The 25th Africa- France summit held in Nice was an opportunity for South Africa to strengthen relations based on shared interest and mutual trust, says the South African Presidency.
Kenya's second largest mobile operator Zain plans to roll out a third-generation (3G) service in July this year after an expected cut in license fees by the regulator, its managing director said this week.
In an exclusive interview with RFI, Côte d'Ivoire President Laurent Gbagbo has pledged that long-delayed elections will take place before the end of the year.
Ghana's president John Evans Atta Mills has ordered cabinet ministers and other government appointees of the West African country not to travel to South Africa to watch the 2010 World Cup. He said apart from those directly in charge of sports, all the others must stay in Ghana during the tournament.
Cancer will kill more than 13.2 million people a year by 2030, almost double the number who died from the disease in 2008, the United Nations' cancer research agency said on Tuesday.
Many Egyptians were blocked by security forces and ruling party backers from voting in an election on Tuesday, particularly where the opposition Muslim Brotherhood was running, rights groups and the opposition said.
Egypt will open its border with the Gaza Strip to let Palestinians cross, officials said on Tuesday, following a storm of international criticism of Israel's bloody enforcement at sea of its blockade on the enclave.
Up to 4,000 nurses and administrative workers at South African private healthcare firm Netcare could go on strike from Wednesday, marking the latest industrial action in Africa's biggest economy.
Europe should engage Sudan as a priority ahead of a southern referendum on independence, despite an International Criminal Court arrest warrant for President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, a Norwegian minister said on Tuesday.
Mozambique police on Tuesday dismissed a South African newspaper report saying the country was home to al Qaeda training camps that could launch an attack on the World Cup.
South Africa's COSATU trade union federation threatened on Tuesday to pull out of an alliance with the ANC if the ruling party persists with disciplinary charges against union leader Zwelinzima Vavi.
Three top officers who quit south Sudan's army over alleged fraud in national elections are coordinating attacks in the oil-producing region, a renegade general said on Monday, but the army played down the threat.
Coal of Africa's proposed Vele coal mine could increase pollution and hurt South Africa's Mapungupwe World Heritage site, the environmental minister said on Tuesday.
France is to set up a $120 million fund to help Africa's agriculture industry and the investment could end up totalling $300 million, a communique from the 25th Africa-France summit said on Tuesday.
South Africa's ruling ANC will take disciplinary action against one of its most prominent members, trade union boss Zwelinzima Vavi, who accused President Zuma of not taking a tough enough stance on corruption.
