20110921 Reuters JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Factional fighting is turning the African National Congress, South Africa's ruling party, into a "shambles" ahead of a leadership election next year, senior ANC officials said on Wednesday.
20110921 Reuters. KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese armed forces clashed with a major rebel group near the border with Libya and Chad in the troubled Darfur region, an army spokesman said on Tuesday.
20110921 Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is building a ring of secret drone bases in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula as part of an aggressive campaign against al Qaeda affiliates in Somalia and Yemen, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing U.S. officials.
20110921 Reuters NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cell phones may bring relief to famine victims in parts of Somalia controlled by al Shabaab insurgents as donors seek new ways to circumvent the hard-line
20110921 Reuters NAIROBI (Reuters) - A plumber found an unexploded hand grenade in the Nairobi building housing the office of Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, but police said it was a harmless training grenade.
20110921 Reuters JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa on Tuesday joined the West, regional rival Nigeria and the African Union in recognizing the National Transitional Council (NTC) as Libya's de facto government.
20110920 Reuters BANI WALID/SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) - Libya's interim government said its forces seized the airport and fort in Sabha, one of the last strongholds of forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi which also controls the main route south out of Libya.
20110920 Reuters BRUSELS/LONDON (Reuters) - A boast by Gaddafi loyalists that they had captured 17 foreign mercenaries this week has been greeted with skepticism, but the claim has highlighted the importance of covert military operations in the overthrow of the Libyan leader.
20110920 Reuters Bujumbura (Reuters) - Gunmen have stormed a bar in Burundi killing at least 36 people, the deadliest attack in the Central African country this year that has heightened fears of a return to civil war.
20110920 Reuters KAMPALA (Reuters) - Ugandan legislators want the speaker to call an emergency session of the house to discuss a government dispute with Britain's Heritage Oil over tax payments, an opposition MP said on Monday.
20110920 Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt approved on Monday the establishment of a party led by a former top official in Hosni Mubarak's now disbanded party and rejected another set up by an Islamist group, the committee charged with reviewing party applications said in a statement.
20110920 Reuters CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) delayed presenting to parliament a widely criticised state-secrecy bill that makes the jailing of whistleblowers legal, lawmakers said on Monday.
20110920 Reuters BANGUI (Reuters) - At least 21 people have been killed in running gun clashes between two former rebel groups seeking control of a diamond-mining area in Central African Republic, sources told Reuters on Monday.
20110920 Reuters LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambians voted on Tuesday in a closely contested election between incumbent Rupiah Banda and opposition leader Michael Sata, who has been a vocal critic of foreign investment in Africa's biggest copper producer, most notably from China.
20110919 Reuters BENGHAZI/BANI WALID, Libya (Reuters) - Libya's interim leaders failed to agree a new cabinet on Sunday and the forces that forced Muammar Gaddafi from power remained bogged down in fighting with troops loyal to the former ruler.
20110919 Reuters ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) - Madagascar will arrest exiled former president Marc Ravalomanana if he returns to the Indian Ocean island, a senior cabinet minister said a day after signing a road map aimed at holding elections within a year.
20110919 Reuters BUJUMBURA (Reuters) - Gunmen in Burundi killed at least 21 people when they stormed a bar outside the capital, Bujumbura, late on Sunday, in the deadliest attack in the central African country this year.
20110919 Reuters ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's state security service has offered a 25 million naira reward for information leading to the capture of the suspected mastermind behind a suicide bomb on U.N. headquarters in the capital last month that killed 23 people.
20110919 Reuters ABIDJAN (Reuters) - The United Nations and regional governments are deploying additional soldiers to Ivory Coast's border area with Liberia after deadly attacks on villages in the densely forested West African region, a military official said.
20110919 Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - Islamists and other political groups sought changes to election rules at a meeting on Sunday with the ruling military to ensure those linked to Hosni Mubarak's now defunct party are blocked from Egypt's first free parliamentary vote in decades.
