JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) - South Sudanese leaders said on Sunday they were considering building a new capital after their expected independence as the current hub Juba lacked infrastructure and space for new business.
PRAIA (Reuters) - Voters in Cape Verde cast their ballots in a parliamentary election on Sunday that is likely to be dominated by the two parties that have exchanged power over the last two decades in the island nation.
ALGIERS (Reuters) - An Algerian man doused himself with fuel and tried to set himself on fire on Sunday during a small protest outside a government ministry in the capital to demand more jobs.
MUNICH (Reuters) - Astonished by the uprising in Egypt, Western countries anxious to be on the right side of history have started to reassess ties to army-backed Arab strongmen stubbornly opposed to democracy.
MUNICH (Reuters) - The United Nations on Sunday drove home the warning from Western nations that a transition to democracy in Egypt should not be rushed to avoid worsening the crisis and destabilising the entire Middle East.
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Several thousand youths loyal to Ivory Coast incumbent Laurent Gbagbo marched through Abidjan on Saturday to protest the presence of Burkina Faso's president on a mediation panel aiming to resolve a post-election crisis.
LONDON (Reuters) - Egypt's new vice president, Omar Suleiman, has long sought to demonize the opposition Muslim Brotherhood in his contacts with skeptical U.S. officials, leaked diplomatic cables show, raising questions whether he can act as an honest broker in the country's political crisis.
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Ugandan police said they believe terrorists are targeting Kampala before national elections this month, the latest in a series of threats since twin bombs killed 79 people in the capital last year.
JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) - At least 50 people have died as a mutiny in the Sudan army spread through towns in oil-producing Upper Nile state, stoking tension as the south prepares for independence, the military said on Sunday.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt tried to get the nation back to work on Sunday with banks reopening, and the vice president held unprecedented talks with a banned Islamist group and other opponents about their demand that President Hosni Mubarak quit.
Nairobi — Sudan is expecting the recent flurry of meetings between American and Sudanese diplomats to bring about a normalization in ties with the ultimate goal of removing Sudan's name from the US blacklist of countries sponsoring terrorism and remedying Sudan's debts problem, a Sudanese diplomat said today.
Juba — While the referendum on self determination for citizens from the oil-producing region of South Sudan, to decide whether they should remain part of a united Sudan or vote to form an independent nation has gone smoothly, talks over the region of Abyei are stalled and tensions are high as roads remained closed.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak met his new government for the first time as demonstrators against his rule gathered again on Cairo's Tahrir Square Saturday.
Cairo — The massive economic toll of Egypt's popular uprising appears to be motivating the government to take extraordinary and often brutal measures to put an end to massive demonstrations calling for President Hosni Mubarak to step down.
The Nigerian government refused to discuss a prisoner transfer agreement with Britain in 2009, insisting that the Crown Prosecution Service dropped corruption charges against former governor of Delta State, James Ibori, WikiLeaks documents disclosed Friday.
The top United Nations official for Somalia voiced disappointment today at the transitional parliament's extension of its mandate by three years beyond the August deadline by which it was to enact a new constitution and hold general elections in the war-torn country.
Kigali — The High Court, yesterday, sentenced two journalists of the weekly tabloid, Umurabyo, Agnes Nkusi Uwimana, the editor and her co-writer, Saidath Mukakibibi, to 17 years and 7 years in jail respectively.
Washington — President Obama said violence against peaceful demonstrators and the shutdown of information sources will not resolve Egypt's political unrest, and he repeated his call for the Egyptian government to immediately begin an orderly transition process that includes a broad section of the Egyptian opposition and addresses their grievances.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has resigned as leader of Egypt's ruling party, along with the rest of the party's leadership, according to television reports.
