20110221
RFI

Egypt's prosecutor general requested a freeze on the foreign assets of recenty-resigned president Hosni Mubarak and his family on Monday.

20110208
xinhua

LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (Reuters) - The defence lawyer for former Liberian president Charles Taylor defied the Sierra Leone war crimes court on Tuesday, walking out in protest ahead of closing arguments in the case and calling it a farce.

20110205
reuters

MUNICH (Reuters) - The Middle East faces a "perfect storm" of unrest and regional leaders must quickly enact real democratic reforms or risk even greater instability, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Saturday.

20110131
reuters

ADDIS ABABA, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- The African Union (AU) envisions to install a naval component into the African Force in order to fight the rampant pirates along the coastline of the continent, M. Ramtane Lamamra, AU Commissioner for Peace and Security, announced here on Sunday.

20110130
xinhua

ADDIS ABABA, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said reopening Cote d'Ivoire's election results would be a "grave injustice," according to a press release received here on Sunday ahead of the AU summit.

20110130
xinhua

ADDIS ABABA, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- African countries are having intense discussions on the situation in Cote d'Ivoire, hoping to reach consensus on how to deal with the country's political impasse before the upcoming African Union (AU) summit scheduled on Sunday.

20110130
xinhua

ADDIS ABABA, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- The 16th summit of the African Union (AU), scheduled for Jan. 30-31 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, will be a summit of divergences, said AU Commission Chairperson Jean Ping on Saturday.

20110129
reuters

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Africa and the international community must stand firm against efforts by Ivory Coast's incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo to cling onto power, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said.

20110129
reuters

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - African countries support the International Criminal Court (ICC) but its chief prosecutor is guilty of double standards, the chairman of the African Union Commission said on Saturday.

20110129
xinhua

ADDIS ABABA, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) -- The African Union (AU) on Friday said a panel to deal with the crisis in Cote d'Ivoire will be set up in a maximum of 48 hours.

20110125
reuters

ABUJA/KAMPALA (Reuters) - Cracks emerged on Tuesday in African efforts to end a power struggle gripping Ivory Coast, as Uganda became the latest country to question United Nations recognition of Alassane Ouattara as its president.

20110121
BuaNews

Pretoria — President Jacob Zuma has pinned his hopes on the upcoming African Union meeting in Ethiopia next week to defuse the unfolding political crisis in Cote d'Ivoire.

20110117
africanews

The Minister for Public Health and Sanitation in Kenya, Mrs. Beth Mugo, and the Minister for Science and Technology in South Africa, Mrs. Naledi Pandor, were jointly elected co-chairs of the Board of the African Network for Drugs and Diagnostics Innovation (ANDI), at the inaugural meeting, hosted by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA).

20110117
africanews

Who has ever seen a chocolate bar in the West with the words manufactured or processed in Ghana yet Ghana produces so much chocolate, it is time Africa looked at this situation with mature eyes and with a heart towards the African people. A significant agricultural agreement between Africa and the West has not been reached though being discussed for around 60 years now.

20110117
reuters

GENEVA (Reuters) - Developing countries and economies in transition together attracted more foreign investment than developed countries in 2010 for the first time, a United Nations study showed on Monday.

20110115
African Union

The Peace and Security Council of the African Union (AU), at its 257 th meeting held on 15 January 2011, considered the situation in Tunisia, in the light of the departure of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. In this respect, Council followed a briefing by the Permanent Representative of Tunisia to the African Union.

20110110
reuters

GENEVA (Reuters) - Increased trade is one of the best ways to fight poverty, so rich countries should do more to open their markets to goods from developing countries, a report issued on Monday said.

20110110
reuters

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The United Nations may have sounded the alarm about soaring global food prices, but in Africa a string of bumper harvests and a changing diet means the political fallout may be more muted than to past price bumps.

20110110
africanews

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia has concluded a three-day visit to Libya during which she had talks with Libyan leader Mouammar Kadhafi on the Community of Sahelian-Saharan States (CEN-SAD) and African issues, Pana said.

20110107
reuters

SEOUL (Reuters) - The Group of 20 leading economies will discuss ways to tackle soaring food prices that are stoking fears of a repeat of the 2008 food crisis, as some Asian countries sought to reassure nervous consumers on Friday.