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UN trade body says Africa must embrace sustainable economy
Jun 13, 2012 (AFP)
Africa has abundant natural resources to kickstart its economy, but it needs to use them in a sustainable manner and requires outside help to develop, UN agency...
Botswana, climate and tourism
Jun 12, 2012 (SPX)
Botswana's Okavango Delta is a sensitive ecosystem that could be affected detrimentally by climate change. Given the Delta's prominence in the country's tourist...
Madagascan community sets example of saving environment
Jun 12, 2012 (AFP)
With his hat pulled down low over his face, Mamy braved the autumnal winds and rain of the southern hemisphere to proudly point to a range of grey granite mount...
Carbon traders eye Mozambican stoves
Jun 09, 2012 (AFP)
Beaming with pride as she stirs a steaming pot of spinach and nuts, Maria Douca is one of the first in Mozambique's capital to own an ethanol-fired stove, burni...
Contentious Angolan troops end Guinea-Bissau pullout
Jun 09, 2012 (AFP)
Angolan troops, whose presence in Guinea-Bissau angered local soldiers and prompted a coup in April, ended their pullout from the west African country Saturday,...
LRA rebels attack DR Congo wildlife park guards
Jun 07, 2012 (AFP)
Guards in a Democratic Republic of Congo wildlife park were attacked by Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels who are an increasing threat to the reserve, its Sou...
Conflicts hinder Niger, Mali locust control: UN food agency
Jun 05, 2012 (AFP)
Political insecurity and conflicts in North Africa are hindering efforts to control swarms of desert locusts that threaten crops in Niger and Mali, the UN's foo...
Somali soldiers train for urban combat in rural Uganda
Jun 04, 2012 (AFP)
Somali soldiers patrol a quiet village as locals sit on the terrace of a cafe, chatting and reading newspapers, when suddenly rebels armed with assault rifles a...
Sierra Leone's gruesome civil war
May 30, 2012 (AFP)
Sierra Leone's civil war, unleashed by the notorious Revolutionary United Front, was one of Africa's most atrocious in recent history, leaving 120,000 dead and ...
Mali deserters in Niger face uncertain future
May 30, 2012 (AFP)
At a base near Niger's capital Niamey, more than 400 Malian soldiers who deserted in the face of an uprising in the north of their neighbouring country are enca...
Gambia detains G.Bissau ex-army chief, ousted minister
May 29, 2012 (AFP)
Gambia's immigration ministry said Tuesday Guinea-Bissau's former army chief, elections chief and ousted interior minister were being detained "for security rea...
DR Congo senior officer defects to join eastern mutiny
May 29, 2012 (AFP)
At least one senior Congolese army officer has defected with radio equipment and several of his men to join the ranks of a mutiny in the eastern region of Nord-...
West African forces complete G.Bissau deployment
May 27, 2012 (AFP)
The last batches of a 600-strong west African military force charged with restoring stability in Guinea-Bissau after an April coup arrived on Sunday in the unst...
Former G.Bissau army chief, minister flee
May 26, 2012 (AFP)
Former Guinea-Bissau armed forces chief Jose Zamora Induta has fled to a neighbouring country following the coup in his troubled country last month, officials s...
G. Bissau army to return to barracks
May 23, 2012 (AFP)
Guinea-Bissau's armed forces vowed Wednesday to return to their barracks after transitional authorities formed a new government that includes an army officer wh...
Somali, AU troops close in on Islamist stronghold of Afgoye
May 23, 2012 (AFP)
African Union and Somali government troops were within striking distance Wednesday of the key rebel stronghold of Afgoye, site of the world's largest displaced ...
45 Chinese arrested for illegal trading in Nigeria: official
May 22, 2012 (AFP)
Nigeria's immigration service on Tuesday arrested 45 Chinese nationals in the northern city of Kano for allegedly engaging in illegal textile trading, an offici...
UN praises progress in Liberia since end of civil wars
May 20, 2012 (AFP)
Liberia has made considerable progress in the years since back-to-back civil wars devastated the nation and killed about 250,000 people, a UN Security Council d...
Ethiopian shoe factory widens China's Africa footprint
May 20, 2012 (AFP)
A steady drone of machines hum as workers assemble shoes in a Chinese-built industrial park outside Addis Ababa, the first in Ethiopia by the Asian giant deepen...
Army, mutineers clash near DR Congo rare gorilla park
May 19, 2012 (AFP)
Army troops clashed with ex-rebel mutineers in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday in fighting close to a national park famed for its rare gorillas. Th...
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