UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon pressed debt-ridden donor countries on Monday not to cut aid to the poor despite their budgetary woes.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew himself up at the gates of the presidential palace in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Monday but there were no other casualties, police said.
LONDON (Reuters) - Ghana is making good progress in talks with Chinese investors interested in buying a stake in the West African nation's oil assets, its deputy energy minister said on Monday.
LAGOS, Sept 20 (Reuters Life!) - It may share many of its words and basic grammar with English, but a perplexed look descends across the face of most newcomers to Nigeria the first time they are addressed in Pidgin.
BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mauritanian aircraft attacking suspected al Qaeda insurgents in Mali at the weekend killed two civilians, a Malian defence source said on Monday, days after kidnappers crossed into Mali with seven foreigners abducted in Niger.
LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigerian state governor Abubakar Bukola Saraki entered the presidential election race on Monday, the fourth candidate from the ruling party in the predominantly Muslim north to take on southern incumbent Goodluck Jonathan.
Dutch Police arrested a Somali-born British man on suspicion of terrorism. The man was arrested at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport en route from England's Liverpool to Entebbe, Uganda. Reports say the man may have links with a foreign terror group, possibly Somalia's Al-Qaeda linked group, Al-Shabaab.
Internet search giant, Google, has launched the Wolof interface for Google Web Search in Senegal. Forty-five volunteers in collaboration with Google Senegal and the University of Gaston Berger of Saint Louis in northern Senegal teamed up for the translation marathon.
Days after Malawi's leader, Bingu wa Mutharika, held talks with Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the country has signed an agreement to explore minerals in the landlocked African country.
Ghana and Olympic Marseille midfielder Andre Ayew has thrown his weight behind Marcel Desailly to fill up the vacant coaching position of the Black Stars. The youngster said the former Chelsea defender has a lot to offer the West African nation.
Former South Africa president Thabo Mbeki might be testifying in The Hague about the circumstances under which ex-president of Liberia Charles Taylor resigned.
President Jacob Zuma of South Africa has condemned the in-house fighting among the leadership of the ruling Africa National Congress (ANC) and stressed for unity within the party. He called for a return to "revolutionary discipline" in the ANC at a gathering of thousands of party delegates in Durban.
The Togolese Sports Federation has suspended an assistant coach of Togo's soccer team for three years after he took a fake team masquerading as the national side to play a match in Bahrain that ended 3-0 against the West African tiny country. The match took place on September 7.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Insurgents in Somalia's capital Mogadishu beat guards and looted equipment from one radio station and seized control of another on Saturday in the latest attacks on media in the anarchic Horn of Africa nation.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Suleiman met Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal in Saudi Arabia this month in an attempt to push for reconciliation between Palestinian factions, the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat reported.
VALLETTA (Reuters) - Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, the Libyan man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing "remains a sick man", although he is in better shape than might be expected, according to a victim's father who visited him in Tripoli.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A crowded minibus taxi collided head-on with a truck early on Saturday in South Africa, killing 22 Malawians who were travelling back to their home country, the South African Press Association said.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Trade unions have called off a strike set for Monday by workers at Kenya's sole power supplier after reaching a deal over most of their grievances, a power sector union leader said on Sunday.
