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War vets threaten Angola elections over unpaid pensions
Jul 10, 2012 (AFP)
A decade after the end of Angola's brutal civil war, veterans are threatening to block general elections in seven weeks if authorities fail to pay them their pr...
Mali to form 1,200-strong elite force to protect transition
Jul 09, 2012 (AFP)
Mali's transition government on Monday announced the creation of an elite force of 1,200 troops to protect the leaders of the country's embattled interim regime...
UN soldier dies as DR Congo rebels take Uganda border post
Jul 06, 2012 (AFP)
A UN soldier from India was killed in clashes between renegade soldiers and DR Congo troops on the border with Uganda, the United Nations said Friday as the mut...
Developing world has less than five percent chance of meeting UN child hunger target
Jul 06, 2012 (SPX)
Insufficient progress has been made in most developing countries to meet the United Nations' target of halving the proportion of children who suffer from hunger...
S.African game farmer jailed for 8 years over rhino horn
Jul 04, 2012 (AFP)
A South African game farm owner has been jailed for eight years for the illegal possession of 38 rhino horns as soaring black market prices drive massive poachi...
Chimpanzees cleared after mauling American in S.Africa: park
Jul 03, 2012 (AFP)
Two chimpanzees who mauled an American student in South Africa will not be killed because authorities found the animals defended their territory against a tresp...
Rwanda gorillas prosper despite guerrillas next door
Jul 01, 2012 (AFP)
Baby gorillas roll around as their mothers tuck into juicy plant shoots: mountain gorillas are highly endangered, but the 27 members of the Agashya family are w...
23,000 Angolans back home as refugee status ends
Jun 30, 2012 (AFP)
The United Nations refugee agency said a total of 23,000 Angolans have been repatriated since last year from neighbouring countries where their refugee status o...
Kenyan army hunts kidnappers of four foreign aid workers
Jun 30, 2012 (AFP)
Kenyan security forces on Saturday scoured border regions with war-torn Somalia in the hunt for armed kidnappers who seized four aid workers from Dadaab, the wo...
UNESCO warns Timbuktu in danger amid Mali unrest
Jun 28, 2012 (AFP)
The UN cultural organisation UNESCO on Thursday listed Mali's legendary town of Timbuktu as endangered world heritage because of the deadly unrest hitting the W...
Shell says close to launch of test drilling off Guiana coast
Jun 28, 2012 (AFP)
The Anglo-Dutch oil group Shell is making final preparations before beginning to drill exploration wells off the coast of French Guiana, its French subsidiary s...
New revolt escalates endless DRC war
Jun 25, 2012 (UPI)
The 15-year-old civil war in the mineral-rich Democratic Republic of Congo seems to go on and on forever. In the latest spasm of savagery in a conflict known as...
Hotel inside S.Africa's Kruger Park irks conservationists
Jun 25, 2012 (AFP)
South Africa's world-renowned Kruger National Park is to get its first luxury hotel, but not everyone is impressed by the decision aimed at attracting the growi...
Once-violent Mogadishu now growing
Jun 23, 2012 (UPI)
When Ahmed Jama Mohamed returned to Mogadishu, Somalia in 2008 to open a business, he was acting against all odds. The fight between al-Shabaab, a group affilia...
More DR Congo soldiers desert ranks: mutineers
Jun 23, 2012 (AFP)
More than 100 soldiers including two senior officers have quit the army in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to join a mutinous armed force known as M23, the...
Nigerian leader sacks security adviser, defence minister
Jun 22, 2012 (AFP)
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan fired his national security adviser and defence minister on Friday, his spokesman said, as fears mounted over spiralling un...
'I was shot for defying Kagame', says Rwanda's ex-army boss
Jun 21, 2012 (AFP)
Rwanda's former army chief told a South African court Thursday that he was shot two years ago for defying President Paul Kagame, as he testified in the trial of...
Rwanda's ex-army boss testifies of betrayal in murder bid
Jun 20, 2012 (AFP)
Former Rwandan army chief Faustin Nyamwasa took the stand Wednesday in the trial of six men accused of trying to kill him, detailing how his trusted driver had ...
Lions on the loose in Kenyan capital's urban jungle
Jun 17, 2012 (AFP)
When Danish author Karen Blixen penned her autobiography "Out of Africa", she wrote of the fierce leopards and lions that prowled the coffee estate she farmed a...
US expanding secret spy bases in Africa: report
Jun 14, 2012 (AFP)
The United States military is expanding a secret network of air bases across Africa in order to spy on Al-Qaeda and other militant groups, the Washington Post r...
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