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Independence won, freedom yet to come for South Sudan
Mar 03, 2013 (AFP)
It was the pouring rain on his parched lips that woke South Sudanese lawyer Ring Bulabek, left for dead in a cemetery after three days of bloody beatings by att...
Amnesty International accuses I. Coast army of abuses
Feb 26, 2013 (AFP)
Ivory Coast's army has committed "widespread human rights violations" against supporters of ousted former president Laurent Gbagbo, Amnesty International said i...
Somalia: Resurgent al-Shabaab targets president 'dead or alive'
Feb 25, 2013 (UPI)
Al-Shabaab Islamic militants linked to al-Qaida say their suicide attack on the presidential compound in Mogadishu was aimed at killing or kidnapping Somalia's ...
Regional leaders sign peace deal for eastern DR Congo
Feb 24, 2013 (AFP)
Regional African leaders signed a deal on Sunday aimed at bringing peace and stability to the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo with plans to reinforce a UN-...
Guinea soldiers quit I.Coast village in border dispute
Feb 23, 2013 (AFP)
Guinean soldiers have withdrawn from an Ivorian village they took over late last month in a border dispute dating back to the days of independence, an Ivorian s...
Rising Islamist threat in West Africa
Feb 21, 2013 (UPI)
Fourteen foreigners, among them a seven-member French family that includes four children, have been kidnapped by Islamist militants in Nigeria and neighboring C...
Life expectancy surges in AIDS-hit SAfrican region
Feb 21, 2013 (AFP)
Distributing antiretroviral drugs in the South African province worst hit by AIDS boosted average life expectancy there by more than 11 years, according to rese...
ICoast, Guinea vow peaceful resolution to border dispute
Feb 20, 2013 (AFP)
Ivory Coast will seek to peacefully resolve a border dispute with Guinea that has seen an Ivorian village occupied by Guinean soldiers since late January, a gov...
South Sudan president retires over 100 army generals
Feb 18, 2013 (AFP)
South Sudan has retired over 100 generals as part of a sweeping restructuring of the former rebel force, in a move partly aimed at demilitarising the fledgling ...
Pistorius shooting puts spotlight on S.African gun violence
Feb 15, 2013 (AFP)
Charged with shooting dead his girlfriend, fallen South African athlete Oscar Pistorius has put a renewed spotlight on gun violence in a country where 42 people...
US warns of tensions on Sudan-S.Sudan border
Feb 15, 2013 (AFP)
The United States on Friday warned of a dangerous increase in tensions on the undemarcated border between Sudan and South Sudan after reports of clashes between...
EU mulls cost and spillover risks of turmoil in Africa
Feb 14, 2013 (UPI)
Turmoil in Africa, dubbed in Brussels as the European Union's back yard, poses a growing challenge to EU concerns over regional security and defense cost overru...
Plane carrying Guinea army delegation crashes in Liberia
Feb 11, 2013 (AFP)
A plane carrying a military delegation from Guinea to attend an annual armed forces day in Liberia crashed Monday in the Liberian town of Charlesville, Monrovia...
Jane Goodall: chimp scientist turned activist
Feb 10, 2013 (AFP)
When Jane Goodall, chimpanzee activist and the first scientist to observe that apes as well as humans use tools, "knocks at somebody's door they come," said Ian...
Algeria: President's aide blasts powerful spy chief ahead of election
Feb 05, 2013 (UPI)
The leader of the dominant National Liberation Front has publicly attacked the country's powerful intelligence chief and demanded he step down in what's seen as...
Ghana extradites ex-military chief to I. Coast: security
Feb 05, 2013 (AFP)
Ghana has arrested and extradited Major Jean-Noel Abehi, a key figure in Ivory Coast's security services under ousted president Laurent Gbagbo, an Ivorian secur...
Sudan president in Eritrea after Asmara mutiny: reports
Feb 02, 2013 (AFP)
Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir held talks with his Eritrean counterpart Issaias Afeworki on Saturday, official media reported, on a visit to Asmara just days ...
Central African rebels warn president over peace deal
Jan 30, 2013 (AFP)
The Central African Republic's main rebel grouping on Wednesday accused the president of not keeping his end of the peace deal that brought an end to their mili...
Kenya braces for election bloodletting
Jan 29, 2013 (UPI)
Kenya is bracing for bloodshed during its March 4 presidential election, which is more about tribal power politics than ideologies or policies. About 1,500 peop...
DR Congo peace deal signing cancelled: UN
Jan 28, 2013 (AFP)
The signing of a peace deal for troubled eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where rebels control swathes of mineral-rich territory, was "cancelled" Monday, U...
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