20110121
Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)

Mogadishu — Heavy clash between Somali forces with the help of African Union peacekeepers and Al Shabaab fighters re-erupted in the Somali capital Mogadishu, killing at least 2 persons and wounding 6 others in Mogadishu, witnesses said on Saturday.

20110122
Garowe Online (Garowe)

A political dispute between Somalia's weak Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and the state government of Puntland in northern Somalia escalated Saturday after Puntland banned TFG officials from visiting the peaceful state, Radio Garowe reports.

20110122
Garowe Online (Garowe)

At least 22 people including many civilians were killed in Somalia' s capital Mogadishu and in Middle Shabelle region, Radio Garowe reports.

20110121
UN News

Top officials from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are arriving in Angola this weekend to help boost the Government's efforts to halt an ongoing polio outbreak centred in the capital, Luanda.

20110122
Vanguard

NINE days after he lost to President Goodluck Jonathan at last Thursday's Presidential Primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar yesterday attributed his failure to become the party's flagbearer to what he described as the absence of a level playing ground.

20110122
Daily Independent (Lagos)

Lagos — A bill meant to ensure enthronement of internal democracy within the various registered political parties is in the offing, Sunday Independent can confirm.

20110122
this day

President-elect of Cote d'Ivoire, Allassaine Ouattara yesterday sent his Prime Minister, Guillaume Soro to President Goodluck Jonathan in continuation of his lobby to reclaim his mandate from Laurent Gbagbo.

20110121
RFI

Police in Algeria broke up a rally of about 300 people in the capital who defied a government ban on a demonstration Saturday, according to a pro-democracy activist. Several people were arrested, including an opposition lawmaker.

20110121
America.gov

Juba — Nearly 99 percent of South Sudanese have voted for secession in a closely-watched referendum, according to provisional returns released Friday, 21 January.

20110123
IRIB NEWS
Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Saeed Jalili said Tehran is ready for further talks with major world powers provided that its rights are not violated, refuting claims that it has set preconditions.

20110123
IRIB NEWS
The Islamic Republic of Iran has rejected a request to hold a bilateral meeting with America during ongoing talks in Istanbul with G5+1 over its nuclear program, an Iranian official said on Saturday.

20110123
FNA
TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian negotiators in talks with the Group 5+1 (the US, France, Britain, China and Russia plus Germany) in Istanbul, Turkey, called on the world powers to give up their wrong policies and strategies and stop opposing the other nations' rights.

20110123
IRNA
Mashad, Jan 23, IRNA – Head of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) bureau in Mashad, capital of eastern province of Khorasan Razavi, said that Iran has played an active and special role for refugees in the region.

20110121
BuaNews

Pretoria — The United States is working with its African partners to impose sanctions against Laurent Gbagbo and his supporters and broadened a travel ban in the latest bid to pressure the Ivory Coast President to step down.

20110121
TradeInvest

Endemic budget deficits and the inefficient management of large infrastructure projects and services within the public sector are a few of the reasons why the traditional procurement method of governments funding infrastructure projects through fiscal budgets is increasingly considered unviable.

20110121
SANF

Southern Africa will host a global climate conference this year that is expected to produce an international agreement to address climate change.

20110121
PlusNews

Nairobi — Following the Pope's comments in a 2010 book to the effect that condom use may be permissible by HIV-positive sex workers to prevent HIV infection, many Roman Catholic Kenyans have found themselves at odds with their church leaders, who have retained their firm stance against condom use.

20110121
RFI

Nairobi — More than 30 MPs mainly from Rift Valley and Central Kenya jammed Eldoret International Airport Friday to welcome President Kibaki who was in Eldoret for a national reconciliation and healing rally.

20110121
BuaNews

Pretoria — Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba says Eskom's bond oversubscription is a sign of investor confidence in South Africa.

20110121
RFI

Demands that deposed President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's former allies be purged from Tunisia's political life continue, as the country starts three days of mourning for those killed by security forces during the revolt that toppled him.