20120609 AFP Malawian President Joyce Banda on Friday said her cash-strapped government will sell the presidential jet controversially bought by her predecessor.
20120609 AP MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — A suicide bomber has attacked police headquarters in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri, killing six people, a hospital official said Friday amid warnings that the situation in the city is worsening.
20120609 AP MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Police say a suicide bomber has attacked their headquarters in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri, killing three.
20120609 AFP An Algerian man has died after setting himself ablaze in protest when a policeman took away his driver's licence in the Mascara region, the El Watan Week-end newspaper reported Friday.
20120609 AFP The family of Malawi's ex-president Bingu wa Mutharika on Friday rejected an inquiry into his death, saying facts around his death after a heart attack were already known.
20120609 AFP A bomb killed one person early Friday in the northern city of Maiduguri where Islamist sect Boko Haram has carried out series of deadly attacks, the army and residents said.
20120609 AFP Blood diamonds were once the scourge of African nations used to fund years of brutal civil wars. Now a UN-mandated watchdog aims to stop gem greed from fueling more violence in trouble spots.
20120608 AFP CAIRO (Reuters) - Hundreds of activists gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday to demonstrate against presidential candidate Ahmed Shafik ahead of a run-off vote, saying they did not want to be ruled by another former military man.
20120608 AFP Peace talks between Khartoum and Juba have ground to a halt after failing to agree on where to set up a demilitarised zone along their contested border, officials said Friday.
20120608 AFP A suicide blast at the police headquarters in Nigeria's restive city of Maiduguri Friday killed at least two policemen and wounded six other people, authorities and witnesses said.
20120608 AFP Mali's Tuareg rebels clashed overnight with their former Islamist allies, witnesses said Friday, after the two groups fell out over forming a breakaway state in the northern desert region they control.
20120606 Press TV Egyptians continue their million-man march in Cairo, Alexandria and Suez to voice their anger at the lenient sentence handed to ousted dictator Hosni Mubarak.
20120606 AFP Kenya's main airport in Nairobi will reopen as soon as possible after an aircraft veered off the runway, causing no casualties but forcing flights to divert, officials said Wednesday.
20120606 AFP Ex-Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak suffered an "emotional breakdown" in prison on Tuesday, days after he was sentenced to life over the death of protesters last year, a senior interior ministry official said.
20120606 AFP Crowds of Egyptians packed Cairo's iconic Tahrir Square on Tuesday for a mass demonstration to protest against verdicts handed down in ex-president Hosni Mubarak's murder trial.
20120606 AFP Disagreements between Tuareg and Islamists rebels over the creation of a breakaway state in northern Mali persist as they fail to agree on the implementation of Islamic law, the Tuaregs said Tuesday.
20120606 AFP International Criminal Court prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo on Tuesday clashed with a top Sudanese diplomat at the UN Security Council, threatening an investigation into the envoy's defense of alleged war crimes in Darfur.
20120606 AFP Gunfire and explosions erupted in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Tuesday as soldiers moved into an area where members of Islamist group Boko Haram were believed to be hiding, residents said.
20120606 AFP Gunfire and explosions erupted in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Tuesday as soldiers moved into an area where members of Islamist group Boko Haram were believed to be hiding, residents said.
20120606 AFP Gunfire and explosions erupted in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Tuesday as soldiers moved into an area where members of Islamist group Boko Haram were believed to be hiding, residents said.
