2012017 AFP Central African Republic police arrested ex-rebel chief Jean-Jacques Demafouth Friday for an alleged bid to destabilise the country, a court official and Demafouth said.
2012017 AFP A Nigerian court issued an order seeking to bar a national strike planned for next week as police blocked protesters on Friday in the capital over soaring fuel prices which have sparked nationwide outrage.
2012017 AFP Rwanda's exports of goods and services increased by 31.7 percent in 2011, driven mainly by mining, tea and coffee, the Trade and Industry Ministry said Friday.
2012017 AFP South Africa's mighty African National Congress on Friday began celebrations for its centenary, still firmly at the helm of Nelson Mandela's all-race democracy despite losing some of its shine.
2012017 AFP Francophonie chief Abdou Diouf Friday deplored a political logjam in Guinea where the government and opposition have been unable to agree on a date for legislative polls to end a period of transition.
2012017 AFP Gunmen fired on Christian mourners in northern Nigeria on Friday, killing 17 in the latest attack to hit the region amid mounting fears of sectarian clashes, residents and a relief source said.
2012017 AFP A jobless Tunisian who set himself alight in the province of Gafsa after being snubbed by cabinet ministers visiting the unemployment-hit region was in a critical state on Friday, doctors said.
2012017 AFP Gunmen have opened fire on worshippers as their eyes were closed in prayer at a Nigerian church, killing six in the latest of a series of attacks on churches in Africa's most populous nation.
2012017 AP GOMBE, Nigeria (AP) — Gunmen attacked a church in northeast Nigeria during a prayer service, spraying the congregation with gunfire and killing at least six people including the pastor's wife.
2012017 AFP Nigerian police blocked protesters from marching to the capital's main parade ground on Friday as part of demonstrations over soaring fuel prices which have sparked nationwide outrage.
2012017 AFP South Africa may have produced two Nobel laureates in literature but a famous bookshop in Johannesburg is nevertheless about to close, a victim of the country's poor reading culture.
2012017 AFP Kenyan police seized landmines and homemade explosive devices Friday in Dadaab, the world's largest refugee camp and site of several attacks and blasts in recent months.
2012017 AFP One of two French hostages seized in Niger last January by Al-Qaeda's North African wing (AQMI) was executed that month by his kidnappers but the other died in a burning vehicle, a jailed AQMI member has said.
2012017 AFP Libya must offer its still-armed revolutionary fighters a future beyond the gun, the country's former interim prime minister said Thursday, warning that failure could spell destabilizing violence.
2012017 AP GOMBE, Nigeria (AP) — Gunmen attacked a church in northeast Nigeria during a prayer service Thursday night, killing at least three people and wounding others in an assault that occurred amid an increasingly violent campaign by a radical Muslim sect.
20120105 Reuters ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian trade unions on Wednesday called for a national strike and mass demonstrations to shut down oil production and other sectors starting on Monday unless the government restores a fuel subsidy it scrapped this week.
20120105 Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - The Islamist Muslim Brotherhood looks set for a dominant role in Egypt's first free parliament in decades and is promising rivals a role in writing a new constitution as military generals face growing pressure to hand power to civilians.
20120105 Reuters KHARTOUM (Reuters) - The United Nations has received alarming reports of malnutrition in two Sudanese border states where the army is fighting insurgents, a senior U.N. official said on Wednesday.
20120105 Reuters DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Twenty illegal Somali migrants suffocated to death as they were being smuggled in a cramped container truck through Tanzania, their bodies dumped on the road, police said on Wednesday.
20120105 Reuters ABUJA (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell's operation in Nigeria is working to plug a leak caused by sabotage that shut its 70,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Nembe Creek pipeline, the company said in a statement emailed to Reuters on Wednesday.
