20111222 Reuters ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - An Ethiopian court found two Swedish journalists guilty on Wednesday of helping and promoting the outlawed Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) rebel group, and entering the Horn of Africa nation illegally.
20111222 Reuters MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali pirates released an Italian-owned oil tanker and its 22 crew on Wednesday after receiving a multi-million dollar ransom, one of the pirates told Reuters.
20111222 Reuters LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambia's President Michael Sata has appointed as the country's chief prosecutor a renowned corruption-busting lawyer, in move seen as signalling his new government is serious about its fight against graft.
20111222 Reuters JUBA (Reuters) - South Sudan's army said on Tuesday it had killed a prominent rebel leader near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, dealing a blow to insurgents who have threatened the security of the newly-independent nation.
20111222 Reuters KINSHASA (Reuters) - Joseph Kabila was sworn in on Tuesday for a new term as president of Democratic Republic of Congo, promising to improve the business climate and rebuild infrastructure destroyed during decades of conflict.
20111221 Reuters (Reuters) - Egyptian police and soldiers fired guns and teargas to try to clear protesters from Cairo's Tahrir Square on the fifth day of clashes that have killed 13 people and drawn a stinging rebuke from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
20111221 Reuters (Reuters) - Djibouti sent the first soldiers of a 900-strong deployment to neighboring Somalia on Tuesday to bolster an under-staffed peacekeeping mission that is preventing Islamic militants take over the Somali capital.
20111221 Reuters (Reuters) - Egyptian military personnel accused of taking part in violent clashes and human rights violations against protesters will be prosecuted by military courts, an official said on Tuesday.
20111221 AFP Fighting between separatist rebels and Senegal troops left 13 people dead on Tuesday, in the latest violence to hit the Casamance enclave, the military said.
20111221 AFP Sudanese riot police on Tuesday used batons to beat youths shouting anti-regime slogans in support of residents displaced by the giant Merowe dam, an AFP reporter witnessed.
20111221 AFP Gabon's opposition parties that boycotted the December 17 legislative election warned Tuesday they were ruling nothing out as they mulled their reaction to the governing party's landslide.
20111221 AFP Sudan has raised taxes on the Internet, mobile phone calls and other telecommunications, the government said on Tuesday, in a bid to help cover lost oil income from South Sudan.
20111221 AFP The UN Security Council on Tuesday highlighted "grave concern" about killings in Burundi linked to security forces and harassment of opposition groups.
20111221 AP JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan's military forces killed the country's highest-profile rebel leader, a man who posed a significant security threat to peace inside the world's newest country, an official said Tuesday.
20111221 AFP Julius Malema, the suspended youth leader of South Africa's ruling African National Congress, was elected Tuesday to a senior party post by members in his home province of Limpopo.
20111221 AFP Tunisia's new Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali on Tuesday presented his new team to the country's president, though the make up of the new government was not publicly unveiled.
20111221 AFP Joseph Kabila was sworn in Tuesday for another term as president of DR Congo, a job also claimed by his main rival following disputed polls that have plunged the country into deep crisis.
20111221 AP KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — The president of sub-Saharan Africa's largest nation was sworn in Tuesday for another term, pledging to unify the country after an election that was criticized by international observers.
20111221 AFP Egyptians vote again on Wednesday in the run-off of a staggered parliamentary election marred by deadly clashes between protesters and security forces that have left 14 people dead in five days.
