ACCRA, March 11 (Xinhua) -- The state-run Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) announced here on Friday that it had begun a process to identify and dismiss 194 illegal members of staff.
JOS, Nigeria, Mrach. 11 (Xinhua) -- Nigerian troops operating in central north Plateau State have seized a full truck load of sophisticated ammunitions.
GENEVA, March 12 (Xinhua) -- The UN Human Rights Council named three high-level experts here on Friday to investigate alleged violations of international human rights law in Libya.
RIO DE JANEIRO, March 11 (Xinhua) -- Brazilian journalist Andrei Netto, who was arrested nine days ago while reporting the ongoing unrest in Libya, left the North African nation on Friday, local media reported.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's President Jacob Zuma has ordered the Treasury to freeze assets linked to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and his associates, a government official said on Friday.
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan rebels repelled a counter-offensive by leader Muammar Gaddafi's troop on Friday, but appealed to foreign powers to impose a no-fly zone to stop further attacks overrunning their three-week uprising.
RAS JDIR CAMP, Tunisia (Reuters) - Hundreds of African migrants who fled the violence in Libya to a refugee camp in Tunisia are refusing to return to their home countries where they say they would face poverty or violence.
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's mining companies would be comfortable with selling stakes of 26 percent to local owners under a government plan that aims to eventually transfer majority control, the head of the mining chamber said on Friday.
HARARE (Reuters) - Western diplomats in Zimbabwe are worried by rising political violence and have urged security forces and the judiciary to remain impartial.
LUSAKA (Reuters) - An alliance between Zambia's two largest opposition parties collapsed on Friday, increasing President Rupiah Banda's chances of winning elections later this year.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Doing business in Africa is not for the faint-hearted and requires patience, good local staff and above all respect for the continent, bankers and executives say.
ABIDJAN/ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Senegal's leader, Abdoulaye Wade, said on Friday Ivory Coast was "entering a phase of war" after the latest attempt by the African Union to resolve a power struggle by diplomacy failed.
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Troops linked to north and south Sudan have taken up new positions in the contested Abyei region, according to satellite monitoring, raising fears of an escalation of violence.
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's Supreme Court has upheld the acquittal of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's ally Roy Bennett on terrorism charges but he now faces new allegations of contempt of court, his lawyer said on Friday.
20110310 Xinhua ABIDJAN, March 9 (Xinhua) -- Cote d'Ivoire's incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo on Wednesday ordered the resumption of cocoa exports in a counter-act to his presidential rival's call for export suspension.
20110310 Xinhua CONAKRY, March 9 (Xinhua) -- A group of new army recruits in a southeastern town in Guinea staged a protest against non-payment and confronted with some soldiers, leaving three people dead, a witness reported on Wednesday.
20110310 Xinhua CAIRO, March 9 (Xinhua) -- Egypt's army on Wednesday evacuated Copt protestors from the Tahrir square in downtown Cairo, state- run MENA reported.
20110310 Xinhua ABIDJAN, March 9 (Xinhua) -- Cote d'Ivoire's sitting president Laurent Gbagbo on Wednesday decided to ban flights throughout the West African country against the UN peacekeeping mission and the French Licorne troops.
20110310 Xinhua NEW DELHI, March 10 (Xinhua) -- India said Thursday that 11 Indians captured along with their ship were finally released by Somali pirates Wednesday, after being held hostage for nearly a year.
20110310 Xinhua BISSAU, March 10 (Xinhua) -- Guinea Bissau's President Malam Bacai Sanha said on Wednesday the country will further expand cooperation with China while receiving a delegation of the Communist Party of China (CPC).
