20120103 AFP The cradle of the anti-apartheid movement, Soweto is no longer the ANC bastion it once was, with locals disillusioned by poor service delivery and constant squandering of public money.
20120103 AFP Egyptians were set to vote on Tuesday in the final round of a landmark post-revolution election that has propelled Islamist movements into the centre stage of politics.
20120103 AFP Burkina Faso's president fired the country's customs chief Monday after his detention over the seizure of nearly three million euros ($3.8 million) in trunks carried by a relative, sources close to the enquiry said Monday.
20120103 AFP Ten percent of the seats in a proposed Libyan constituent assembly will be reserved for women, a draft electoral law published on Monday said, triggering harsh reaction from a human rights watchdog.
20120103 AFP Thousands of Dakar residents found themselves stranded on Monday as bus and taxi drivers took part in a two-day strike over high fuel prices, leaving some to turn to horse-drawn carts to get around.
20120103 AFP An Algerian court sentenced one of the most radical leaders of Al-Qaeda's north Africa branch in his absence Monday to life in prison for creating "an international terror group", his lawyer said.
20120103 AFP The head of the Congolese Senate, who was attacked and hospitalised in Paris at the weekend, is recovering and will leave hospital within 48 hours, an aide said on Monday.
20120103 AFP Sudanese authorities on Monday shut down the newspaper of the opposition Popular Congress Party -- just months after it started publishing again following an earlier raid.
20120103 AFP Police fired tear gas at protesters in the Nigerian capital Monday as anger mounted after the government ended fuel subsidies, more than doubling petrol prices in the poverty stricken country.
20120103 AFP Somalia's Islamist insurgents on Monday vowed to recapture a key town they lost two days earlier to a joint push by Ethiopian troops, government forces and allied local militia.
20120103 AFP Queues formed at petrol stations, protests broke out and unions threatened to paralyse Nigeria on Monday over a deeply controversial measure that has more than doubled pump prices.
20120103 AFP At least eight people drowned and more are feared dead after a boat capsized in rough seas off the Kenyan tourist island of Lamu, police said Monday.
20120103 AFP A purported spokesman for Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram has issued an ultimatum to Christians in the country's north and threatened troops after the president declared a state of emergency in hard hit areas.
20120103 AFP The Congolese authorities beefed up security at Bukavu central prison on Monday following an attempted jail break that left eight people dead and 44 wounded.
20120103 AP LAMU, Kenya (AP) — Rescue personnel scoured Kenya's coastal waters Monday after a passenger boat collided with a ship carrying oil drums and capsized, killing at least seven people, officials said.
20120102 AP LAMU, Kenya (AP) — The Red Cross says a passenger boat on the Kenyan coast has capsized, killing at least seven people and leaving more than two dozen missing.
20120102 AFP At least eight people drowned and more are feared dead after a boat capsized in rough seas off the Kenyan tourist island of Lamu, police said Monday.
20120102 AFP Eight people died and 44 were injured on Sunday during an attempted jail break in the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo's Sud-Kivu province, police said.
20120102 AFP South Sudan government forces were moving into the flashpoint town of Pibor on Sunday to tackle escalating tribal violence that has forced thousands of people to flee and put the United Nations on high alert.
20120102 AFP Five people were killed in a New Year's Eve hand grenade attack and shooting in a bar in the eastern Kenyan town of Garissa near the border with Somalia, police said Sunday.
