Kampala — Hours after attending his wife's swearing-in at Parliament yesterday, President Museveni issued a strongly-worded statement faulting the police for failing to "eject" Dr Kizza Besigye after he spent more than one hour on Entebbe-Kampala highway last Thursday.
Johannesburg — From 7am on Wednesday over 23 million registered voters will go to over 20,000 polling stations around South Africa to choose who will represent them at local government level.
Addis Ababa — An Ethiopian rebel group, the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) has alleged government forces killed 100 civilians in the Somali region of southeastern Ethiopia, in a week-long military operation.
Maiduguri — A fierce gun battle raged at Gwange area of Maiduguri on Sunday night when gunmen suspected to be members of the Yusufiyya Movement, popularly called Boko Haram, ambushed a military patrol team.
Scientists have discovered two genes in cattle that may help African farmers improve their livelihoods by preventing premature deaths in their herds from the trypanosome parasite that causes "sleeping sickness".
Libya's rebel-held Western Mountains came under intense bombardment on Tuesday from Muammar Gaddafi's army, forcing rebels to briefly pull back from the border with Tunisia as rockets slammed into the desert.
South Africans on Wednesday began voting in municipal elections in which squalid unenclosed toilets built for the country's poor have become a potent symbol of local government neglect.
Uganda's veteran President Yoweri Museveni, facing month-long anti-government protests, pledged on Tuesday to "end this criminality" and accused the police and judiciary of being too soft
Canada, which is participating in NATO's air operations in Libya, has expelled five diplomats from Libya's embassy in Ottawa for "inappropriate" activities, the government said on Tuesday.
Libya's rebel-held Western Mountains came under intense bombardment on Tuesday from Muammar Gaddafi's army, forcing rebels to briefly pull back from the border with Tunisia as rockets slammed into the desert.
Egypt's ruling military council on Wednesday dismissed speculation it would pardon former President Hosni Mubarak, who is under investigation for graft and abuse of power, and said it does not interfere in judicial affairs.
Libya's rebel-held Western Mountains came under intense bombardment on Tuesday from Muammar Gaddafi's army, forcing rebels to briefly pull back from the border with Tunisia as rockets slammed into the desert.
Canada, which is participating in NATO's air operations in Libya, has expelled five diplomats from Libya's embassy in Ottawa for "inappropriate" activities, the government said on Tuesday.
Uganda's veteran President Yoweri Museveni, facing month-long anti-government protests, pledged on Tuesday to "end this criminality" and accused the police and judiciary of being too soft
South Africans on Wednesday began voting in municipal elections in which squalid unenclosed toilets built for the country's poor have become a potent symbol of local government neglect.
The next managing director of the IMF should be from a developing country to ensure the interests of all countries are reflected in its operations, South Africa's Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said on Tuesday.
The chairman of Libya's National Oil Corporation has defected from Muammar Gaddafi's administration and fled to neighbouring Tunisia, a Tunisian security source said on Tuesday.
West African governments need to step up their tactics to fight the rise of drug use and manufacture in countries that have been used as transit hubs, officials said on Tuesday.
An Egyptian rights group said on Tuesday it was "deeply troubled" by the sentencing of a teenager to death and called for the verdict to be overturned.
An Egyptian court on Tuesday released the former chief of staff of toppled President Hosni Mubarak from custody on a 200,000 Egyptian pound bail pending further investigation, the court said.
