20101105
africanews

Five Israelis - four tourists and a guide - were hurt in an accident in Morocco after a moving tour bus they were sitting in hit a passing truck near the city of Marrakesh - southwestern Morocco.

20101105
africanews

The European Union office in Zimbabwe has dismissed claims previously made by the country's state controlled Herald newspaper that the European bloc had accepted President Mugabe's unilaterally appointed envoy.

20101102
SAPA

Johannesburg — A civil society gathering hosted by Cosatu last week had taken an "oppositionist" stance toward the ANC-led government, party secretary general Gwede Mantashe said on Tuesday.

20101101
Leadership

Abuja — Severe flooding in July-October could result in food crisis in Sokoto, Jigawa and Kebbi states, says a Famine Early Warning Systems Network report entitled: Nigeria Food Security Outlook, October 2010 to March 2011, monitored yesterday by LEADERSHIP.

20101102
africanews

President Barack Obama has renewed sanctions agains the Sudanese government in Khartoum.

The following is the text of a letter he sent to the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and the President of the U.S. Senate, announcing his decision:

20101103
Daily News

CHAMA Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) said on Tuesday it had retained 78.24 per cent of the constituent seats in parliament after losing 51 to the opposition and declared that it accepted the results.

20101103
Daily Trust

Ogun State governor Otumba Gbenga Daniel, who was at the weekend prematurely named the next chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum [NGF] by a group of governors loyal to President Goodluck Jonathan, may be edged out by Gombe State governor Muhammad Danjuma Goje as members of the forum meet in Abuja today to elect a chairman.

20101102
Addis Fortune

Hydropower projects like the Tekeze Dam are expected to go a long way in providing in the country's energy needs.

20101102
Daily News

Eight Tunisians have been sentenced to two to six years in prison for incitement to join a terrorist organization. Aged 23 to 35, the defendants were tried under the Terrorism Act in Tunis, according to their lawyer Me Samir Ben Amor.

20101102
africanews

Ten suspects are in the grips of the Ashanti Mampong Divisional Police Command in Ghana for their alleged involvement in cable theft within the municipality.

20101102
africanews

The Chairman of Kenya's Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC), Mr Bethwel Kiplagat has stepped aside to allow a tribunal to investigate allegations levelled against him. Mr Kiplagat becomes the third high profile figure to lose his position in less than a month.

20101102
africanews

Sudan detained nine Darfur activists among a prominent human rights lawyer, just weeks ahead of a southern referendum timetable. "The total number arrested is nine activists -- all of them from Darfur. One of them is a very active lawyer in the Darfur lawyer's association," a civil society leader Elbaqir Mokhtar said.

20101102
africanews

A Tanzanian court has jailed Daudi Gindishi, 41, three years in prison after he was convicted of voting twice during general elections on Sunday. The Maswa district court has said the penalty should be a lesson to other people with similar habits. Local media reported the judgment happened on Monday.

20101102
africanews

The Djibouti republic is training 600 Somali police to support the Somali government bring peace in Somalia. The African Union commission deputy special representative Wafula Wamunyinyi told reporters in Nairobi on Monday that two hundred police men will take three months training in Manyani, Kenya.

20101102
africanews

Nigerian artists, P-Squre has dominated the nominations list for the 2010 MTV Africa Music Awards with Zain (MAMA), according to the press release from TV Networks Africa and Zain.

20101102
africanews

Tension was high on Monday in Ivory Coast as about 20 million Ivorians awaited provisional results from Sunday's presidential election judged by observers as peaceful, free and fair. The elections commission (CEI) constitutionally has a maximum of three days to announce the complete results.

20101101
MediaGlobal

The fourth United Nations Conference on Least Developed Countries (LDCs) is approaching, and various committees are being launched to ensure the best possible outcome can be reached. While there seems to be a long way to go for countries to achieve graduation, there is hope.

20101101
RFI

Kampala — The battle lines have been drawn as candidates bidding to be the next President of Uganda hit the road on an all-out offensive to appeal to the electorate.

20101101
RFI

Election officials in Côte D'Ivoire say they're working as fast as they can to announce election results, in a bid to restrict violence. Voters went to the presidential polls Sunday for the country's first election in a decade.

20101030
Citizen

Dar es Salaam — It is already being billed as one of the fiercest and most closely contested campaigns since the first multiparty General Election in 1995.