20101206
Analyst

When President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf sent her entire cabinet on 'administrative leave' to allow for reflection and to start with new slate as the administration enters a new political track, the public greeted the news with mixed reactions.

20101206
EA Business

Arusha — The Chairperson of the East African Community (EAC) council of Ministers Hafsa Mossi has warned that despite the improved rains since last year which resulted in a surplus production in the EAC, the region is still not food secure due weak systems in post harvest storage, infrastructure and distribution.

20101207
Independent (Lagos)

Lagos — The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday filed charges against former United States Vice President, Dick Cheney, despite the report by Daily Independent the previous day that Washington is unlikely to release him to face trial in Nigeria.

20101206
Sudan Tribune

Khartoum — The Sudan Armed forces (SAF) and the Sudan People Liberation Army (SPLA) on Monday signed a framework agreement on securing oilfields and related infrastructure in the South.

20101207
IRIN

Nairobi — Thousands of people who fled a 24 November rebel attack in the northeastern Central African Republic (CAR) town of Birao, Vakaga Province, urgently need humanitarian assistance, says a UN official.

20101207
africanews

Lusaka — Zambia's High Court yesterday acquitted former president Frederick Chiluba's wife Regina, on charges of allegedly receiving stolen properties and quashed a three-and-half-year jail term slapped on her by a junior court.

20101207
IRIN

Kigali/Nairobi — Burkina Faso has become the first country to introduce a meningitis vaccine designed specifically for the African continent, where up to 450 million people are at risk from the disease.

20101207
RFI

West African bloc Ecowas on Tuesday suspended Côte d'Ivoire and called on incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo to "yield power without delay."

20101207
allAfrica.com

President Laurent Gbagbo of Cote d'Ivoire rebuffed an offer by the United States to save face and become a respected elder statesman of Africa, choosing instead a "path to isolation" by clinging to power, according to senior U.S. officials who spoke by telephone to AllAfrica.

20101207
africanews

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's protocol chief has been arrested in France at the request of Tripoli on suspicion of embezzlement, AFP said on Tuesday. Nuri Al-Mismari, a former close aide to the veteran Libyan leader, was presented to prosecutors in Versailles near Paris on Monday.

20101207
africanews

Sierra Leone's Vice President Alhaji Samuel Sam- Sumana has fired the Director of Prisons Moses Showers following the dramatic escaped of some 19 hardcore criminals last weekend. Alhaji Sam-Sumana visited the prison accompanied by the Defense minister Paolo Conteh and the Chief Justice Umu Hawa Tejan Jalloh described the incident as a 'disgrace.'

20101207
africanews

Ivory Coast talisman Didier Drogba is to join top football stars Ronaldo and Zinedine Zidane in the 8th Annual Match Against Poverty to be held on 14 December, at the Karaiskakis Stadium in Piraeus, Greece.

20101207
africanews

Ghanaian-born former France international Marcel Desailly has pulled out of the race for the Ghana coaching job due to lack of communication between him and the FA. The World Cup winner was shortlisted as one of five coaches to be interviewed next week.

20101207
africanews

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has expressed concern that Zambian President Rupiah Banda invited indicted Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir to participate in a regional conference scheduled for 15th December.

20101207
africanews

Former Zambia President Fredrick Chiluba's wife, Regina, has been acquitted on graft charges. Regina was on Tuesday morning acquitted on all five counts she was convicted by a magistrate court.

20101207
africanews

The United Nations is moving non-essential staff out of the West African country, Ivory Coast, following the state's disputed presidential election. Some 460 staff would continue to carry out their duties from the Gambia, UN spokesman Martin Nesirky said.

20101207
africanews

Botswana President Khama Ian Khama has strongly condemned the situation in Ivory Coast saying that Laurent Gbagbo should be a "true statesman and step aside".

20101206
SW Radio

A Harare court has been approached to prevent the government's mining corporation from selling Chiadzwa diamonds, mined controversially by the Canadile mining group.

20101206
UN News

Burundi has made significant progress over the past year in moving away from its violent past towards a future of peace, stability and development but security, food, human rights and sexual violence remain matters of concern, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in a new report.

20101207
Af Conf

The postponement of the presidential election until 9 April 2011 means another four months of intensive party politicking and the shelving of plans to reform the oil, gas and electricity sectors. Strategists around President Goodluck Jonathan want time for him to win over his divided party and the country at large.