20101026
africanews

Unknown gunmen have shot dead three shop owners and wounded three of their shop assistants in a shop attack in Cape Town in South Africa.

20101025
africanews

The mayor of Nairobi Geoffrey Majiwa was arrested on Monday by anti-corruption agents over a US$3.5 million [Sh283 million] cemetery scandal.

20101022
allAfrica.com

Disputed polls held in 2000 led to widespread violence and the division of the country between the rebel-held north and the government-controlled south. During the conflict the nation became awash in arms. Among those who were armed were former militia members recruited by the government of President Laurent Gbagbo. However, efforts at disarmament have failed. Now armed men, largely operating out of western Cote d’Ivoire, are terrorizing the local population, according to a report released today by U.S.-based Human Rights Watch (HRW). Matt Wells, HRW West Africa researcher, spoke with allAfrica about the violations occurring in the west, particularly against women.

20101022
Afran cooperator

Today, the opposition parties under IPC (inter-party cooperation ) headed by IPC flag bearer for the 2011general elections have stormed the Electoral Commission headquarters in Kampala to task the Head of the commission upon the preparations of A clean voter’s register ahead as a major perquisite to a free and fair election let come 2011.

20101022
Afran cooperator

NPR terminated the contract of Juan Williams on Wednesday after comments the veteran journalist and news analyst made about Muslims on Fox's "The O'Reilly Factor."

20101022
africanews

The African Union called on the United Nations on Thursday to approve a naval and air blockade of Somalia. The blockade would stop arms and foreign fighters reaching Al-Qaeda linked group of Al-Shabaab, said the AU's commissioner for peace and security, Ramtane Lamamra.

20101022
africanews

The United Nations is committed to nurture the development of State institutions and restore stability in war torn Somalia, UN Chief Ban Ki-moon told the Security Council on Thursday. He said the UN will move closer to the people of Somalia.

20101018
UN News

Citing critical issues still outstanding less than three months before referenda take place on whether southern Sudan secedes from Africa's largest country and reported troop build-ups by both sides, the United Nations today pledged to increase its capacity as needed to prevent confrontations that could derail the entire peace process.

20101018
africanews

Tunisian champions Esperance Sportive de Tunis will play holders TP Mazembe of DR Congo in the final of this year's CAF Champions League after beating Egyptian giants Al Ahly 1-0 in Tunis on Sunday night. Nigerian striker Michael Eneramo had the match winner with a controversial hand ball goal.

20101018
africanews

The official list of the much-awaited GLO/CAF 2010 Footballer of the Year Award will be out in the first week of November, according to the Secretary General of the continental football governing body Hicham El Amrani.

20101010
Monitor

UPDF soldiers are part of the African Union (Amisom) force helping to bring peace to the war-weary Somalia. UPDF Maj. Gen. Nathan Mugisha, who is also the Amisom overall commander, speaks on a wide range of issues related to Amisom's attempt to stabilise Somalia.

20101009
Nation

Nairobi — In the matter of Luis Moreno-Ocampo versus certain unnamed politicians, the verdict is out. And it is a clear victory for the Argentine.

20100926
RFI

Army chiefs from Algeria, Mali, Mauritania and Niger are meeting in southern Algeria on Sunday to discuss security in the region. Meanwhile, AFP says a Malian source has confirmed that seven hostages kidnapped in Niger last week are alive in Mali.

20100926
Nation

Nairobi — African diplomats have told India that they will not allow their sportspeople to lodge in facilities that do not meet minimum hygienic standards after their inspection of the Commonwealth Games village discovered it was in "unsanitary with inadequate bed-capacity".

20100925
reuters

ISMAILIA, Egypt (Reuters) - Dozens of armed Bedouins surrounded a police station in central Sinai on Friday, locking in 15 police officers and setting a car ablaze in the worst bout of violence in the region for nearly two months.

20100924
africanews

The HIV/AIDS situation is improving in rural Malawi. The Malawi council of Churches (MCC), an interfaith Christian organization told AfricaNews it was encouraging to note that cases of people being infected and affected were declining as compared to those in earlier years.

20100921
allAfrica.com

New York — At the opening of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Summit on Monday, mixed reactions greeted the World Bank's announcement of an additional U.S.$750 million funding of basic education in sub-Saharan Africa and other parts of the world that are not on track to meet the education MDGs by 2015.

20100920
africanews

Internet search giant, Google, has launched the Wolof interface for Google Web Search in Senegal. Forty-five volunteers in collaboration with Google Senegal and the University of Gaston Berger of Saint Louis in northern Senegal teamed up for the translation marathon.

20100917
NEW YORK (Reuters)

A U.S. Appeals Court on Friday dismissed a case against Royal Dutch Shell Plc that could have held the company liable over accusations it assisted Nigerian authorities in violently suppressing protests against oil exploration in the 1990s.

20100911
reuters

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's power utility Eskom said on Friday it may get an additional 150 billion rand in state support to pay for new power plants and ease an electricity supply shortfall.