ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria will report Iran to the U.N. Security Council if it finds any evidence that an illegal arms shipment it seized two weeks ago violated U.N. sanctions, Nigerian Foreign Minister Odein Ajumogobia said on Friday.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's prime minister unveiled his cabinet on Friday as he sought to tackle insecurity in the virtually lawless country, but some lawmakers said the new ministers might not be approved by parliament.
KIGALI (Reuters) - An opponent of Rwandan President Paul Kagame will go on trial in 30 days, an official said on Friday, and authorities are seeking Western help in investigating another critic who was portrayed in the movie "Hotel Rwanda".
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - With up to 17 African countries facing national elections next year, politics will loom large in the minds of investors but the risk of pre-poll fiscal blow-outs may not be the big threat many imagine.
ATHENS (Reuters) - Ten activists trying to take aid from Libya to Gaza jumped on board a ship about to set sail to Greece, the vessel's managers said on Friday, denying reports the aid workers were held against their will.
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Africa has "applied" to join the four-member "BRIC" grouping of fast-growing emerging markets, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said at the Group of 20 meeting on Friday.
RABAT (Reuters) - A significant level of rainfall over the main grain growing areas in North Africa has encouraged farmers in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia to speed up the sowing season which ends in few weeks, growers said on Friday.
Trial opened Friday in Kinshasa for eight police officers accused of the murder of leading Congolese human rights activist Floribert Chebeya last June. Chebeya, who headed the prominent human rights organisation La Voix des Sans Voix (VSV - The Voice of the Voiceless), disappeared on June 1 after going to police headquarters in Kinshasa.
There is still no clear winner, almost a week after Guineans voted in the West African country's presidential run-off election, between former prime minister Cello Diallo and long time opposition leader Alpa Conde, last Sunday.
Chichewa becomes one of the few African languages that have been used to localise the popular English Google version. Gmail, Google Maps and Google are now being enjoyed in Malawi's national local language.
The Ghana Football Association and the Ministry of Sports have locked horns over who is vested with the power to nominate a candidate to contest a CAF Executive Committee position. The FA presented its president Kwesi Nyantakyi for the vacant seat but Minister of Sports insist on football legend Abedi Ayew Pele.
The Mo Ibrahim Foundation is to host a major celebration of Africa in the island nation of Mauritius. Mauritius has ranked first in the Ibrahim Index of African Governance every year since it was launched four years ago.
Light, with a great and acute sense of smell, giant African pouched rats are being trained to sniff out landmines in fields in Tanzania. The country is campaigning to train the highly effective 'weapon' to be used in ordinance clearing.
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Southern Nigeria said foreign hostages kidnapped from an oil rig this week were in good health but would be in its custody "for a while."
Kenya is on the move to launch a climate exchange platform which could earn the country close to $2bn (£1.2bn) a year, for the first time on the African continent. This project will facilitate the trading of carbon credits and help tackle climate change.
Four people including two West Africans have been arrested in the United Kingdom for immigration offences, UK Border Agency official said. The arrest follows a raid by officers targeting contract cleaners working illegally at Hamleys toy store on Regent Street in central London.
RABAT (Reuters) - Moroccan security forces were deployed in large numbers in Western Sahara on Tuesday, residents said, after deadly clashes put the dispute over the Moroccan-controlled territory under international scrutiny.
MOMBASA (Reuters) - A Kenyan court on Tuesday ordered the release of nine suspected Somali pirates, saying Kenya lacked jurisdiction to try them for crimes committed outside its territory.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - An Ethiopian rebel group said on Tuesday it had killed 267 soldiers since the beginning of October, in its first such claim since the government signed a peace deal with one its factions last month.
PARIS (Reuters) - France's highest court reopened the way on Tuesday for a legal investigation into tens of millions of euros worth of assets held in the country by three African presidents or their families.
