20100906
Unamid

The security situation remains tense following separate incidents over the weekend.
Shortly before midnight on 3 September, reports were received that a firefight broke out in the Hamadiya internally displaced persons (IDP) camp in Zalingei, West Darfur. The shooting ceased at approximately 08:00 hours on 4 September.

20100906
reuters

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa will continue talks with China on Tuesday to attract new investment into agro-processing plants and find a market for the country's surplus maize, the agriculture minister said on Monday.

20100906
reuters

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Dozens are feared to have died when two boats capsized in two separate incidents in recent days in Democratic Republic of Congo, authorities in the central African country said on Monday.

20100906
reuters

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's former police chief Jackie Selebi can appeal his conviction for taking a bribe from a drug kingpin, a judge ruled on Monday.

20100906
reuters

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's general prosecutor said on Monday he had referred 11 officials from the Culture Ministry to a Cairo court to be charged with negligence that led to the theft of a Van Gogh painting worth an estimated $55 million.

20100906
reuters

LUANDA (Reuters) - Angola's ruling MPLA party brushed aside reports of corruption involving senior government officials earlier this year as a smear campaign aimed at hurting the party ahead of general elections in 2012.

20100906
reuters

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - An Ethiopian rebel group on Monday warned foreign oil and gas firms to stay out of the country and rejected government claims that the disputed Ogaden region was now safe for exploration companies.

20100906
reuters

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Cloudy, rainy weather continued in Ivory Coast's cocoa-growing regions last week, blotting out sun needed to ripen cocoa pods and threatening bean quality, farmers and analysts said on Monday.

20100906
reuters

PRETORIA (Reuters) - South African public sector workers suspended a disruptive pay strike on Monday as it entered its fourth week, union officials said.

20100906
reuters

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan plans to more than double its gold output in two years partly to help make up for a possible fall in oil revenues if its crude-producing south chooses to secede in a looming referendum, the minerals minister said on Monday.

20100906
reuters

KIGALI (Reuters) - Rwandan President Paul Kagame rejected on Monday accusations he has failed to safeguard human rights and vowed not to let Western critics of his rule influence the path of the central African country.

20100906
africanews

The weekend was a busy one across the African continent as football took centre stage in some of the major capitals. The issue was the 2012 African Cup of Nations qualifiers. Some of the big names in the continent distinguished themselves and took pole positions in their quest to be present in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon, the co-host for the ORANGE CAF Cup 2012.

20100906
africanews

Ivorian striker Didier Drogba on Sunday insisted that he had not given up on his international career with the west African nation. "Each time they call me up, I'll be there," the 32-year-old Chelsea hit man told French Television Channel, TF1.

20100906
africanews

Hundreds fear dead in DRC boat incidence Many people are feared dead in the Democratic Republic of Congo after two boats capsized in separate incidents. One of the boats was carrying up to 300 people when it caught fire on the Kasai River near the border with Angola. Officials are investigating why the boat was sailing at night without lights.

20100906
africanews

A group of senior African parliamentarians has supported former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's call to action at the African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF).

20100906
africanews

West African nation Sierra Leone is in a festive mood after the Leone Stars held the Pharaohs of Egypt in a 1-1 draw at the qualifying series of the African Cup of Nation in Cairo, Egypt.

20100906
africanews

A presidential hopeful of the Democratic Republic of Congo Dr. Francis Mboyo Ndombo Bent is calling on well meaning people of the beleaguered country to support his quest to campaign for the presidency. He told AfricaNews the time has come for change and donations are welcomed to champion his cause.

20100906
africanews

In an ambitious programme, the Catholic University will become the second to offer legal studies in the country after the public University of Malawi (UNIMA). It will also become the first privately owned school of higher learning to train lawyers.

20100906
Business Day

Johannesburg — PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma 's nephew Khulubuse Zuma is reliably understood to have sold on his disputed rights - thought to be worth tens of millions of dollars - to oilfields in the Democratic Republic of Congo, only four months after gaining them in a controversial battle with Tullow Oil, a UK prospector and oil producer.

20100906
reuters

Nairobi — New evidence on how Kenya's post-election violence was planned, funded and executed has been revealed.