20120226 AP JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Former South African President Nelson Mandela was hospitalized Saturday with a stomach ailment, according to a government statement issued about the 93-year-old beloved anti-apartheid icon.
20120226 AFP United Nations international staff have returned to Sudan's South Kordofan for the first time in months, the UN said on Saturday, as global concern mounts over food shortages in the war-torn state.
20120225 AFP Suspected Boko Haram Islamists in two attacks in northern Nigeria on Friday killed five Muslim worshippers in a mosque and attacked a prison and police station, officials said.
20120225 AP DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal's presidential candidates held their final rallies and protesters marched in the streets Friday, as a respected African statesman shuttled between the opposition and the government to broker a solution to this country's growing political divide.
20120225 AFP UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Friday that Zambia had deepened its democracy with a peaceful handover of power following the election of ex-opposition leader President Michael Sata last year.
20120225 AFP The United Nations plans to host negotiations between Western Sahara rebels and the Moroccan government from March 11 through March 13, a UN spokesman said Friday.
20120225 AFP The results of DR Congo's November legislative polls that gave the ruling party and its allies an absolute majority lack credibility, the Carter Center's election observers said Friday.
20120225 AP DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal's presidential candidates held their final rallies and protesters marched in the streets Friday, as a respected African statesman shuttled between the opposition and the government to broker a solution to this country's growing political divide.
20120225 AFP Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai vowed Friday to resist a push by President Robert Mugabe to hold new elections this year, insisting that their unity government first follow through on promised reforms.
20120225 AFP Clashes between the army and Tuareg rebels in northern Mali have forced 126,400 people to flee their homes since mid-January, the United Nations said in a statement on Friday.
20120225 AFP Fresh fighting in Sudan's Darfur region has killed 12 government soldiers, according to a rebel statement received on Friday, but an official said 10 civilians were the victims.
20120225 AFP South African police have found a badly beaten corpse near the strike-hit Impala Rustenburg platinum mine, parent company Implats said Friday, the third death since violence broke out there last week.
20120225 AFP The UN-backed tribunal for Rwanda has tranferred a second genocide case to the central African country's national courts, an official said Friday.
20120225 AFP Eight human rights organisations in Togo Friday called on the government to step down for "doctoring" a report into the torture of dozens of suspects held over a coup plot.
20120225 AFP Zimbabwe's national airline has suspended all its flights indefinitely, after the latest revival effort collapsed this week, the firm's chief executive said on Friday.
20120225 AFP Sudan's foreign minister is to make a two-day visit to Beijing, China said Friday, as it seeks to resolve a crisis in relations between Khartoum and South Sudan, a major oil supplier.
20120225 AFP Impala Platinum said Friday that Zimbabwe has rejected parts of its sell-off plan for its Mimosa Holdings subsidiary, which must cede a majority stake under a local shareholding law.
20120221 AP TABDA, Somalia (AP) — An 80-year-old Somali woman fondly recalled her younger days. There was peace in Somalia then, and people in the town of Tabda in the arid scrublands of the country's south did not rely on the mercy of others for food.
20120221 AFP Victims of environmental disasters or other abuses inflicted by corporations in Nigeria are being denied justice as they are too poor or do not know how to seek legal recourse, jurists said Wednesday.
20120221 AFP Senegalese music icon and opposition activist Youssou Ndour was injured in the leg Tuesday after being hit by a projectile at the scene of a banned rally in Dakar, his entourage told AFP.
