20111020 Reuters LONDON (Reuters) - Cooperation between Somalia's al Qaeda linked militants and pirate gangs is growing as the al Shabaab group becomes more desperate for funding, the head of the U.N.'s counter-piracy unit said on Thursday.
20111020 Reuters ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Two Swedish journalists pleaded not guilty in an Ethiopian court on Thursday to terrorism charges after they were caught with rebels in the country's Ogaden region in July.
20111020 Reuters DAKAR (Reuters) - A Senegalese opposition activist was jailed for two years on Thursday after he was found guilty of threatening the lives of judges if they do not bar President Abdoulaye Wade from running for a third term.
20111020 Reuters YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Cameroon's top court has rejected an appeal by opposition parties to annul the results of last weekend's presidential election, throwing out their complaints that the vote was rigged by incumbent leader Paul Biya.
20111020 Reuters KINSHASA (Reuters) - Delays in drawing up the voter register and delivering electoral materials are posing a serious threat to the Democratic Republic of Congo's second post-war polls, due in November, with some saying the elections may be postponed.
20111020 Reuters PARIS (Reuters) - Kidnappers who seized a wheelchair-bound French woman, who later died in Somalia, are now trying to sell her body, France's defence minister said on Thursday.
20111020 Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Morocco showed the biggest improvement as a place to do business this year, leading a surge of business-friendly reforms in Africa and Eastern Europe, a World Bank study showed on Wednesday.
20111019 Reuters NAIROBI (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund forecast on Wednesday a rosy outlook for Sub Saharan Africa growth in 2012 but warned of significant risks from global financial volatility that could subdue demand and private inflows into the world's poorest continent.
20111019 Reuters WINDHOEK (Reuters) - Air Namibia will pay $90 million for two new Airbus A319-100 planes to be delivered in 2014, the Namibian daily newspaper New Era said on Wednesday, citing an Airbus executive.
20111019 Reuters MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Torrential rain and thick mud bogged down Kenyan and Somali forces advancing on al Qaeda-linked rebels in the southern Somali town of Afmadow, a military commander said on Wednesday.
20111019 Reuters MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A remotely detonated bomb exploded near the seaport in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, on Wednesday, wounding six people and a man was arrested carrying another explosive device, police said.
20111019 Reuters LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - Gabon's oil trade union held back on Tuesday from a previous threat to call a strike but warned the government it could still take action if its demands on boosting local employment in the sector were not met.
20111019 Reuters YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Preliminary results for Cameroon's presidential election showed a widely expected landslide victory for incumbent Paul Biya, a member of the national vote counting commission told Reuters on Tuesday.
20111019 Reuters TRIPOLI/SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited Libya on Tuesday to urge its disparate militias to unite around their new leaders, while loyalists of ousted Muammar Gaddafi launched a counter-attack in his hometown of Sirte.
20111018 Reuters KAMPALA (Reuters) - Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye was briefly arrested on Tuesday as he took part in a "walk-to-work" protest against surging consumer prices and wasteful government spending on the outskirts of the capital Kampala, his party said.
20111018 Reuters MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Residents fled Afmadow in southern Somalia on Tuesday as al Qaeda-linked rebels rushed in reinforcements and dug defences around the town in anticipation of clashes with advancing Kenyan-backed government troops.
20111018 Reuters NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya has arrested two British citizens suspected of ties to Somalia's al Qaeda-linked rebels as they crossed the border into the Horn of Africa country, Kenyan police said on Tuesday.
20111018 Reuters MONROVIA (Reuters) - Former Liberia rebel leader Prince Johnson, who is third place in the first round of the presidential election, said on Tuesday he will back President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf in the November 8 runoff against Winston Tubman of the CDC party.
20111018 Reuters GABORONE (Reuters) - At least eight people were killed when a small plane carrying foreign tourists failed to take off and caught fire in the Okavango Delta region of northern Botswana, officials said on Tuesday.
20111018 Reuters LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambia miners at Chinese-owned NFC Africa Mining went on strike again on Tuesday after the company refused to raise their wages by nearly 100 percent as agreed last week, the National Union of Mine and Allied Workers said.
