ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast will hold the decisive second round of its long-delayed presidential election on November 28, a week later than previously announced, prime minister Guillaume Soro announced on Tuesday.
LUBUMBASHI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - More than 40 people were killed in Congo when a truck overturned in a town near the country's southern border with Angola, U.N.-backed Radio Okapi reported on Tuesday.
Abuja — The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) met with President Goodluck Jonathan last night but the meeting failed to reach a compromise to stop the warning strike that begins today.
Sudan's national intelligence and Security services director on Monday asked Southern Sudan administration to arrest Darfur rebel officers who are allegedly in South Sudan. The Sudanese spy chief Mohamed Atta Al-Moula urged Southern Sudan to arrest immediately Darfur rebels who are present in Southern Sudan because of the interest of sustainable peace between the north and the south.
Police in South Africa's Hillbrow area have pleaded with the public for backing to hunt down a man accused of committing over 10 rapes since August, a Gauteng spokesperson said on Tuesday.
A Federal High Court in Lagos, South West Nigeria ruled that the recent amendments made on the 1999 Constitution by the National Assembly cannot become law and operational without the assent of the President. Justice Okechukwu Okeke consequently declared the 2010 Constitution Amendment Act null and void.
Guinea's national election body CENI said the results of the West African country's presidential runoff election held on Sunday could take five days to emerge as against three days required by law. This means results due for Wednesday may now wait till Friday.
Zimbabwe's Prime Minister, Morgan Tsvangirai, has received an internationally recognized democracy medal from the International Association of Political Consultants (IAPC)'s 2010 edition.
Five crew members of Afren, an offshore oil rig firm in Nigeria have been kidnapped by gunmen in the country injuring two others, the company said on Monday.
The United States has promised Sudan to remove from its list of states sponsors of terrorism if Khartoum ensures two key referendums take place on time.
Guineans voted peacefully on Sunday in a presidential run-off election to return the military run West African country to democratic rule. The run-off is between former Prime Minister Cellou Dalein Diallo and long time opposition leader, Alpha Conde.
The government of Mali has joined forces with Mauritania in a fight against al-Qaeda through the establishment of the first ever joint patrols between the Malian and Mauritanian armies.
Ivory Coast ex-President Henri Konan Bédié who finished third with 25% vote, called on his supporters and sympathisers to vote for Alassane Ouattara, former Prime Minister and candidate to face off against incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo in a second round run-off slated for Nov.21.
Nairobi — The runoff of the presidential election will be held on November 21, 2010, the Chairman of Cote d'Ivoire's Constitutional Council Prof Paul Yao Ndré has said.
Kampala — SOMALI militants Al-Shabaab have issued a fresh warning to attack Kampala and Bujumbura if Uganda and Burundi do not immediately withdraw their troops from the capital Mogadishu.
President Jakaya Kikwete yesterday morning took the oath of office for his second and final five-year term, with an impassioned appeal to fellow Tanzanians to forget their political differences and forge national unity to foster economic prosperity.
Several celebrities have said they are boycotting Botswana over allegations the country is abusing Kalahari Bushmen. X-FILES star Gillian Anderson and British actress Joanna Lumley are among those that have sworn not t travel to the country or wear its diamonds.
The people of the West African state of Guinea are going to the polls for a presidential run-off election. It had been hailed as the country's first democratic election since independence from France in 1958. The candidates - former Prime Minister Cellou Dalein Diallo and the opposition leader, Alpha Conde - come from Guinea's two largest ethnic groups.
Brazzaville — An epidemic akin to polio, which has raged for nearly two weeks in the main commercial city in southern Congo, Pointe-Noire, has already killed eight, and several dozen cases have been reported, say health officials.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has congratulated the people of Tanzania for the peaceful conclusion of the recent general elections following today's confirmation of the official results.
