20120227 AFP Egypt's ruling military called on the recently elected parliament and senate to convene on March 3 to form a panel to draft a new constitution, state television reported on Sunday.
20120227 AP JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Human rights groups are urging UNESCO to abandon a prize named after Africa's longest-ruling dictator, one they say could be tainted by some of the millions he allegedly has looted from oil-rich but poverty-stricken Equatorial Guinea.
20120227 AFP Egypt started on Sunday the trial of dozens of democracy activists including Americans on charges of receiving illegal foreign funding, despite Washington's insistence that the charges be dropped.
20120227 AP JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Former President Nelson Mandela was released from the hospital Sunday after an overnight stay for minor diagnostic surgery to determine the cause of an abdominal complaint, a spokesman for the country's current leader said.
20120227 AFP Senegal voted on Sunday in its most contentious election yet as 85-year-old President Abdoulaye Wade seeks a disputed third term, testing its credentials as one of Africa's most stable countries.
20120227 AP DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — After weeks of riots, voters began casting their ballots Sunday in an election that threatens Senegal's reputation as one of oldest and most robust democracies in Africa.
20120226 AP GOMBE, Nigeria (AP) — An attack on a police station in northeastern Nigeria killed at least 12 people and wounded five others, authorities said Saturday, amid a growing wave of attacks by a radical Islamist sect.
20120226 AFP Senegal votes in its most tumultuous polls yet on Sunday with 85-year-old President Abdoulaye Wade's bid for a third term having sparked deadly protests in one of Africa's most stable countries.
20120226 AFP US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pledged US backing for democratic and economic development in north Africa Saturday as she toured the region that gave birth to the Arab spring.
20120226 AFP The African Union's top envoy on Saturday proposed Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade retire in two years if he is re-elected, in an attempt to ease tensions on the eve of the nation's most contentious polls yet.
20120226 AFP Nelson Mandela underwent hospital tests Saturday but officials and a grand-daughter reassured an anxious public that the 93-year-old anti-apartheid icon was not in danger and could leave within two days.
20120226 AP DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — When he sat down with his biographer to record the story of his life, President Abdoulaye Wade made sure the book would start with a description of the Waalo kingdom, from whose kings the Wade family is descended.
20120226 AFP Two police officers from the African Union-United Nations peacekeeping mission to Sudan's Darfur region (UNAMID) have been shot and wounded by unidentified gunmen, the mission said on Saturday.
20120226 AFP Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe marked his 88th birthday with a trademark attack on gays and foreigners at a mass rally of his supporters on Saturday to celebrate the occasion.
20120226 AFP Gunmen suspected of being Boko Haram Islamists killed a dozen people when they razed a police station after failing to storm a jail in northeastern Nigeria's Gombe city, police said Saturday.
20120226 AP HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe wound up a week of celebrations marking his 88th birthday with a lavish gathering Saturday, where he urged the nation's youth to shun Western values, homosexuality and greed.
20120226 AFP More than 3,000 protesters rallied in Tunisia's capital on Saturday to call for the country's moderate Islamist government to resign after accusations that ruling party activists had defaced union offices.
20120226 AFP France's Foreign Minister Alain Juppe on Saturday discussed the many crises raging in Africa during talks with the leader of Benin, who is also the current president of the African Union.
20120226 AFP Botswana's ruling party celebrated its 50th anniversary Saturday with praise for turning the world's biggest diamond producer into a model of African democracy and good resource management.
