20110919 Reuters KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan and South Sudan signed a border security agreement on Sunday and said they would set up 10 crossing points, the first time the two neighbours have signed a deal over the tense boundary since the south declared independence in July.
20110919 Reuters MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A British woman, who was kidnapped in Kenya after her husband was killed, is in the hands of Somali pirates in the centre of the lawless Horn of Africa nation, pirates and an elder in the region said on Sunday.
20110919 Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's former Tourism Minister Zoheir Garranah was given a three year jail sentence on Sunday for unlawfully issuing company licenses, the latest jail term for ex-officials who served under ousted President Hosni Mubarak.
20110918 Reuters JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A disciplinary hearing that could decide the political fate of South African firebrand Julius Malema has been postponed until October, the ruling African National Congress (ANC) said.
20110918 Reuters BANI WALID/SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) - Powerful explosions and machinegun fire shook the besieged Libyan desert town of Bani Walid on Sunday as Muammar Gaddafi loyalists shelled lines held by interim government attackers.
20110918 Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt will start parliamentary elections on November 21, Al Arabiya Television and the Al-Ahram newspaper reported on Saturday, the country's first vote since a popular uprising toppled President Hosni Mubarak in February after 30 years of autocratic rule.
20110918 Reuters BANI WALID/SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan interim government forces licked their wounds on Saturday after a failed assault on the town of Bani Walid, and a spokesman for Muammar Gaddafi accused NATO of killing 354 people in overnight air strikes on the city of Sirte.
20110918 Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt and Ethiopia have agreed to set up a technical team to review the impact of a $4.8-billion Nile river dam which Addis Ababa announced in March, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said in Cairo on Saturday.
20110918 Reuters MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Radical Islamist sect suspects facing trial for involvement in deadly bombings, including a suicide attack on a U.N. headquarters, are junior members of the group, a government official said on Saturday.
20110918 Reuters MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia has banned foreign aid workers and journalists from entering areas controlled by al Shabaab insurgents after members of a Turkish charity took food to famine victims in an area under the Islamist group.
20110917 Reuters ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) - Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina bowed to foreign pressure on Saturday and signed a political road map that allows for the unconditional return of his exiled predecessor ahead of elections within a year, mediators and political parties said.
20110917 Reuters BANI WALID/SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) - Diehard loyalists of Muammar Gaddafi unleashed barrages of rockets and mortars to beat back an assault by interim government forces on one of their last bastions in Libya's desert and also held off an advance into his home town.
20110917 Reuters ABUJA (Reuters) - Four suspected members of a radical Islamist sect have been charged with orchestrating a suicide bombing on United Nations headquarters in the Nigerian capital last month that killed at least 23 people. They face the death penalty if found guilty.
20110917 Reuters MOGADISHU (Reuters)- Somali pirates have released a Mongolian-flagged bulk carrier they seized off the coast of Oman in January after receiving a ransom, pirates and a maritime monitoring group said.
20110917 Reuters DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Four people have been charged with causing the deaths of more than 200 people when a crowded ferry sank last week in Zanzibar, local media reported on Saturday.
20110917 Reuters KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Ishraga Youssef was running out of options as food prices spiralled in Sudan's capital Khartoum, so she decided to take drastic action by giving up meat.
20110917 Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is drawing up new guidelines to permit U.S. oil companies to operate in South Sudan without running afoul of U.S. sanctions that apply to Khartoum, a U.S. official said on Friday.
20110917 Reuters KRUGER NATIONAL PARK, South Africa (Reuters) - Europe is ready to recognise Libya's interim government in the United Nations, but will push it to become more inclusive, the European Council president said on Thursday.
20110914 Reuters TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya's new interim leader met the most senior U.S. official to visit Tripoli since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi, though details of Wednesday's talks were not immediately available.
20110914 Reuters HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's empowerment minister, who has been leading a drive to force foreign miners to give 51 percent stakes to locals, told a mining conference on Wednesday the law could be waived.
