20111018 Reuters ABUJA (Reuters) - Gunmen attacked a ship supplying an Exxon Mobil oil platform off the Nigerian coast, the company said on Tuesday, less than three weeks after someone was kidnapped from a vessel at one of its facilities in the same waters.
20111018 Reuters ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) - Madagascar's interim government has resigned, a move required under the terms of a political road map signed by the Indian Ocean island's main political parties last month that paved the way for elections within a year.
20111018 Reuters DAKAR (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama's deployment of 100 military advisers to help defeat Uganda's notorious Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) may yield him a popular foreign policy win but risks triggering more violence if it fails.
20111018 Reuters YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Seven opposition candidates who took part in Cameroon's presidential election asked the Supreme Court on Monday to annul the October 9 vote and call a fresh one within six months.
20111017 Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt began the trial on Sunday of former Prime Minister Atef Obeid and other officials accused of illegally selling an island nature reserve to a businessman close to deposed president Hosni Mubarak.
20111017 Reuters MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Kenyan and Somali forces were hunting down rebel al Shabaab fighters in southern Somalia on Monday, in an offensive to drive the militants, linked to a wave of kidnappings, away from the countries' shared border.
20111017 Reuters MONROVIA (Reuters) - Liberia's main opposition candidate Winston Tubman, withdrew a demand for a recount of a presidential poll and said he will take part in a runoff.
20111017 Reuters JOS, Nigeria (Reuters) - A bomb explosion killed at least three people on Sunday at a police base in northern Nigeria, authorities said, a region plagued by attacks by a radical Islamist sect.
20111017 Reuters DUBAI (Reuters) - A television station based in Syria that supports Muammar Gaddafi confirmed on Monday that the deposed Libyan leader's son Khamis had died in fighting southeast of the capital Tripoli on August 29.
20111017 Reuters TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Fighters loyal to Libya's new rulers broke into a locked part of Tripoli's main hospital at the weekend and discovered the remains of 17 people, including a baby, in what staff said was a secret morgue for Muammar Gaddafi's opponents.
20111017 Reuters BUJUMBURA (Reuters) - Police seized weapons and police uniforms during a raid on Burundi's main university in which a student died from inhaling teargas, and another was arrested, a spokesman said on Sunday.
20111017 Reuters ABIDJAN (Reuters) - An International Criminal Court investigation into Ivory Coast's post-election conflict will focus on two to six people thought most responsible for atrocities, the prosecutor said during a visit to the country.
20111025 Reuters SIRTE (Reuters)- Libyan government fighters battled on Sunday to subdue pockets of resistance by pro-Gaddafi fighters, whose refusal to abandon the ousted leader's hometown of Sirte is delaying Libya's move to democracy.
20111016 Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said in a letter to Congress on Friday he is deploying around 100 U.S. military advisers to Uganda to support regional forces pursuing Joseph Kony and other Lord's Resistance Army commanders.
20111016 Reuters KINSHASA (Reuters) - More than 18,000 candidates will battle for 500 seats in the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DCR) parliamentary elections, set for November 28, the electoral commission said on Friday.
20111016 Reuters troops and police to its northern border on Saturday and said it would hunt down Somalian al Shabaab insurgents after the kidnapping of two Spanish aid workers.
20111016 Reuters MONROVIA (Reuters) - Nine Liberian opposition parties, including President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf's two main challengers, have rejected election results announced so far but the poll organisers said the vote had been credible.
20111016 Reuters TRIPOLI (Reuters) - The armed men wearing the colours of Libya's new government are everywhere, eyes darting side to side, some edgy, others excited, as they train anti-aircraft guns on Tripoli's most pro-Gaddafi neighbourhood.
20111016 Reuters KAMPALA (Reuters) - Residents and rights groups said U.S. troops being sent to Uganda would give a fresh impetus to the fight against Lord's Resistance Army rebels accused of murder and kidnapping children and capturing their leader.
20111016 Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - At least 2,000 people rallied in Cairo on Friday in a show of unity between Muslims and Christians and to express anger at the ruling military council after 25 people died when a protest by Coptic Christians led to clashes with the army.
