PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigerian security forces have freed two Russian sailors who were abducted from their vessel in the oil-producing Niger Delta a month ago, a senior security officer said on Thursday.
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - For many Ivorians, it is hard to shake off the feeling that a long overdue election now scheduled for October 31 is just another mirage, tantalisingly close but destined to evaporate as the date approaches.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's power utility Eskom said on Friday it may get an additional 150 billion rand in state support to pay for new power plants and ease an electricity supply shortfall.
CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian human rights group said on Friday an activist had been abducted by members of the security forces in plain clothes but that he had contacted his family after to say he would be freed soon.
RABAT (Reuters) - Three people were injured on Friday when the roof of a Moroccan mosque collapsed during prayers to end the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, media reports said.
ISMAILIA, Egypt (Reuters) - Egyptian police shot and killed a Sudanese man as he tried to slip into Israel on Friday, security sources said, at least the 32nd migrant killed at the sensitive frontier so far this year.
LUANDA (Reuters) - The campaign for Angola's 2012 elections is off to a ill-tempered start with the ruling MPLA party and the opposition UNITA party accusing each other of dirty tactics that threaten a return to violence in the oil producing nation.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian transport officials including the transport minister will visit France next week to discuss potential investment in subway, rail and other transport projects, the state news agency said on Saturday.
Zimbabwe wants normal ties with Western powers critical of its policies but will press ahead with a plan to hand control of foreign companies to local blacks, President Mugabe said. Mugabe that his government was waiting for positive movement from the US and EU to mend ties soured over the last decade by rows over the seizures of white-owned farms for landless blacks and charges of rights abuses and election fraud.
A set of U.N. goals aimed at drastically reducing poverty and hunger worldwide by 2015 are achievable, despite setbacks caused by the global financial and economic crises, a draft document said. The 27-page draft declaration on the U.N. MDGs is expected to be formally adopted at a September 20-22 summit meeting at the UN.
Two senior Guinean election officials were sentenced to a year's imprisonment each over irregularities in the first round of the presidential election in June, two political parties said.
The murder rate has fallen by 8.6% over the past year in South Africa, latest statistics show. Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa said the total number of murders was now about a third lower than 14 years ago. He also said that 46 of South Africa's 50 most wanted criminals had been arrested.
Ivory Coast's President Laurent Gbagbo signed a decree on Thursday validating definitive voter lists in the West African country, removing one of the last hurdles before long-delayed elections can take place. A presidential vote in the world's top cocoa grower is scheduled for October 31.
Inter Milan and Cameroonian-born goal poacher, Samuel Fils Eto'o is the second-highest paid footballer in the Italian Serie A, according to Gazzetta dello Sport.
Former Senegalese international El Hadji Diouf has stated his intension to stage a comeback to the national team. The Blackburn Rovers strker told Ivorian tabloid Spoire Ivoire he just went on an international football sabbatical and feels the time is ripe for him to be with the Teranga Lions.
Former Nigerian Football Federation president Sani Lulu Abdullahi and his three associates have pleaded not guilty to charges of corruption at an Abuja Federal High Court.
United Nations aid agencies and their partners today launched an appeal for more than $14 million to help the victims of flooding in Burkina Faso rebuild their homes and livelihoods over the next six month. The emergency humanitarian action plan unveiled today estimates that about 105,000 Burkinabé require assistance as a result of floods which have struck the impoverished West African country since early July.
The report documenting the most serious human rights violations committed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) between 1993 and 2003 will be made public on 1 October, the United Nations announced today.
The United Nations refugee agency today voiced alarm over worsening security in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, where fighting between forces of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and armed Islamists has killed more than 230 civilians and wounded at least 400 others during the past two weeks.
