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S.Africa says to repatriate assets to Libya
The South African government would repatriate to Libya assets reportedly stashed by slain Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, President Jacob Zuma said on Wednesday.This would be done according to the UN protocol, Zuma told the National Assembly (parliament) in Cape Town.The South African government announced on Friday that it would repatriate Libyan funds and assets under an agreement reached with ...
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2 South Africans killed in Somalia attack
Two South Africans are among the 15 people killed in an attack on the UN compound in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday.Citing the Somali Interior Ministry, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) said the two South Africans, yet to be identified, apparently belonged to the African Union Mission for Somalia (AMISOM).Al-Qaida linked Al-Shabaab insurgents in Somalia have claimed ...
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Libya Refugees asylum-seekers and migrants held indefinitely in deplorable conditions
The Libyan authorities must act immediately to end the indefinite detention of refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants, including children, solely for immigration purposes, Amnesty International said in a ...
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Italian killed fighting in Syria suspected of recruiting terrorists
Italian officials said an Italian Muslim convert who was killed fighting against the Syrian government was believed to have recruited terrorists in Italy. Prosecutors in Genoa Wednesday said Giuliano Ibrahim Delnevo, 24, allegedly recruited one Italian Muslim convert and three North Africans with online sermons and a blog, ANSA of Rome reported. The five men were being investigated for ...
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Chadian troops kill jihadist leaders in Mali
The President of Chad, Idriss Deby, today announced that two of the key Islamist leaders recently terrorising northern Mali have been shot dead by his troops. At the same time, Chad mourns 26 casualties among its troops in ...
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Ghana con-men sell sand as fertilizer
Impostors in Ghana are giving new meaning to the expression of "selling sand in the Sahara." The gang managed to sell sacks of sand to poor farmers, telling them it was ...
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Libyas ambassador in Namibia defects
A Namibian-based diplomat at the Libyan Embassy has defected to join anti-Ghaddafi and pro-democracy movement at home and abroad. Saad Bakar (44) and his family have left Namibia for "a Mediterranean ...
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Nigeria farmers double cassava yields
Nigerian farmers have more than doubled the yield of cassava, thanks to new varieties and a little bit of "juju" delivered to the Oyo state after a food crisis in ...
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Security Council Press Statement on Somalia
has claimed responsibility and which has caused numerous deaths and ...
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Nigeria not yet at food sufficiency destination – Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday admitted that his administration had yet to reach the desired destination in its quest to eradicate hunger in the country through food ...
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Algeria urged to reveal truth of decapitated monks’ deaths
Algeria in 1996 have appealed to French president Franois Hollande to fulfil his promise to ensure that Algeria co-operates in investigating their deaths. Members of the order had lived for 50 years in the monastery of Our Lady of the Atlas, at Tibhirine, in the Algerian mountains. Their story was told in Xavier Beauvois's 2010 ...
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Military French sailor kidnapped by pirates off coast of Togo rescued by troops in Nigeria
LAGOS, Nigeria - Nigeria's military says its troops have rescued a French sailor kidnapped by pirates off the coast of Togo. Spokesman Lt. Col. Onyema Nwachukwu said youths in Nigeria's southern Bayelsa state told authorities about the presence of a foreigner, and a military rescue operation was launched. He said the captors escaped before the soldiers arrived Tuesday. Pirates ...
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Nigeria-Uruguay Preview Super Eagles look to land knockout blow
It was a case of mixed fortunes for Nigeria and Uruguay in their opening Confederations Cup fixtures.The history books will tell of a resounding 6-1 win for the Super Eagles over minnows Tahiti, but the Africa Cup of Nations champions were far from at their best and came in for criticism after the game.Dynamo Kiev striker Ideye Brown could be named in the starting XI at the expense of Anthony ...
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African Union chief No comment on North Africa
The opposition of Equatorial Guinea today denounced President Teodoro Obiang Ngeuma, who is also the current African Union (AU) President, for keeping quiet on the North African ...
