20110512 presstv Libyan state TV has showed footage of Muammar Gaddafi meeting officials in Tripoli, dampening mounting speculations that the embattled ruler was injured in an April airstrike.
20110512 Reuters KINSHASA (Reuters) - More than 400,000 women are raped in the Democratic Republic of Congo every year, according to a study by U.S. researchers published on Wednesday, but the United Nations has expressed doubt over the findings.
20110512 Reuters NAIROBI (Reuters) - Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye flew home on Thursday, a day after being barred from making the journey, and hours before President Yoweri Museveni was due to be sworn into a fourth term.
20110512 Reuters HARARE (Reuters) - President Robert Mugabe's party will press for elections in Zimbabwe this year, state media reported on Thursday, in a move set to trigger a fresh dispute with its partners in a fragile unity government.
20110512 Reuters TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan state television showed footage of Muammar Gaddafi meeting officials in a Tripoli hotel, ending nearly two weeks of doubt over his fate since a NATO air strike killed his son.
20110512 Reuters TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisian authorities referred the case against ousted leader Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali to a military court on Wednesday, the official TAP news agency reported.
20110512 Reuters PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (Reuters) - The Nigerian army clashed with militants in the creeks of the Niger Delta on Wednesday, the first such skirmish for months in the heartland of Africa's biggest oil and gas industry.
20110512 Reuters KAMPALA (Reuters) - A Uganda bill that at draft stage had proposed the death penalty for homosexuals who are "repeat offenders" disappeared from the parliament's agenda on Wednesday after severe pressure from foreign activists.
Nearly 600 people may have drowned when a boat broke up off the coast of Libya, the United Nations refugee agency reported today as it called on European countries to urgently improve their mechanisms for rescues at sea.
Chad's incumbent president, Idriss Deby, has been returned to power in an election boycotted by the opposition, according to preliminary results published by the country's election commission.
Harare — South African President Jacob Zuma will soon meet leaders of political parties in Zimbabwe's coalition government to discuss the reform of the security, which has been identified as the major obstacle to a credible election.
PRETORIA (Reuters) - South Africa's government could jeopardise Wal-Mart's $2.4 billion bid for retailer Massmart if it demands local procurement targets, the chief executive of the South African retailer said on Tuesday.
LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - Gabon's President Ali Bongo Ondimba has asked a court to rule on whether the central African oil nation can delay legislative elections by a year to allow it to focus on staging January's Africa Cup of Nations (CAN).
CAIRO May 10 (Reuters Life!) - Rare paintings by some of Egypt's most renowned artists thought to have belonged to the country's former royal family have been found by workers renovating a Cairo museum.
CAIRO (Reuters) - A cousin of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi denied on Tuesday a report that the Egyptian authorities had placed him under house arrest in Cairo.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's former tourism minister was sentenced to five years' imprisonment on Tuesday for squandering public funds, the second member of former President Hosni Mubarak's cabinet to be jailed for financial misconduct.
