20100925
Nation

The United States is strengthening its relations with two breakaway regions in Somalia while also urging Japan to help Kenya meet the costs of prosecuting Somali pirates.

20100925
New Vision

Kampala — THE Police and other security agencies in the country foiled a planned second attack on the country by arresting al-Qaeda's top leaders on September 15, in Kampala.

20100926
africanews

Sixteen parents will answer charges of malicious damage after razing down houses belonging to three alleged witchcraft teachers, AfricaNews has learnt.

20100926
africanews

Namibia coach Tom Saintfiet has finally been confirmed as the substantive Warriors coach after a Zimbabwe Football Association, ZIFA, board meeting held in Harare over the weekend. The Belgian's appointment ends a week long stand-off between FA officials over a national and an outsider.

20100926
africanews

The Al-Qaeda linked group in Somalia Al-shabaab has arrested 11 men in the regions of Baay and Bakol in Southern part of Somalia, according to VOA. Those arrested include businessmen and elders of the community.

20100925
reuters

Some two million people in northern Nigeria have been displaced after river authorities opened floodgates at two dams, officials said on Saturday. Water from the Challawa and Tiga dams has affected about 5,000 nearby villages, covering swathes of farmland and sending residents seeking shelter on higher ground.

20100925
UN New

Somalia's President told the General Assembly today that the transitional Government he heads is striving to restore State institutions and provide services to the people despite the violence perpetrated by insurgents, and urged the United Nations to act decisively against groups engaging in acts of terrorism.

20100925
reuters

Somalia's President told the General Assembly today that the transitional Government he heads is striving to restore State institutions and provide services to the people despite the violence perpetrated by insurgents, and urged the United Nations to act decisively against groups engaging in acts of terrorism.

20100925
RFI

Some two million people in northern Nigeria have been displaced after river authorities opened floodgates at two dams, officials said on Saturday. Water from the Challawa and Tiga dams has affected about 5,000 nearby villages, covering swathes of farmland and sending residents seeking shelter on higher ground.

20100925
reuters

DAKAR (Reuters) - Up to a quarter of children in parts of Chad are facing acute hunger despite an easing of the overall famine threat across the Sahel region of Africa, UNICEF warned on Friday, calling on donors to provide more funds.

20100925
reuters

GAZA (Reuters) - Egypt freed on Friday a top Hamas security official after holding him for 10 days on what Cairo media described as allegations of involvement in smuggling to the Gaza Strip and the killing of an Egyptian border guard.

20100925
reuters

BUJUMBURA (Reuters) - A series of macabre civilian murders in Burundi is threatening the central African nation's fragile political stability, and has raised fears that a new rebellion might be brewing.

20100925
reuters

ISMAILIA, Egypt (Reuters) - Dozens of armed Bedouins surrounded a police station in central Sinai on Friday, locking in 15 police officers and setting a car ablaze in the worst bout of violence in the region for nearly two months.

20100925
reuters

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - The head of the U.N. mission to Ivory Coast certified its final voter list as "fair and transparent" on Friday, adding momentum to plans to hold elections at last after years of failure.

20100925
reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States is increasing ties with two semi-autonomous regions in Somalia, hoping to build stability for the embattled central government and African Union forces deployed in the virtually lawless nation, a top U.S. diplomat said on Friday.

20100925
reuters

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Rwanda, which had threatened to withdraw its peacekeepers from Sudan's western Darfur region, has decided to leave its troops in the conflict-torn territory, a top U.N. official said on Friday.

20100925
reuters

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Leaders of north and south Sudan vowed to work for peace on Friday as U.S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders pressured them to hold a referendum on southern independence peacefully and on time.

20100925
reuters

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A moderate Islamist group that signed a power sharing deal with Somalia's government in March this year to help quell a raging insurgency has withdrawn from the administration, days after the prime minister quit.

20100925
reuters

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - South Sudanese people will lose the right to be citizens in the north if their region votes for independence in a referendum, the information minister said, raising fears for southerners living in northern settlements.

20100925
africanews

Rwanda, which had threatened to withdraw its peacekeepers from Sudan's western Darfur region, has decided to leave its troops in the conflict-torn territory, a top U.N. official said. U.N. Secretary-General went to Rwanda earlier this month after President Paul Kagame threatened to end participation in a joint U.N./AU peacekeeping force in Darfur.