20100925
africanews

More than two million people have been displaced after authorities had to open flood gates on two rivers, a government official said on Friday. The flooding was caused after authorities opened flood gates of the Challawa and Tiga dams in neighbouring Kano state to avoid overflowing following heavy rains.

20100925
africanews

Celebrated Jamaican poet and musician Mutabaruka whose real name is Allan Hope will participate in the Poetry Africa Tour which starts on September 26.

20100924
allafrica

Harare — ZIMBABWE'S business organisations, labour and politicians could be in a catch 22 situation as tension around holding next year's general election hots up.

20100924
allAfrica.com

The new head of Guinea's election commission has announced that postponed second round of the presidential elections will now be hold on October 10.

20100924
allafrica

Rukoko — Several mysterious killings in Burundi, where memories of civil war are still fresh, have spread fear and disrupted livelihoods, while authorities have sought to play down talk of renewed armed insurrection, blaming some of the deaths on bandits.

20100924
UN News

World leaders and high-ranking officials meeting at the United Nations today renewed their support for the parties to the 2005 peace accord that ended Sudan's north-south civil war as they embark on the critical final phase of the agreement - the upcoming referenda on the self-determination of southern Sudan and the central region of Abyei.

20100924
America.gov

President Barack Obama says Sudan's leaders face a choice between war, continued isolation and international pressure, or peace that can open the way to economic and agricultural development, global integration and improved ties with the United States.

20100924
allafrica.com

With five years remaining to achieve the targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has made it clear that a concerted, multilateral effort to save the lives of over 16 million women and children, and improve the livelihoods of women and girls, will be the focus.

20100923
reuters

MOMBASA (Reuters) - A Kenyan court convicted seven Somalis on Thursday and sentenced them to five years in prison for hijacking a Spanish ship in 2009.

20100924
reuters

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The African Union urged the United Nations on Thursday to put war crime charges against Sudan's leader on hold, warning they could destabilize Africa's biggest nation and endanger an upcoming referendum on southern independence.

20100924
reuters

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast could again be a popular tourist spot and attract millions of tourists annually if elections finally end the political instability that scared them off, its tourism minister said on Thursday.

20100924
reuters

DURBAN (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling African National Congress has decided to press ahead with a media review tribunal that has been widely criticised as a move to muzzle the press reminiscent of apartheid-era censorship regulations.

20100924
reuters

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's Finance Minister Tendai Biti said the economy will grow by 8.1 percent this year, up from a revised projection of 5.4 percent due to a revival in the agriculture sector, state media reported on Friday.

20100924
reuters

DURBAN (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling ANC will investigate ways for the state to take greater control of the country's mining industry, a senior party official said on Friday.

20100924
africanews

Prominent advocates for anti-malaria efforts in Africa cautioned the United Nations, that recent successes against malaria - however significant - are still fragile. Both the malaria parasite and the mosquitoes that carry it can develop resistance, to drugs as well as to insecticides, and therefore the fight against malaria must gain rather than lose momentum.

20100924
africanews

A presidential hopeful of the Democratic Republic of Congo Dr Francis Bent Mboyo Ndombo has said the recent UN report uncovering mass human rights abuses in the country including the possible geno

20100924
africanews

Africa is striving to transform itself politically and economically for the benefit of its people, the chairman of the African Union, Bingu wa Mutharika has told the General Assembly of the United Nations, saying leaders in the continent were working to eradicate hunger, disease and poverty.

20100924
africanews

Prince Johnson, a former notorious warlord of West Africa nation Liberia, wants to stand for the presidency of his country next year. Now an elected senator, Johnson said no rule bars him from standing since he is not the first warlord in the world to go for such top post.

20100924
africanews

The HIV/AIDS situation is improving in rural Malawi. The Malawi council of Churches (MCC), an interfaith Christian organization told AfricaNews it was encouraging to note that cases of people being infected and affected were declining as compared to those in earlier years.

20100924
africanews

The Zambian government is planning to close two camps for refugees from neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo over the next month which holds over 40,000 people, UN refugee agency has said.