emerging markets, its state news agency reported on Friday.
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Netherlands said on Friday it had sent a naval ship to the Ivory Coast which could evacuate Dutch and other European citizens if post-election violence worsened in the West African nation.
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese authorities beat and tear gassed opposition party members on their way to Friday prayers in the latest crackdown ahead of a January 9 referendum likely to split Africa's largest state, party officials said.
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Incumbent Ivory Coast leader Laurent Gbagbo faces a cash crunch that could make it hard for him to continue paying the wages of soldiers who back him, after the West African regional central bank cut his access to funds.
Pretoria — With the deadline for Zimbabwean nationals to regularise their stay in South Africa fast approaching, Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma has once again stressed that the 31 December cut-off date would not be extended.
