A rebel leader in the West African country of Ivory Coast said Identity Cards being issued to voters ahead of an October 31 election have ended all the disputes which had divided the country into two. The leader of the New Forces rebels declared that the dark ages are gone.
A Rwandan rebel leader was arrested in France today on an International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant on suspicion of war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) last year.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - More than three quarters of Kenyans expect their new constitution to help in the fight against corruption a study showed on Monday, but some said the effort would be derailed by failure to implement the law fully.
Washington, DC — Fifty years after independence, Africa's most populous nation is at a crossroad – heading towards an election that can either empower a reform-minded public or entrench a system that has failed the people.
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - French authorities have arrested a Rwandan accused of leading a rebel group that carried out mass rapes in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the International Criminal Court prosecutor said on Monday.
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda's government said on Monday it had seized copies of a book critical of President Yoweri Museveni written by the sister of the country's opposition leader on grounds it could spark social unrest.
LAGOS (Reuters) - Britain needs to enforce money laundering regulations more strictly after some of its leading high street banks accepted millions of pounds in deposits from corrupt Nigerian politicians, a graft watchdog said on Monday.
LAGOS (Reuters) - When Nigeria's central bank sacked eight of the country's most senior bankers last year during an unprecedented $4 billion bailout, many doubted they would be prosecuted, let alone jailed.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Malaysian state oil company Petronas has asked Ethiopia to approve an agreed deal to sell all its oil and gas concessions in the country to a locally owned firm, a senior government official said on Monday.
CAIRO (Reuters) - The European Union has granted Egypt 609 million euros to be spent between 2009 and 2013, with most of the money to be spent on economic and social development projects, the government said on Monday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Twenty-nine countries show alarming levels of hunger and more than a billion people were hungry in 2009, according to a new report on global hunger.
YAOUNDE (Reuters) - African governments should avoid rushing into big land lease deals with foreign investors or risk deepening poverty and ramping up social tensions, an official at the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Office said.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa risks losing its status as Africa's agriculture hub as uncertainty over its land reform programme undermines its competitiveness on the continent, the deputy agriculture minister said.
The European Union is set to grant new aid funds to Egypt under cooperation programmes worth 1.1 billion dollars (€800 million euros), ENPI Info Centre said.
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has called on citizens of West Africa's most populous country to embrace their culture and avoid the tendency "to think and believe that only things from foreign lands are good, modern or hip."
Ghana's former All Blacks coach and SA's Golden Lions current boss John Mitchell has been stabbed by prowlers over the weekend in his apartment in South Africa, his club announced on Monday.
Somali pirates have seized a Japanese ship with 20 Filipino crews on board in the Somali Basin, the European Union naval force said on Monday. A Danish warship was sent to investigative the Panama-flagged MV IZUMI ship early Monday after owners received a distress signal on Sunday.
