20110709 Reuters JUBA (Reuters) - The South Sudanese parliament speaker read out the formal declaration of independence for the Republic of South Sudan on Saturday, the final step in a 2005 deal that followed decades of war between the north and south.
20110709 Reuters KINSHASA (Reuters) - An airliner ploughed into dense forest as it tried to land during a rainstorm in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday, killing 127 people on board, the Congolese transport ministry said.
20110709 Reuters UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council voted on Friday to establish a force of up to 7,000 peacekeepers for poor, conflict-ravaged but oil-producing South Sudan, which became independent after a referendum.
20110709 Reuters DAFNIYA/AL-QAWALISH, Libya (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi threatened to take the war in Libya to Europe on Friday while rebels came under heavy fire as they renewed their push against his forces.
20110709 Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Egyptians packed city centres across the country on Friday to demand faster reforms and voice frustration at what they regard as foot-dragging by military rulers and government officials.
20110709 Reuters JUBA (Reuters) - Egypt recognised the state of South Sudan on Saturday after its split from the north, Foreign Minister Mohammed el-Orabi said.
20110709 Reuters KINSHASA (Reuters) - A Congolese military officer in charge of soldiers accused of raping 170 woman has returned to a military base with some of his men, but it is not clear if he will be arrested.
20110709 Reuters N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Senegal will next week send former Chadian president Hissene Habre, who is accused of thousands of killings during his rule, back home, where he would be given a fair trial, Chad said on Friday.
20110709 Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three accused Somali pirates were charged in a U.S. court on Friday with the murder, kidnapping and hostage-taking of two American couples in February and could face the death penalty if convicted.
20110707 Reuters KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir vowed to fight northern rebels and boycott future international peace talks on Thursday as he put up a bold front two days ahead of the secession of the south of his country.
20110707 Reuters GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday that negotiations were underway to end the conflict in Libya and that leader Muammar Gaddafi should draw conclusions based on his people's best interests.
20110707 Reuters JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) - Southern Sudanese in the country-in-waiting's capital are sprucing up streets, confiscating black market guns and trying to impose order on frenetic traffic to make sure independence day goes smoothly on Saturday.
20110707 Reuters DAKAR (Reuters) - Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade has said he must "learn a lesson" from violent protests against his government, but did not specify whether this would alter his controversial plan to stand for re-election.
20110707 Reuters NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan police fired tear gas to disperse people protesting in the capital on Thursday against high food and fuel prices and a shortage of the staple maize that has enraged many in east Africa's biggest economy.
20110707 Reuters LONDON (Reuters) - More than a billion people in 19 countries are now covered by laws requiring large, graphic health warnings on tobacco packs but too many countries are still not doing enough to cut smoking rates, the World Health Organisation said on Thursday.
20110707 Reuters THE HAGUE (Reuters) - A Dutch appeals court sentenced on Thursday a Hutu man to life imprisonment on war crimes charges during Rwanda's 1994 genocide.
20110707 Reuters ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's returning oil minister may have the support of the president but with Africa's largest energy industry stalling she will need to show swift progress to prove her critics wrong and attract much-needed investment.
20110707 Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's government plans to reshuffle senior police to remove officers implicated in a violent crackdown on anti-government protests in January, a state-run newspaper said on Thursday.
20110707 Reuters JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A century ago, it was the explorers and infantrymen of Europe's great powers slugging it out for slices of Africa. Now, it is the agents of Chinese and Brazilian capital, but the competition is just as fierce.
20110706 Reuters UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - South Sudan could become a United Nations member state quickly after seceding from the north, under a timetable given by the U.N. Security Council's president on Tuesday.
