20120207
AFP
The Swiss-based commodities trader Glencore said it had reached agreement with Swiss mining group Xstrata on a merger that would create a global group worth $90 billion.

20120207
AFP
Chad Monday announced it was reopening a major oil refinery it had earlier ordered shut because of a price dispute with its Chinese part-owners.

20120207
AFP
Gunmen blew up a police station and shot one officer in Nigeria's flashpoint city of Kano on Monday as blasts rocked a market in Maiduguri, the base of the Boko Haram Islamists, police said.

20120207
AFP
More than 1,500 Malians fleeing a Tuareg rebellion in the north and reprisal attacks in Bamako have found refuge in neighbouring Burkina Faso, a security official said Monday.

20120207
AP
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — The city of Kidal in the far north of Mali is on high alert after Tuareg rebels said Monday they have taken up strategic positions around the locality, setting the stage for the first aggression against a major city.

20120207
AFP
One protester was killed on Monday in clashes with police outside Cairo's security headquarters in the wake of deadly football violence and amid calls by activists for civil disobedience in Egypt.

20120207
AFP
South Africa's government sought to reassure investors as a major mining conference kicked off Monday that it has no plans to nationalise its mines despite the radical rhetoric of some in the ruling ANC.

20120207
AP
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Political parties in Sierra Leone say a top U.N. representative to the nation is leaving as polls approach later this year.

20120207
AP
YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — Cameroon state radio says that Mount Cameroon, a volcano in the country's southwest region, sent ashes and flames into the air in a brief explosion.

20120207
AP
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — President Barack Obama's 91-year-old step-grandmother suffered bruises and shock after a car she was traveling in rolled over, a relative and a hospital official said Monday.

20120207
AFP
Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade, whose reelection bid has drawn criticism from abroad, said in his opening campaign rally that France and the United States had no right to ask him to step aside.

20120207
AP
BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — Police in Malawi say they have fired tear gas to disperse stone-throwing vendors resisting orders they move off the streets to designated flea markets.

20120207
AP
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Testimony before an inquest into a Zimbabwean power broker's fiery death ended Monday, leaving the last hours of Gen. Solomon Mujuru's life shrouded in suspicion he was murdered by political rivals.

20120206
Press TV
President of the Somali Red Crescent Society has expressed gratitude to Iran for Tehran’s significant contribution of humanitarian aid to the famine-stricken African nation, Press TV reports.

20120206
Reuters
(Reuters) - Egypt's army-backed government said it was preparing to move ousted President Hosni Mubarak to a Cairo prison hospital in an apparent bid to calm protests, but clashes continued with police firing tear gas at demonstrators hurling rocks and broken tiles.

20120206
Reuters
(Reuters) - Egyptian airport authorities on Sunday prevented the chief executive of Egypt's investment bank EFG-Hermes from traveling to the Emirates when it was discovered that his name was among a list of Egyptian officials banned from leaving the state, airport sources said.

20120206
Reuters
(Reuters) - The cases of 40 U.S. citizens, other foreigners and Egyptians embroiled in a dispute over the activities and funding of pro-democracy groups have been referred to court, judicial sources said on Saturday, deepening a row with the United States.

20120206
Reuters
(Reuters) - Libya started and then swiftly postponed court proceedings Sunday against 41 Libyans accused of helping Muammar Gaddafi crush the popular revolt that ended in his death last year, Libyan news agency LANA said on Sunday.

20120206
Reuters
(Reuters) - Egypt will prepare Cairo's Torah prison hospital so it can receive ousted President Hosni Mubarak from the military hospital where he is now detained, an Interior Ministry official said on Sunday, an announcement that could help calm protests.

20120206
Reuters
(Reuters) - Nigeria's ruling People's Democratic party (PDP) won a governorship election in the northern state of Adamawa, despite fierce criticism over the party's handling of an insurgency in the north.