20120214 AP LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — With an escort of jet fighters screaming above and tens of thousands of screaming fans on the ground, Zambia's victorious soccer team flew home Monday to a hero's welcome.
20120214 AFP The UN refugee agency said on Friday it needs $145 million (110 million euros) in extra funds to help thousands fleeing fighting in Sudan's Blue Nile and South Kordofan states.
20120214 AP MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Members of a radical Islamist sect ambushed an army patrol in Nigeria's restive northeast and killed 12 soldiers, a spokesman for the group said Monday.
20120213 AFP PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — The embattled youth leader of South Africa's governing party who claims to speak for a frustrated generation used what he said could be his farewell address Friday to press calls for nationalizing South Africa's economy, a populist stance that has worried potential foreign investors.
20120213 AFP Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki said Sunday he hoped the bloodshed in Syria could be stopped under a similar scenario to the one which saw Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh relinquish power.
20120213 AFP A close aide to DR Congo President Joseph Kabila was killed and the country's finance minister seriously injured in a plane crash on Sunday in the east of the country, the president's office said.
20120213 AFP Sudan and breakaway South Sudan on Sunday agreed to cooperate in the transfer of more than 300,000 people to the South, the official SUNA news agency said.
20120213 AFP African Union forces in Somalia are planning to attack a stronghold town of Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab rebels to the west of the war-torn country's capital, a commander said Sunday.
20120213 AFP Impala Platinum, the world's number two producer, has agreed to take back 17,200 workers in South Africa who were fired for going on strike, their union said on Sunday.
20120213 AFP International diamond watchdog the Kimberley Process (KP) has certified Zimbabwe's Diamond Mining Company to sell gems from the violence-tainted Marange fields, state media reported on Sunday.
20120213 AP KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A senior presidential adviser was among two killed after a private jet crashed while landing in Congo's eastern city of Bukavu, a transport minister said Sunday.
20120213 AFP Madagascar must meet a regional deadline to finalise amnesty laws by the end of the month allowing the return of exiled former leader Marc Ravalomanana, a top South African diplomat said on Sunday.
20120213 AP KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A transport minister says a private jet crashed while landing in Congo's city of Bukavu, killing an unknown number and injuring a local governor.
20120213 AFP Southern African countries have vowed to lobby hard for South Africa's Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma who on Sunday was again backed as the region's candidate for African Union chief after a recent polls deadlock.
20120213 AFP Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade on Saturday wooed voters in the troubled Casamance with a new peace plan as mobilisation against his disputed third term appeared to run out of steam.
20120213 AFP A planned day on Saturday of civil disobedience and strikes against Egypt's military rulers to mark a year since Hosni Mubarak's overthrow saw only a small turnout, but activists still pledged further protests.
20120212 AFP Southern African foreign ministers met Saturday to discuss the recent deadlocked polls for a new African Union head and to chart the regional bloc's strategy for the next vote.
20120212 AFP The lead mediator in a furious oil row between Sudan and South Sudan urged the two states Saturday to ease their unilateral actions ahead of a new round of talks to resolve the crisis.
