20120212 AFP Saadi Kadhafi, one of the sons of Libya's slain dictator Moamer Kadhafi, has said a nationwide rebellion is brewing against the country's new rulers as he vowed to return to his homeland.
20120212 AFP South Africa launched a new line of bank notes on Saturday bearing the image of its first democratically elected president Nelson Mandela on the 22nd anniversary of his release from prison.
20120212 AFP Niger will not extradite Saadi Kadhafi even though the son of the slain Libyan leader violated his asylum conditions with "subversive" comments in a television interview, officials said on Saturday.
20120212 AP NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) — Days ago, Bahi Ag Mohamed was living comfortably as a trader in Mali's capital. Now he is hungry and living in a small room with eight others in a remote border town of Mauritania.
20120212 AFP Nigeria on Saturday deployed thousands of police for a governor's election in Bayelsa, the oil-rich home state of President Goodluck Jonathan that has been wracked by pre-vote violence.
20120212 AFP Kenya's army said on Saturday that four months of military strikes on Shebab rebels in southern Somalia have weakened the Al-Qaeda-linked insurgents and have disrupted their sources of revenue.
20120212 AFP Martin Guptill's continued domination of the Zimbabwe bowling steered New Zealand to a seven-wicket win with 19 balls to spare in the opening Twenty20 match at Eden Park Saturday.
20120212 AFP Sahel states are bracing for a long, potentially deadly hungry season, many weakened by the return of people from Libya who are unemployed, armed and creating fresh strife in already-vulnerable countries.
20120212 AFP Rebels in Sudan are holding captive six Sudanese civilian engineers who worked with a group of Chinese freed by the rebels several days ago, a spokesman for the insurgents said on Saturday.
20120212 AFP Two explosions went off Friday outside a customs building in Nigeria's flashpoint city of Maiduguri, killing four bombers and wounding two soldiers, the military and residents said.
20120212 AFP Thousands of people rallied outside Egypt's defence ministry Friday calling for the military rulers' ouster a day before a civil disobedience campaign marking Hosni Mubarak's overthrow a year ago.
20120212 AP NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Al-Qaida's decision to formally extend its terror franchise to what once was a nationalist movement in Somalia may only be a desperate joining of hands to prop up two militant groups that are both losing popular support and facing increasingly deadly military attacks, analysts said Friday.
20120209 Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund on Wednesday extended Angola's loan program by a few weeks to March 30, 2012, to give it time to sign off on a final review of the country's $1.4 billion standby arrangement.
20120209 Reuters JOHANNESBURG/CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - A study submitted to South Africa's ruling ANC to reform its vital mining sector proposes a 50 percent tax on profits and rejects nationalisation as an "unmitigated disaster" for Africa's largest economy.
20120209 Reuters MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber killed at least nine people on Wednesday near a hotel where lawmakers often gather in the Somali capital Mogadishu, police said.
20120209 Reuters ROME (Reuters) - Conflict, population displacement and high food prices mean millions of people in South Sudan face hunger this year, two U.N. food agencies said on Wednesday.
20120209 Reuters LONDON (Reuters) - Somali piracy in the Indian Ocean costs the global economy some $7 billion a year, a study said on Wednesday, with ships forced to travel faster over longer routes and increasingly hire armed security guards.
20120209 Reuters CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - A review of a global scheme to monitor blood diamonds could bring changes to the Kimberley Process, under fire over its damaging loopholes, but the United States on Tuesday dampened hopes of a swift and comprehensive overhaul.
20120209 Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - International donors have made any financial support they provide to Egypt contingent on Cairo first reaching agreement on a financing package with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the country's prime minister said on Wednesday.
