The African Union, AU, has given a resounding support to the candidacy of Nigerian Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for president of the World Bank. Nominations for the post expired on Friday, March 23.
MOSCOW, March 29 (Xinhua) -- The Russian air force completed the withdrawal of its peacekeepers from South Sudan on Thursday, according to the Defense Ministry.
KHARTOUM, March 29 (Xinhua) -- Sudan and South Sudan will resume their negotiations on outstanding issues in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on Thursday under the mediation of the African Union, Sudanese media reported.
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.
HIGLIEG, Sudan, March 28 (Xinhua) -- Two days after limited clashes between Sudan and South Sudan armies, calmness returned to Higlieg area in Sudan's South Kordofan State on the border between the two countries.
KHARTOUM, March 28 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations said Wednesday thousands of South Sudanese returning to their homeland from Sudan were stranded at Higlig area which is witnessing armed clashes between Sudan and South Sudan armies.
Officials from Sudan and South Sudan are set to meet in the Ethiopian capital on Thursday in a bid by the African Union (AU) to end ongoing clashes and prevent an all-out war between the two neighbours.
20120326 AFP A former police officer and two of his friends were killed Sunday in a shootout in Nigeria that also killed three suspected members of the Boko Haram Islamist group.
20120326 AFP Captain Amadou Haya Sanogo, once a US-trained English instructor to his fellow Malian officers, has emerged as the leader of a military junta which ousted a democratic regime.
20120326 AP DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Supporters of opposition candidate Macky Sall began celebrating in the streets of Senegal's capital late Sunday as partial results coming in showed him trouncing the country's 85-year-old incumbent president at many polling stations.
20120326 AFP US congressional minority leader Nancy Pelosi met Egypt's military ruler in Cairo on Thursday, after Egypt defused a crisis with Washington by allowing US democracy activists on trial to leave the country.
20120326 AFP Egypt's ruling generals lashed out Sunday at the Muslim Brotherhood over its questioning of the military's continued support of the cabinet, while urging the Islamists "to look to the future with the spirit of cooperation."
20120326 AP BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali's foreign minister and 13 others being detained by the junta that took over Mali started a hunger strike Sunday, the minister's brother said.
20120326 AFP Firebrand South African youth leader Julius Malema said Sunday he would legally challenge his expulsion from the ANC if his appeal with ruling party fails.
20120326 AFP The Kenyan and Zimbabwean foreign ministers have been evacuated from Mali where they were stranded by the west African country's military coup, Kenya's foreign ministry said on Sunday.
20120326 AFP Mali was gripped by uncertainty on Sunday after a coup by mutinous soldiers who ousted the president, leaving a power vacuum exploited by separatist Tuareg rebels waging an offensive in the north.
