20120205 AP GIYANI, South Africa (AP) — The giant pipes lying idle along the road were supposed to deliver water from a dam completed six years ago to villages across the region.
20120204 AFP Zambia, Ivory Coast, Gabon and Ghana appear the likely winners of the 2012 Cup of Nations quarter-finals across central Africa this weekend.
20120204 AFP A second day of clashes with Egyptian police left three protesters dead on Friday as anger against the ruling military boiled over amid fury at the recent deaths of 74 people in football-related violence.
20120204 AFP Sudan is closer to war than peace with the breakaway state of South Sudan, President Omar al-Bashir said on national television on Friday, with a dispute over oil and other issues stoking tensions.
20120204 AFP Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade accused the opposition Friday of fanning deadly unrest as his opponents vowed to pursue their campaign to block him from standing for a third term in office.
20120204 AFP Mali sought Friday to stamp out growing fury over a Tuareg rebellion in the troubled north which has sparked protests over the government's response to the offensive and attacks on light-skinned citizens.
20120204 AFP Zambian corruption investigators on Friday arrested a former minister on theft charges and recorded a statement from ex-president Rupiah Banda's wife in another probe, an official said.
20120204 AP NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Sudan's military bombed a Bible school built by a U.S. Christian aid group, prompting students and teachers at the school to run for their lives in the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan state.
20120204 AFP Two American women and their Egyptian tour guide, who were captured by armed Bedouins in the Sinai peninsula on Friday, were released unharmed after several hours, security officials said.
20120204 AP NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The United Nations said Friday that Somalia's famine is over, but the world body's Food and Agricultural Organization warned that continued assistance is needed to stop the region from slipping back.
20120204 AFP Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague said Friday there was an "opportunity" to end the crisis in Somalia and tackle terrorism and piracy there, after a landmark visit to the war-torn nation.
20120204 AFP A member of Islamist group Boko Haram has confirmed one of the group's high-ranking members was arrested, but refuted reports that the detained person was its spokesman.
20120204 AFP A South African court on Friday dismissed a case brought by two opposition parties challenging the government's failure to grant the Dalai Lama a visa last year.
20120204 AFP Lukman Ayodeji makes his living pumping air into tyres next to a tattered shack in a bustling Lagos market -- and now he's worried he'll end up flat broke.
20120204 AFP Uganda on Friday signed production agreements with Anglo-Irish firm Tullow Oil, allowing the company to finalise a long-delayed $2.9 billion asset sale to France's Total and China's CNOOC.
20120202 Reuters PORT SAID, Egypt (Reuters) - Seventy-four people were killed when supporters clashed at an Egyptian soccer match, prompting fans and politicians on Thursday to turn on the ruling army for failing to prevent the deadliest incident since Hosni Mubarak was ousted.
20120202 Reuters UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. mission in South Sudan is investigating reports of a massacre of nearly 80 people by armed men in uniforms in Africa's youngest nation, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
