20101026
africanews

The Economic Community of West African States - ECOWAS - is committed to a peaceful resolution of the electoral issues in Guinea and the subsequent enthronement of democracy, communications director for the sub regional body Sonny Ugoh said. Postponement of the Sunday polls spark violence in the country.

20101026
Sudan Tribune

Washington — The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) special summit on Sudan has been moved from Nairobi to Addis Ababa in a bid to avert a diplomatic row over the attendance of Sudanese president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir.

20101026
africanews

Unknown gunmen have shot dead three shop owners and wounded three of their shop assistants in a shop attack in Cape Town in South Africa.

20101026
africanews

Egyptian opposition Wafd party on Monday reported that state TV has refused to air advertisements from the opposition and the print shops working for the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) had been asked not to print Wafd campaign literature, signaling a squeeze on opposition campaigning before a November election.

20101026
africanews

At least eight assailants have been killed after the rebels carried out a rare attack on a UN peacekeepers' base in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo over the weekend, said an emailed statement from the UN mission Monusco.

20101026
africanews

Pre-election fever has intensified in the Ivory Coast as the campaigns for the presidential elections scheduled for Oct. 31 draw to a close this week. Millions of Ivorians are glued to their TV watching televised rallies and candidates' speeches.

20101025
new vision

EAST African states have been advised to go slow in signing the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) unless they are satisfied with its content.
The European Union is reforming its trade deals with the African, Caribbean and Pacific Countries (ACP), which have existed for over a half a century.

20101025
new vision

OVER 200 MPs from Commonwealth member countries in Africa are to meet in Kampala this week to discuss maternal health and women representation in leadership.

20101025
East African

Nairobi — On Monday, January 25, the bell tolls for the start of the third and final round between the two bulls of Uganda's politics.

20101025
reuters

NAIROBI (Reuters) - The mayor of Nairobi was arrested on Monday to face charges over the fraudulent purchase of land to serve as a new cemetery for the Kenyan capital in the country's latest high profile corruption case.

20101025
reuters

HASTINGS, Sierra Leone (Reuters) - In a patch of freshly cleared bush a short drive outside the capital Freetown, U.S. trainers look on as Sierra Leonean troops crawl over red laterite soil and square their rifles at imagined targets.

20101025
reuters

CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinea deployed extra security forces to parts of the capital Conakry on Monday after a weekend of looting and rioting fuelled by an open-ended delay to its presidential run-off election.

20101025
reuters

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's government said on Monday it was up to President Jacob Zuma to decide whether to make changes to his cabinet, but declined to address media speculation that key figures could leave in a reshuffle.

20101025
reuters

LAGOS (Reuters) - Cholera has killed more than 1,500 people in Nigeria since January in one of the worst outbreaks in years, with heavy rains spreading the disease particularly in poor northern states, the United Nations said on Monday.

20101025
reuters

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Around 50 rebels carried out a rare attack on a U.N. peacekeepers' base in eastern Congo at the weekend and eight assailants were killed when peacekeepers fired back, the U.N. mission said on Monday.

20101025
reuters

BERLIN (Reuters) - Somali pirates have freed the hijacked German merchant vessel Beluga Fortune and its 16-strong crew without getting a ransom payment, Bremen-based owner Beluga Shipping said on Monday, a day after the bulk carrier was taken.

20101025
reuters

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Sub-Sahara African countries should consider tempering expansionary fiscal policy now that economic recovery is under way across much of the continent, the International Monetary Fund said on Monday.

20101025
reuters

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. peacekeepers monitoring a fragile 2005 peace deal between north and south Sudan could not stop new hostilities between the northern and southern armies, the U.N. peacekeeping chief said on Monday.

20101025
africanews

Suspected Islamist sect members on Sunday attacked a police station in a remote part of Yobe state, resulting in a gun battle with officers, authorities said, in the latest such incident in recent months.

20101025
East African

Nairobi — On Monday, January 25, the bell tolls for the start of the third and final round between the two bulls of Uganda's politics.