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Ethiopia crackdown on opposition to prevent protests
The Ethiopian opposition reports that over 250 of its central members have been arrested during the week. The arrests are seen in connection with a planned mass ...
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Ethiopias Ogaden rebels issue famine alert
Rebel groups in Ogaden fighting the Ethiopian government warn of a "severe drought" in the region, which could develop into famine. They claim government is withholding ...
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Gabon opposition chief faces treason case
Mr Obame leads the one-year-old National Union party, uniting many of Gabon's main opposition parties. In the August 2009 presidential election, Mr Obame stood as an independent candidate, losing out to interim President Ali Bongo. The Gabonese opposition leader in January created international headlines as he declared himself winner of the elections held 17 months earlier. The declaration ...
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Cameroon limits social media services
The government of Cameroon has ordered mobile operator MTN to suspend an SMS service that had proven a powerful tool for protest movements in North ...
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Libya could produce more solar power than oil
Libya could generate approximately five times the amount of energy from solar power than it currently produces in crude oil, according to researchers. This would be achieved from only 0.1 percent of the desert country's ...
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Output at Libyas Abu Attifel oilfield to resume -source
TRIPOLI, June 19 | Wed Jun 19, 2013 5:15pm EDT TRIPOLI, June 19 (Reuters) - Production at Libya's Abu Attifel oilfield will resume on Thursday after a deal was reached with workers who had gone on strike over salaries, a source working at the field said. "There were talks with members of the national congress and production is set to resume on Thursday," the source told ...
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Nigeria Gunmen kill 48 in Zamfara state
lasted more than five hours and some of the gunmen positioned on the hill also shot at residents of neighboring villages who tried to help those in Kizara. "I woke up in the morning to get my children set for work on my farm. I suddenly started to hear gun shots. I listened attentively and I realized that sounds of the gun shots were coming directly behind me," said Alhaji Ali Hakimi, ...
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Mali government rebels sign peace accord
Rebels in northern Mali signed a peace agreement with the Malian government, resolving a stumbling block to the West African country's reconstruction. The peace accord calls for the deployment of the army to Kidal, a Saharan outpost near the Algerian border held by the ethnic Tuareg group. It follows an intervention by the French military in early 2013 that help swing the momentum in the ...
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Armchair Travel Take a Trip to Nigeria with Writer Chinelo Okparanta
Happiness, Like Water '; comes out this August. Okparanta takes us to the country of her birth, Nigeria. Her three picks cover a lot of ground from Nigeria’s colonial past to the Biafran War of the late 1960′s and early ’70s to present day ...
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Group Exclude Chad troops from UN force in Mali
UNITED NATIONS -; A network of human rights groups on Wednesday criticized plans to include Chadian troops in a new U.N. peacekeeping force for Mali while Chad's military remains on a U.N. `list of shame' for child recruitment. But U.N. officials made clear they had no intention of excluding a country whose soldiers are considered among the best African desert ...
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Mali govt signs cease-fire accord with Tuareg rebels
OUAGADOUGOU--Mali's government signed a cease-fire accord with Tuareg rebels Tuesday, paving the way for presidential elections in the troubled west African state next ...
Sudan Spotlight
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Sudan and the South
In January of 2011 the future of Sudan as a unified country will be decided. A referendum is due to be held in South Sudan that will decide whether the regional government of the area, which accounts for around a third of Sudan, should break away from the rest of the country and become a fully-independent nation.
South Sudan has a long history of being at odds with the rest of the country and this conflict of interests has been attributed in Western media to the fact that northern Sudan is primarily Muslim and Arab dominated, whereas South Sudan is made up of indigenous African cultures and ethnicities, this view has been reinforced by the ongoing violence in Darfur, a region of Sudan where a genocide is occurring and has led to President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan being charged with war crimes by the International Court at The Hague, a charge that the government in Khartoum categorically denies. Read more
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