20120526
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HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — The United Nations human rights chief said Friday that Western sanctions against Zimbabwe's president and his loyalists should be suspended, at least until elections, saying the measures have hurt the country's poorest and most vulnerable people.

20120526
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Malian paramilitary police on Friday questioned three leaders of a pro-coup coalition which called a protest during which the country's transition president Dioncounda Traore was physically assaulted.

20120526
AFP
A lawyer for Ivory Coast's former president Laurent Gbagbo, suspected of crimes against humanity, has challenged the competence of the International Criminal Court, court documents showed Friday.

20120526
AFP
Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema has named two sons and a brother in the country's new government, after appointing Vincente Ehate Tomi as prime minister, national television reported.

20120526
AP
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — An African Union official says Sudan and South Sudan have agreed to resume talks over issues that brought the two nations to the brink of war: sharing oil wealth and establishing their border.

20120525
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UN rights chief Navi Pillay on Friday urged the West to suspend sanctions against Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe and his close aides to give the country a chance to implement much needed reforms.

20120525
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JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Leaders of a minority community said South Sudan troops shot and killed a teenager on Friday while he was fishing, linking the death to the military's disarmament campaign in a conflict-torn state.

20120525
AFP
Egypt looks set for a run-off presidential vote between the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammed Mursi and Mubarak-era minister Ahmed Shafiq, pitting Islamists who helped oust the dictator against his last premier.

20120523
AFP
Mali's one-year transition back to democratic rule got off to a shaky start on Tuesday amid fears the process may be derailed after president Dioncounda Traore was attacked by angry protesters.

20120523
AFP
Uganda's top prosecutor said Tuesday that any case against a captured Lord's Resistance Army commander would proceed on merit, amid concern he could be offered amnesty for information on LRA leader Joseph Kony.

20120523
AFP
A feud between Rwandan Hutu rebels and the Mai Mai militia in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo last week left more than 100 people dead, including civilians, a local activist said Tuesday.

20120523
AFP
One person was killed when a car exploded on Sudan's Red Sea coast on Tuesday, state media reported, about a year after Sudan blamed Israel for an air strike in the same region.

20120523
AFP
A buzz of excitement swept through the Egyptian capital Tuesday, a day before its first presidential election since an uprising overthrew Hosni Mubarak and ushered in a tumultuous military-led transition.

20120523
AFP
UN human rights chief Navi Pillay on Tuesday said Zimbabwe must take steps to prevent a recurrence of the deadly violence that engulfed the last presidential election four years ago.

20120523
AFP
Dozens of miners trapped underground after a fire at a platinum mine in Southern Zimbabwe have all been accounted for with no-one injured, the mine's owners said Tuesday.

20120523
AFP
A South African court convicted a black farmworker Tuesday of murdering white supremacist leader Eugene Terre'Blanche, but found the motive was financial rather than racial.

20120523
AFP
Two men on Tuesday vandalised a portrait of President Jacob Zuma posing as Vladimir Lenin with his genitals exposed in a Johannesburg gallery, prompting the curator to take down the painting.

20120523
AFP
Nigeria's justice minister vowed Tuesday to probe those implicated in a parliamentary report detailing billions of dollars lost through a graft-ridden fuel subsidy programme, as the government faced pressure to act.

20120523
AP
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — West Africa's regional bloc said Tuesday it will impose sanctions on those it finds responsible for allowing an attack on Mali's president at his office.