20120429 AFP The troops who seized power this month in the tiny West African nation of Guinea-Bissau said Friday they agreed to a 12-month transition period mooted by the west African regional bloc ECOWAS.
20120429 AFP Gunmen suspected of belonging to the Boko Haram Islamist sect fatally shot a police inspector outside his home in northern Nigerian Yobe state Friday, a police official said.
20120429 AFP The Ivory Coast government on Friday reached out to supporters of former president Laurent Gbagbo, whose refusal to step down after 2010 elections caused a bloodbath.
20120429 AFP A special review of the Tunisian media was boycotted Friday by journalists and others in an illustration of the ongoing mistrust between the nation's post-revolutionary leaders and the press.
20120429 AFP The UN food agency on Friday appealed to oil- and mineral-rich nations to set up a fund to combat the food crisis gripping the Sahel desert region and other parts of Africa.
20120429 AFP Scores of Tunisian magistrates protested on Friday before the constituent assembly to denounce a backlog of reforms that promised judges their independence.
20120425 AFP Malawi's new President Joyce Banda vowed Wednesday to allow foreign diplomats to work freely, seeking to improve donor ties strained under the late leader Bingu wa Mutharika.
20120425 AFP South Africa's ruling ANC wants to close the book on renegade youth leader Julius Malema, but analysts warned Wednesday his expulsion could still rock President Jacob Zuma's re-election drive.
20120425 AFP Mali's interim prime minister Cheick Modibo Diarra on Wednesday formed a government of 24 members, including three representatives of the military in key posts.
20120425 AFP South Sudan's president will cut short his visit to China amid violence between the world's newest nation and Sudan, officials said on Wednesday, as Beijing announced plans to send a peace envoy.
20120424 AFP President Alassane Ouattara vowed Monday that all those behind killings during Ivory Coast's post-poll crisis would be brought to justice and urged "true reconciliation."
20120424 AFP A stench of death filled the air and oil leaked onto the ground Monday in Sudan's main petroleum centre of Heglig, where Sudan's army says more than 1,000 Southern soldiers died in battle.
20120424 AFP Malawi's late president Bingu wa Mutharika was buried Monday in an imposing private mausoleum dubbed the 'Taj Mahal', as both critics and leaders of his party stressed reconciliation.
20120424 AFP Waving guns in the air, South Sudanese soldiers in the border state of Unity sing revolutionary songs about decades of war with Sudan, warning they are ready for a new one if need be.
20120424 AFP Eritrean President Issaias Afeworki is at the "peak of his health" the secretive Red Sea state said Monday, in a statement aimed to quash rumours the authoritarian leader is sick.
20120424 AFP Guinea-Bissau was due a bumper cashew harvest this year but prices have halved as money dries up after a coup d'etat, raising anxiety among those who survive off the country's main export.
20120424 AFP The US embassy in Kenya warned Monday of a possible attack which is "in the last stages of planning" on Nairobi hotels and key government buildings and urged American citizens to be cautious.
20120424 AP KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir has arrived in the oil-rich disputed border town that has sparked a surge in violence with South Sudan and drawn the two closer to full-scale war.
20120424 AFP Sudan's main oil processing facility in the key oil region of Heglig is heavily damaged, after South Sudanese troops occupied the area, an AFP correspondent reported on Monday.
20120424 AFP Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir said Monday there will be no more talks with South Sudan, as fresh Sudanese air raids dashed South Sudanese hopes for an end to weeks of fighting.
