NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya on Sunday defended its decision not to arrest Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who is wanted on genocide charges by the International Criminal Court, when he visited the country this week.
NIAMEY (Reuters) - Niger will avoid the "worst" in its most severe food crisis since 2005 with aid reaching millions left hungry by last year's failed harvest, the government said.
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Two Russian pilots were kidnapped from Nyala town in Darfur on Sunday, state media said, the latest in a wave of kidnappings targeting foreigners in the violent region.
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Biofuel demand is driving a new "land grab" in Africa, with at least 5 million hectares (19,300 sq miles) acquired by foreign firms to grow crops in 11 countries, a study by an environmental group said on Monday.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African President Jacob Zuma has called on government ministers to negotiate immediately with public sector workers to end a pay strike by more than one million workers, local media said on Monday.
The former and exiled president of Madagascar Marc Ravalomanana has been sentenced for life in absentia for the February 2009 murders of at least 30 people by his presidential guards. Ravalomanana has been living in South Africa since March 2009.
The Lomé Magistrate Court has indefinitely banned Tribune d'Afrique, a privately-owned bi-monthly newspaper, for defaming Mey Gnassingbé, a brother of Togolese President, Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé.
United Nations — As details emerged this week of the U.N.'s knowledge of rebel activity in the villages where nearly 200 women were systematically gang raped by armed groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) late last month, human rights groups are demanding an investigation into the U.N.'s failure to prevent the raid from occurring.
Nairobi — Kenya was in the eye of a storm on Saturday over its decision to invite Sudan President Omar al-Bashir to witness the promulgation of the new Constitution on Friday.
Nairobi — President Barack Obama has combined criticism with congratulations in his response to Friday's ceremony marking the adoption of the new Constitution.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An accused pirate from Somalia pleaded guilty on Friday in federal court in Virginia to criminal charges over an April attack on a U.S. Navy ship off the coast of Africa, according to the court and the U.S. Justice Department.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak is set to visit France on Sunday for talks with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, his second visit to the European country in two months, state agency MENA said.
KIGALI (Reuters) - Rwanda rejected as malicious and ridiculous on Friday a leaked draft United Nations report that said its troops may have committed genocide in Congo in the 1990s.
DAKAR (Reuters) - Equatorial Guinea confirmed on Friday it had executed four former military officers convicted of an armed attack on its presidential palace last year, saying they were an "imminent" security risk.
ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) - A Madagascar court sentenced deposed leader Marc Ravalomanana in absentia on Saturday to forced labour for the deaths of dozens of protesters during a march on the presidential palace last year.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African President Jacob Zuma on Saturday accused striking state workers of abandoning the sick at hospitals and said he expected a deal to be reached soon to end the labour action by about 1.3 million.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) said on Friday that the construction of a new copper mine in Zambia, which it is developing with Brazil's Vale, has begun in August, with full output eyed in 2015.
LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambian President Rupiah Banda has accused Western donors of labelling his government as corrupt ahead of next year's election, state radio ZNBC said on Friday.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's largest union threatened on Friday to bring gold and platinum mining and other industries to a halt next week in a strike to support a labour stoppage by 1.3 million state workers.
