20120221 AFP Africa's top envoy arrived in Senegal amid fresh clashes on Tuesday, with the opposition hoping he can talk 85-year-old President Abdoulaye Wade out of seeking a controversial third term in weekend polls.
20120221 AFP A man claiming to be a spokesman for Nigeria's extremist sect Boko Haram said Tuesday that the group was behind an attack that claimed about 30 lives in a crowded market.
20120221 AP DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has arrived in Senegal to mediate the country's political standoff, while police once again fired tear gas to disperse protesters in the capital.
20120221 AP DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo is traveling to Senegal Tuesday to observe this weekend's contentious presidential election and to attempt to mediate a solution to the country's political impasse.
20120221 AFP Togo's president on Tuesday led African calls at the UN Security Council for greater action to counter crime syndicates and terrorism in West Africa which he said threatens governments.
20120221 AFP Fierce clashes between two tribes in Libya's remote southeastern desert have killed more than 100 people over the past 10 days, tribal sources said on Tuesday.
20120221 AFP Oil companies in Nigeria are battling against rising theft costing an estimated 150,000 barrels of crude a day, a top oil official said Tuesday.
20120221 AFP Ethiopian troops in battle tanks thrust into rebel-held Somalia regions Tuesday, sparking heavy fighting as they advanced towards the major Shebab stronghold of Baidoa, witnesses said.
20120221 AFP The party belonging to the powerful Muslim Brotherhood on Tuesday slammed the "failure" of the military-appointed government, and renewed its call for a national consensus cabinet.
20120221 AFP Sudanese consumers and market traders struggling to cope with rising prices on Tuesday warned of social unrest as living standards deteriorate since the country's partition.
20120221 AFP Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, Africa's oldest leader, declared himself as "fit as a fiddle" and pushed for new elections later this year as he celebrated his 88th birthday on Tuesday.
20120221 AFP Jonas Savimbi, the vicious, charismatic rebel who fought Angola's socialist government in a 27-year civil war, died 10 years ago Wednesday, leaving behind a haunting legacy of violence.
20120221 AFP Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe threatened Monday to reject South African counterpart Jacob Zuma as facilitator for the tense power-sharing government formed to stop Zimbabwe's political melt-down.
20120221 AP HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe said Monday that he reserves the right to disregard efforts by South African President Jacob Zuma to mediate disputes in the nation's troubled coalition government.
20120221 AFP Guinea will hold elections in May, more than five months after the originally slated date, with or without the consent of the opposition, the west African country's interior minister told AFP Monday.
20120221 AP DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal's government said Monday that one of the candidates vying to unseat the nation's elderly leader in this week's election has recruited a militia in a bid to install chaos and make the country ungovernable.
20120221 AFP Residents of the battle-scarred town of Misrata voted on Monday to elect their local council, in Libya's first poll in more than 40 years and held four months after the killing of Moamer Kadhafi.
20120221 AFP Senegal police turned away small groups of opposition protesters Monday after days of riots against President Abdoulaye Wade's bid for a third term.
20120221 AFP More than 35,000 refugees from Mali have crossed into neighbouring Burkina Faso and Niger to flee fighting between Tuareg rebels and government forces, officials said Monday.
20120221 AFP Rebels in Sudan's Darfur region said on Monday they had freed all 49 international peacekeepers captured one day earlier but that they continued to hold three Sudanese.
