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Africans consumers targeted as key by electronics firms

Mar 25, 2012 (AFP)

From solar-powered lights to televisions that can withstand power blackouts, electronics mega-firms are wooing African consumers with products that target local...

Nigerian president says Mali coup a setback to democracy

Mar 22, 2012 (AFP)

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said Thursday's military coup in Mali was "an apparent setback to the consolidation of democracy" and urged reinstatement o...

Fed up with northern rebellion, Mali soldiers revolt

Mar 21, 2012 (AFP)

Renegade Malian soldiers traded gunfire with troops outside the presidential palace on Wednesday and seized the state broadcasting station amid fury over govern...

Efforts to save lives in Nigeria with clean cookstoves

Mar 20, 2012 (AFP)

A UN-linked body launched a campaign in Nigeria on Tuesday aimed at preventing deaths due to toxic smoke from rudimentary cookstoves, one of the developing worl...

GBissau ex-military intelligence officer killed: sources

Mar 19, 2012 (AFP)

The former deputy head of military intelligence in Guinea Bissau, colonel Samba Diallo, was killed on a street in the capital Bissau by men wearing military uni...

Guinea-Bissau army denies involvement in assassination

Mar 19, 2012 (AFP)

Guinea-Bissau military officials have denied the army was involved in the assassination of an ex-intelligence chief in a country where murder often settles scor...

War fears as Ethiopia attacks Eritrea

Mar 19, 2012 (UPI)

Ethiopia says its forces, already in Somalia fighting Islamic insurgents allied with al-Qaida, have attacked "rebel bases" in longtime rival Eritrea, raising fe...

Algeria conflict shapes US military strategy

Mar 15, 2012 (AFP)

The French military experience in Algeria 50 years ago has left an indelible mark on a new generation of US officers, who have tried to apply the lessons of the...

Ethiopia says it has attacked Eritrean military base

Mar 15, 2012 (AFP)

Ethiopia attacked an Eritrean military base on Thursday in response to the killing earlier this year of five European tourists in Ethiopia's Afar region, a gove...

Bloodhounds deployed to fight elephant poaching in DR Congo

Mar 12, 2012 (AFP)

The Democratic Republic of Congo's famed Virunga National Park has deployed bloodhounds to track down elephant poachers, a park official said Monday. "The first...

Former Ugandan child soldier backs viral video

Mar 09, 2012 (AFP)

A former child soldier at the heart of a viral campaign to bring accused Ugandan war criminal Joseph Kony to justice said Friday he backed the video and urged p...

AU troops to replace Ethopian forces in key Somali cities

Mar 09, 2012 (AFP)

African Union troops are set to replace Ethiopian forces in two Somali cities recently taken from Shebab rebels, the AU Commissioner for the Peace and Security ...

Mali rebels strike amid post-Libya anarchy

Mar 08, 2012 (UPI)

North Africa, never the most placid of places, has been plunged into turmoil in recent weeks by groups of heavily armed fighters that have fanned out across the...

Campaign to arrest Uganda rebel chief goes viral

Mar 07, 2012 (AFP)

A campaign to bring accused war criminal Joseph Kony, the fugitive head of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army rebels, to justice has gone viral on the Internet. Th...

Algerian Islamists set to score in polls

Mar 06, 2012 (UPI)

Newly legalized Islamic parties in Algeria, which fought a savage war with Muslim fundamentalists throughout the 1990s, are likely to score heavily in parliamen...

US pledges aid after 150 die in Congo blast

Mar 06, 2012 (AFP)

The United States led international pledges of emergency aid to Congo after huge blasts at an arms depot in Brazzaville killed more than 150 people and left 1,0...

Nigerian soldiers killed in creek attack: government

Mar 02, 2012 (AFP)

Four Nigeria soldiers are missing and presumed dead after an attack by gunmen in the southern oil-rich Niger Delta creeks, the military and a state government s...

ICC issues warrant for Sudan defence minister

Mar 01, 2012 (AFP)

The International Criminal Court said on Thursday it has issued an arrest warrant for Sudan's defence minister for crimes against the civilian population in Dar...

South Sudan rebels sign truce deal with government

Feb 28, 2012 (AFP)

South Sudan has signed a ceasefire with the largest of several rebel groups which threaten the stability of the world's newest nation, the government said on Tu...

UN asks Angola for helicopters

Feb 27, 2012 (AFP)

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday asked Angola to provide helicopters for peacekeeping missions in countries including the Democratic Republic of Congo...