20120116 AP KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Rwandan President Paul Kagame said Sunday he's "not very excited" by a report released by a French commission that found that the missile fire that brought down the Rwandan president's plane in 1994 and sparked the country's genocide came from a military camp and not Tutsi rebels.
20120116 AFP International oil companies gathered on Sunday to study six exploration blocks that Sudan opened for bidding ahead of talks aimed at resolving a long-running oil fee dispute with South Sudan.
20120116 AP BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) — Thousands of residents and dignitaries gathered Sunday to pay their final respects to Guinea-Bissau's late President Malam Bacai Sanha.
20120116 AFP Revenues from Egypt's lucrative tourist industry dropped by 30 percent in 2011 due to unrest that rocked the country following the ouster of president Hosni Mubarak, the minister of tourism said on Sunday.
20120116 AFP Steady South African Branden Grace pipped sizzling Englishman Jamie Elson by one shot on Sunday to win the Joburg Open and his maiden European Tour title.
20120116 AFP Egypt's Suez Canal Authority earned 5.22 billion dollars in revenues last year, almost half a billion dollars more than the previous year, its chairman said on Sunday.
20120116 AFP Nobel peace prize winner Mohamed ElBaradei's decision to quit the race for the presidency was seen in Egypt as a slap in the face for military rulers and one depriving liberals of a key force.
20120116 AP NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — An increasingly vocal Islamist group says its leader has been appointed to represent an al-Qaida-linked Somali militia in Kenya, a development that underscores the dangers Kenya faces from Somalia's insurgency.
20120116 AFP Nigeria's government and union leaders have failed to reach a deal over fuel prices in talks aimed at ending a week-old nationwide strike, but a threat to halt crude production has been put on hold.
20120115 AFP Ex-UN nuclear watchdog chief and Nobel peace laureate Mohamed ElBaradei ended his candidacy for Egypt's presidency Saturday, saying he could not run because there is still no real democracy there.
20120115 AFP Boston and New York marathon champion Geoffrey Mutai began the new track season in style on Saturday when he beat a strong field to retain the Kenya Police Inter-Divisional Cross-Country title.
20120115 AFP Weary and hungry, scores weave their way through rutted and chaotic alleys in a food market in Nigeria's largest city, seeking to replenish their food stocks after a week-long strike against soaring fuel prices shut down the country.
20120115 AFP Sitting on the edge of the bed beside his nine-year-old daughter recovering from a gunshot wounds, Mangiro recounted how he lost the rest of his family in recent tribal clashes in South Sudan’s troubled state of Jonglei.
20120115 AFP The Sudanese military on Saturday denied bombing civilians in an operation which rebels said left 16 villagers and five government troops dead near the South Sudanese frontier.
20120115 AP BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) — The body of Guinea-Bissau's late President Malam Bacai Sanha has been flown back from Paris to the this tiny, coup-prone nation a day before the funeral.
20120115 AFP Burundi denied Saturday that it had asked for an exiled Burundian opposition leader to be arrested in Tanzania and extradited to face murder charges.
