20120228 AFP As Libyans set about rebuilding their nation one year after the outbreak of a revolt that toppled Moamer Kadhafi, thousands of immigrants are trapped in makeshift detention centres, denied the chance to work, but with no way home.
20120228 AFP Nelson Mandela was recovering at home in Johannesburg on Monday after being discharged from hospital with a clean bill of health, easing fears over the revered icon of the anti-apartheid struggle.
20120228 AP DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade says he now expects to face a runoff in the West African nation's presidential election.
20120228 AFP Gunmen killed three policemen in an attack on a police station in northeast Nigeria, the latest in a wave of near daily violence blamed on Islamist group Boko Haram, police said Monday.
20120228 AFP South African Nobel Peace laureate Desmond Tutu on Tuesday joined a call by rights groups to abolish a UNESCO prize named after Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema.
20120228 AFP The body of Nigeria's secessionist leader Odumegwu Ojukwu, who proclaimed the Republic of Biafra in 1967, was flown back to full military honours Monday, three months after his death in London.
20120228 AFP Somali Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali said Monday he hoped his country would be free of Al-Qaeda allied Shebab fighters in the next few months, following advances by pro-government and foreign troops.
20120228 AP DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — As votes were being tallied on Monday from Senegal's presidential election, leading opposition candidate Macky Sall declared that no candidate had gotten the necessary 50 percent, making a runoff "inevitable."
20120228 AFP The sacked chief editor of the Swazi Observer newspaper said Monday that he has fled to South Africa in fear of his life after receiving a tip-off that police wanted to arrest him on terror charges.
20120228 AFP Rebels fighting along Sudan's disputed border with the breakaway south on Monday said they had seized the key area of Taruje, near the southern border, clearing a path for refugees fleeing the fighting.
20120228 AFP UN chief Ban Ki-moon said Monday he was concerned by the treatment of illegal migrants on the border of Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo, where uniformed men have raped displaced women.
20120227 AFP Senegal tallied results in a contentious election in which incumbent Abdoulaye Wade, who is seeking to extend his rule with a disputed third term, was greeted by jeers as he cast his ballot Sunday.
20120227 AP DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Voters booed Senegal's president as he went to cast his ballot in elections Sunday, the latest sign of how his decision to seek a third term in office has caused his popularity to plummet and divided a country long considered a model of tolerance.
20120227 AFP Nelson Mandela's health scares send Twitter into overdrive, but South African officials made savvier use of social media to keep the world informed on the global icon's latest medical woe.
20120227 AFP Nigeria's Islamist sect Boko Haram said it was behind a suicide bomb attack Sunday that killed at least three outside a church in the central city of Jos, and warned of more such assaults.
20120227 AFP Nelson Mandela was given a clean bill of health and left hospital Sunday after a minor diagnostic procedure, soothing fears over the beloved South African nonagenarian's health.
20120227 AFP Khartoum threatened retaliation on Sunday after accusing breakaway South Sudan of backing a rebel attack inside its territory, adding to tensions which have sparked international concern.
20120227 AP DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Polling stations have started closing and election monitors in Senegal are now counting ballots from a vote that has tested the nation's image as one of the continent's oldest and most robust democracies.
20120227 AP JOS, Nigeria (AP) — A suicide car bomber detonated his explosives outside a major church Sunday, killing three people and wounding 38 in a restive central Nigerian city that has seen hundreds die in religious and ethnic violence.
