20120324 AFP Nigeria's Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala who is angling for the World Bank's top job, is a respected economist who has spent most of the last 30 years at the bank.
20120323 AP For Princess Moyo, who lives in a shack in a Johannesburg settlement infamous for poverty and crime, the bank account she opened several months ago means security.
20120323 AFP Senegal's veteran leader Abdoulaye Wade and his challenger Macky Sall made their final appeals to voters on Friday ahead of weekend presidential polls with the incumbent seeking to hold office past the age of 90.
20120323 Press TV The African Union on Friday suspended Mali following a military coup and said it would send a joint team with the West African bloc ECOWAS to urge a return to constitutional order.
20120323 Press TV The United Nations Security Council has condemned the coup in Mali, demanding that coup leaders return their forces to the barracks and immediately restore constitutional rule.
20120323 Press TV At least four police officers have been killed and six others injured after Somali policemen turned on each other and clashed in the war-ravaged Somali capital of Mogadishu, Press TV reports.
20120322 AP Ugandan police on Thursday restricted the movements of opposition leader Kizza Besigye after a police officer died in a violent clash between his supporters and the police.
20120322 AFP The European Union will likely approve plans Friday to strike Somali pirate equipment on beaches, widening the scope of its naval operations four years into a mission to protect shipping.
20120322 AFP The International Monetary Fund said Thursday an IMF team had fruitful talks with authorities in Egypt this week that could lead to an IMF loan.
20120322 AFP A UN envoy on Thursday called on the impoverished Sierra Leone government to explain why it has imported several million dollars worth of assault weapons for a police paramilitary wing.
20120322 AFP South Sudan on Thursday invited its "brother", Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, to an April summit to resolve outstanding issues that have pushed the two countries to the brink of war.
20120322 Press TV Kenyan fighter jets have killed at least 37 al-Shabab fighters in the southern Somali town of Diff along the Somalia-Kenya border, Press TV reports.
20120322 Press TV Guinea Bissau’s presidential election has gone into a runoff after the country’s former Prime Minister Carlos Gomes failed to secure an outright majority in the first round.
20120322 Press TV Malian soldiers have mutinied, attacked the presidential palace in capital Bamako, and taken full control of the state broadcaster, spreading fears of a coup d’etat
20120322 Press TV Thousands of protesters have held a demonstration in the Moroccan capital of Rabat to demand an end to official corruption and poverty.
20120322 Press TV Renegade Malian soldiers say they have toppled the government of President Amadou Toumani Toure and seized power in the West African state.
20120321 Press TV A Cairo court has given suspended one-year sentences to 11 policemen accused of killing protesters during last year’s uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak.
20120321 AFP A UN-linked body launched a campaign in Nigeria on Tuesday aimed at preventing deaths due to toxic smoke from rudimentary cookstoves, one of the developing world's worst public health threats.
20120321 AFP Democratic Republic of Congo security forces killed at least 33 people among other "serious human rights violations" during November 2011 elections, a United Nations report said Tuesday.
20120321 AFP Egypt's Coptic Pope Shenuda was laid to rest on Tuesday in a monastery in the Egyptian desert, amid hysterical scenes as thousands of mourners mobbed to get close to his coffin.
