20120728
AFP
The clashes in west Ivory Coast show a vital need to pursue reconciliation efforts and restore the rule of law in the west African country, a United Nations official said Friday.

20120710
Xinhua
Foreign ministers of the Arab Maghreb Union (UMA) member states agreed here Monday to adopt a common approach to deter security threats in the region.

20120710
Xinhua
Sixteen people died and at least 30 others were injured in a traffic accident that occurred Monday evening near Morocco's southeastern city of Essaouira, security sources said.

20120710
Xinhua
Uganda's Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi has said that the current influx of thousands of Congolese refugees fleeing fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is straining social services in western part of the country, local media reported here on Monday.

20120710
Xinhua
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi's decree that ordered the dissolved parliament to resume work did not contradict or violate the earlier decision by the Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC), said spokesman of the presidency Yasser Ali on Monday.

20120706
AFP
A Nigerian court on Thursday accused two men of having links with Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and of receiving funds from the militant group, court papers said.

20120512
ABUJA, May 11 (Xinhua) -- An international agency is urging Nigeria to release an environmental fund in order to help resolve a lead poisoning disaster in the northern state of Zamfara.

20120512
ADDIS ABABA, May 11 (Xinhua) -- Former President of Nigeria and Chairman of the Tana High-Level Forum on Security in Africa (THLF), Olusegun Obasanjo call for the rest of the world to make efforts to know enough about Africa continent, which encompasses of youthful population, expanse of lands and resources.

KAMPALA, March 31 (Xinhua) -- Mali has been suspended from the Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) following a coup that toppled President Amadou Toumani Toure on March 22.

TUNIS, March 31 (Xinhua) -- A Tunisian association dubbed " Freedom and Equity" said it had confirmed the existence of secret prisons in the country under former presidents Habib Bourguiba and Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the state-run TAP press agency reported Saturday.

BISSAU, March 28 (Xinhua) -- Guinea-Bissau's National Electoral Commission (CNE) on Wednesday said that the West African nation's presidential run-off will be held on April 22.

20120124
Reuters
KANO (Reuters) - Gun and bomb attacks by Islamist insurgents in the northern Nigerian city of Kano last week killed at least 178 people, a hospital doctor said on Sunday, underscoring the challenge President Goodluck Jonathan faces to prevent his country sliding further into chaos.

20110928
Reuters
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's parliamentary election will start on November 28, a military source said on Tuesday, launching the process of handing back power to civilian rule nine months after President Hosni Mubarak was ousted in a popular uprising.

20110615
Reuters
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - The decision by President Jacob Zuma to extend the term of South Africa's top judge is being challenged in court, a legal body and an NGO said on Wednesday.

20110530
Reuters
TRIPOLI/VARNA, Bulgaria (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's "reign of terror" is coming to an end, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Monday, ahead of a peace mission by South African President Jacob Zuma.

20110524
Reuters
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Two businessmen have been jailed for defrauding Tanzania's central bank of over $1 million in the first of a series of cases on scams on the bank that cost the country $87 million in 2005, their lawyer said on Tuesday.

20110524
Reuters
BANJUL (Reuters) - A court in Gambia imposed 20 year jail sentences on Monday on the country's former army and navy chiefs after they were convicted of being involved in a foiled 2006 coup attempt.

20110516
this day

The President of the International Monetary Fund, Mr. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has been arrested and charged with sexual assault.