20120220 AFP Police arrested at least 350 people after deadly violence during an illegal strike at the world's largest platinum mine run by South Africa's Impala Platinum, a senior officer said Sunday.
20120220 AFP A roadside bomb blast killed four people and injured 10 other passengers on a bus east of the Algerian capital on Sunday, local news websites reported.
20120218 AFP African leaders on Saturday met for talks on security issues as fresh violence in Mali has sparked what rights groups say is the Sahel region's worst human rights crisis in 20 years.
20120218 AFP Senegal riot police clashed with rock-throwing protesters Saturday, firing teargas and water cannon for the fourth day running as fresh violence hit the capital a week before highly divisive polls.
20120218 AFP Egypt was set to further widen a row with the United States by announcing on Saturday that it would go ahead with a trial of foreign democracy activists, including 19 Americans, on February 26.
20120218 AP DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Riot police fired tear gas on anti-government protesters in the capital as Senegal's security forces wrapped up early voting in a contentious presidential race.
20120218 AFP Somalia's Al-Qaeda-allied Shebab rebels warned Saturday they were stepping up a bombing campaign in the war-torn capital Mogadishu, a day after a car bomb at a police station wounded two.
20120218 AFP Patrick Anywar, 14, lies curled up naked in the dust and midday heat of a Ugandan village, struggling to look up at his younger brother and sister playing in front of the family home.
20120218 AFP Poachers have slaughtered some 200 elephants in a national park in northern Cameroon, about a third of the population, and the massacre is still going on, according to a wildlife protection group.
20120218 AFP Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara has assumed a new regional leadership role less than a year after he assumed power following the bloody post-election conflict in his own country.
20120218 AP NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — An al-Qaida-linked Somali militant group is suspected of killing at least 30 Kenyan civilians since Kenyan troops entered Somalia, a police spokesman said Saturday.
20120218 AFP Violence broke out late Friday in Tivaouane, seat of Senegal's largest Islamic brotherhood the Tidiane, where the mayor's office was burned down after police hurled teargas into a Dakar mosque, the APS news agency reported.
20120218 AFP Four Chinese men face deportation from Zimbabwe after they were arrested for killing more than 40 tortoises for meat, a state daily reported Saturday, citing a statement by an animal rights group.
20120218 AFP The European Union delegation in Burundi has expressed "concern" over multiple violations of human rights and justice in the small central African country.
20120218 AP BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — The lawyer for an outspoken opponent of Malawi's president says his client has been moved from jail to a hospital, where he is being treated under police guard for a heart ailment.
20120218 AP DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegalese riot police fired tear gas Friday at protesters on a main commercial boulevard in the capital, after the country's opposition went ahead with a protest in defiance of a government ban.
20120218 AFP The Islamist Shebab rebel movement claimed responsibility for a car bomb which exploded at a major police building in Somalia's war-torn capital Mogadishu Friday, wounding a police officer.
20120218 AFP Senegalese police engaged in running battles with protesters firing tear gas and rubber bullets in central Dakar Friday to head off a planned protest against President Abdoulaye Wade's third-term bid.
