20120215 AFP French police on Tuesday searched an upmarket Paris residence of the son of Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema as part of a corruption probe, sources close to the matter told AFP.
20120215 AFP Sudanese warplanes dropped several bombs wounding four soldiers in a contested area claimed by South Sudan, breaking a fresh non-aggression pact between the two sides, Juba's army spokesman said Tuesday.
20120215 AP LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A bomb disposal officer was killed trying to defuse a bomb just minutes after another blast in a flashpoint central Nigeria city previously hit by a feared Islamist sect, police said Tuesday.
20120215 AFP A Tunisian court cleared Libyan former prime minister Baghdadi al-Mahmudi on Tuesday on a charge he had crossed illegally into Tunisia as he fled Libya last year, his lawyer said.a
20120215 AP KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Officials in Uganda say they have seized nearly 360 pounds (162 kilograms) of ivory and other animal parts and products that were being smuggled in and out of the country.
20120215 AFP More funding is needed to avert a humanitarian disaster in Africa's Sahel region where up to 14 million people are suffering from food shortages, the international Red Cross said on Tuesday.
20120214 AFP Gabonese Prime Minister Paul Biyoghe Mba resigned Monday as required by the constitution following elections that handed his party a resounding victory amid an opposition boycott.
20120214 AFP A fierce gunfight between two tribes in Libya's remote southeastern desert has killed at least 17 people in the past two days and wounded another 22, tribal sources told AFP on Monday.
20120214 AFP Pirates fired on a cargo vessel off the coast of Nigeria on Monday killing the captain and chief engineer, a maritime watchdog body said as it warned shipping to stay clear of the area.
20120214 AFP Nigeria's army has killed 12 suspected fighters from the Boko Haram Islamists during a raid in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, the group's base, a military spokesman told AFP on Monday.
20120214 AFP Somali Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali said Monday he hoped an upcoming conference in London on the war-torn country would produce a "Marshall Plan" to end two decades of chaos.
20120214 AFP Senegal's rapper-led youth movement "Fed Up" said Monday it has called for a permanent sit-in at Obelisk Square in Dakar against President Abdoulaye Wade's highly disputed third term candidacy.
20120214 AFP South African President Jacob Zuma, who has repeatedly butted heads with the judiciary, said in an interview published Monday he wants to review the powers of the country's highest court.
20120214 AFP The Malian army said Monday that soldiers and civilians had been summarily executed during a Tuareg offensive in the town of Aguelhok, as France accused the killers of adopting Al-Qaeda-style tactics.
20120214 AFP The Democratic Republic of Congo's supreme court said Monday it had received more than 500 appeals over the results of disputed November legislative polls.
20120214 AFP Sudan's military has stopped the return of South Sudanese by barge on the White Nile river because of suspicions they are also being used by the South to reinforce troops near the tense border, sources said on Monday.
20120214 AFP Zambia's national team arrived home Monday to an ecstatic welcome from thousands of fans who gathered to greet the Copper Bullets after they won the country's first Africa Cup of Nations title.
20120214 AFP The number of Nigerians living on less than $1 per day has increased since 2004 despite economic growth in Africa's top oil producer, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Monday.
