20110914 Reuters JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Former South African President Nelson Mandela is alive and well despite rumours on social media sites on Tuesday that he has died, state-owned broadcaster SABC reported.
20110914 Reuters HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe had no intention to cancel the mining licences of foreign mining groups and will continue talks with some miners over a law requiring them to give Zimbabweans a 51 percent stake in their local holdings, the country's mines minister said on Wednesday.
20110914 Reuters MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's Islamist rebel group al Shabaab said on Wednesday it was not behind the kidnapping of a British woman from a luxury beach resort in neighbouring Kenya.
20110914 Reuters NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's cabinet on Tuesday proposed delaying next year's elections by four months, a suggestion that risked angering citizens determined politicians should stick to a timetable set out in the country's new constitution.
20110914 Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said on Wednesday Turkey may carry out gas exploration in the Mediterranean with Egypt and that it was considering importing gas from the north African country.
20110914 Reuters KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's President on Tuesday appointed his first vice president from the Darfur region -- but rebels from the strife-torn territory dismissed it as an empty gesture that would not answer their call for a bigger say in government.
20110914 Reuters ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - World powers should take advantage of a retreat by Somalia's al Shabaab rebels and step up efforts to defeat them by backing government troops and imposing a no-fly zone and a sea blockade, the African Union said on Tuesday.
20110914 Reuters ONITSHA, Nigeria (Reuters) - An Islamist sect responsible for a series of deadly bombings in Nigeria in recent months could target universities in the south of Africa's most populous nation, police said on Wednesday.
20110913 Reuters RAS LANUF/TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya's interim leader has made his first public speech in Tripoli, warning against reprisals after loyalists of the ousted Muammar Gaddafi struck out at the revolutionaries pursuing them.
20110913 Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The World Bank on Tuesday said it officially recognized the ruling National Transitional Council as Libya's government and had been asked to help lead efforts to restore vital services and develop jobs programs as the country tries to return to normal after a six-month war.
20110913 Reuters LONDON (Reuters) - Forces on both sides of the Libyan war have committed war crimes and the country risks descending into a bloody cycle of attacks and reprisals unless order can be established, human rights group Amnesty International said on Tuesday.
20110913 Reuters HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe and Zimplats, the local unit of the world's second-largest platinum producer Impala Platinum, said on Tuesday they had agreed to produce a revised plan for a law requiring mining firms to turn over a 51 percent stake to local blacks.
20110913 Reuters JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling ANC does not plan to throw firebrand youth leader Julius Malema out of the party and he should be helped "to do the right things" rather than be punished, President Jacob Zuma said in an interview published on Tuesday.
20110913 Reuters LISBON (Reuters) - An Angolan court on Monday sentenced 17 people to prison sentences of up to three months for their involvement in an anti-government rally on September 3 that resulted in violent clashes in the capital Luanda, Voice of America (VOA) reported.
20110913 Reuters PARIS (Reuters) - France and Rwanda looked to turn over a new leaf in relations on Monday after years of tension over Rwanda's 1994 genocide.
20110913 Reuters ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's security challenges following bombings by a radical Islamist sect are holding back some foreign investment in the oil-rich country, President Goodluck Jonathan said on Monday.
20110913 Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Taypip Erdogan received an enthusiastic welcome in Egypt at the start of a North African tour which will assert Turkey's role as a friend and helper of the popular movements that have toppled long-standing Arab leaders.
20110912 Reuters TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Defiant and angry, captured Libyan spy chief Bouzaid Dorda denied any wrongdoing when he was presented to Reuters reporters on Sunday by the former insurgents who tracked him down in the capital Tripoli the previous day.
20110912 Reuters CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinea President Alpha Conde said on Sunday he believes the governments of Senegal and Gambia were complicit in a failed attempt to assassinate him in July.
20110912 Reuters JOS, Nigeria (Reuters) - An explosion shook an outdoor bar in the central Nigerian town of Jos on Sunday, a military spokesman said, the latest unrest in a region where religious clashes have killed over 70 people in recent weeks.
