AFRICA NEWS - AFRICA DAILY

Attacks, clash in north Nigeria kill several, burn buildings

Oct 19, 2012 (AFP)

Attacks and gun battles between suspected Islamists and security forces in a northeastern Nigerian town have killed several people and destroyed buildings, resi...

Liberian president in Ivory Coast to discuss border security

Oct 18, 2012 (AFP)

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf arrived Thursday in Ivory Coast to discuss security on the countries' border, which has been violated in recent months ...

US Army general nominated to Africa command

Oct 18, 2012 (AFP)

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Thursday nominated a former senior commander in Afghanistan as the new head of the military's Africa Command, which oversees U...

Soldiers accused of abuses after Nigeria student massacre

Oct 18, 2012 (AFP)

Nigerian troops have been accused of indiscriminate shootings and other abuses in a troubled town where gunmen this month massacred 40 people, including student...

Life expectancy shoots up to 60 in SAfrica: study

Oct 18, 2012 (AFP)

Life expectancy in AIDS-hit South Africa has shot up by six years to 60 over the past few years, thanks to life prolonging anti-retroviral (ARVs) treatment, a d...

DRCongo, Uganda Muslims banned from Mecca over Ebola epidemic

Oct 18, 2012 (AFP)

Saudi Arabia has banned Muslims from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda from making the pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca this year because of chole...

Liberia,ICoast to hold joint manoeuvres on border by end of year

Oct 18, 2012 (AFP)

Ivory Coast and Liberia are to hold joint military exercises by the end of the year, the presidents of the two countries said on Thursday, noting that joint act...

Africa faces spike in older people living with HIV

Oct 18, 2012 (AFP)

Sub-Saharan Africa is likely to see a more than 200 percent increase in the number of older people living with HIV in the next 30 years, thanks to improvements ...

Four dead after day of violence in restive Nigerian city

Oct 14, 2012 (AFP)

Nigeria's restive city of Maiduguri was on Sunday rocked by a roadside blast and two separate gun attacks that killed at least four people including a local chi...

Critical bishop expelled from Chad back in Italy

Oct 14, 2012 (AFP)

An Italian Catholic bishop expelled from Chad for criticising the mismanagement of oil revenues returned to Italy on Sunday after 36 years of missionary work in...

Thousands march in Mali to urge armed intervention against Islamists

Oct 11, 2012 (AFP)

Several thousand people marched Thursday in Mali's capital Bamako to call for armed intervention by a west African force to help wrest back the vast north from ...

Thousands march in Mali to urge intervention against Islamists

Oct 11, 2012 (AFP)

Several thousand people marched in Mali's capital Bamako on Thursday to call for armed intervention by a West African regional force to help wrest back the vast...

Amnesty International calls on DRCongo to halt clashes in east

Oct 10, 2012 (AFP)

Amnesty International called Wednesday on the Democratic Republic of Congo to put an end to the fighting in the east of the country where several local and fore...

Nigerian army denies rampage, killing civilians after attack

Oct 09, 2012 (AFP)

Nigeria's army on Tuesday denied killing civilians and burning homes and shops after a bomb attack in the city of Maiduguri, despite residents' claims of as man...

Ivory Coast to reopen Ghana border on Monday: defence minister

Oct 08, 2012 (AFP)

Ivory Coast's land and sea borders with Ghana, closed after a deadly attack on September 21, will reopen Monday, the defence minister announced late Sunday. Pau...

Nigeria military shoots dead several people after blast: witnesses

Oct 08, 2012 (AFP)

Residents of a troubled northern Nigeria city accused soldiers of indiscriminately firing and killing several people Monday, after a bomb exploded on an army pa...

Nigerian college says massacre not linked to campus vote

Oct 04, 2012 (AFP)

Officials from a Nigerian college near the site of a massacre that left at least 40 people dead this week dismissed reports Thursday that the killings were link...

Poor but at peace, Mozambique marks 20 years since civil war

Oct 04, 2012 (AFP)

Marking two decades since the end of a debilitating civil war, Mozambique's president on Thursday said the country must now focus on exploiting its vast resourc...

Ivory Coast opens first major trial of soldiers in political crisis

Oct 02, 2012 (AFP)

The first major trial opened Tuesday of soldiers loyal to ousted Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo in connection with crimes during the country's post-electi...

Nigeria seeks to end the curse of unfinished projects

Oct 01, 2012 (AFP)

Countless kilometres of road, many fine factories and hundreds more projects exist only as dreams in Nigeria despite years of promises, so Kashim Ali faced seri...