Pirates hijacked a South Korean bulk carrier off Somalia's coast Wednesday but were thwarted in a separate attempt to seize a Greek ship, a maritime official said.
Talks aimed at forming a government of national unity to end Zimbabwe's long political crisis resumed Wednesday amid mounting optimism.
A rebel group turned opposition party that resorted to violence the last time it lost at the polls has accepted defeat in Angola's parliamentary elections.
Power-sharing talks in Zimbabwe entered their second day Tuesday amid reports they might collapse if President Robert Mugabe does not concede to opposition demands.
Professor Wangari Maathai was the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of the Green Belt Foundation, a Kenyan environmental organization.
South African President Thabo Mbeki was holding new talks aimed at resolving Zimbabwe's political crisis Monday, a day after the opposition leader questioned whether Mbeki was the right mediator for the job.
It's very rarely African cities get compared with their flashy European counterparts, yet, when it comes to cost of living Lagos isn't just competing with its neighbors in Europe -- it's beating them.
The death toll from a devastating rockslide that buried a shanty town rose to 47 on Monday, a security official said, as recovery efforts switched to high gear after days of delay.
Egyptian authorities said Sunday that they have pulled 32 bodies out of the rubble of a Cairo shanty town crushed by massive boulders.
Pirates hijacked a South Korean bulk carrier off Somalia's coast Wednesday but were thwarted in a separate attempt to seize a Greek ship, a maritime official said.
Talks aimed at forming a government of national unity to end Zimbabwe's long political crisis resumed Wednesday amid mounting optimism.
A rebel group turned opposition party that resorted to violence the last time it lost at the polls has accepted defeat in Angola's parliamentary elections.
Power-sharing talks in Zimbabwe entered their second day Tuesday amid reports they might collapse if President Robert Mugabe does not concede to opposition demands.
Professor Wangari Maathai was the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of the Green Belt Foundation, a Kenyan environmental organization.
South African President Thabo Mbeki was holding new talks aimed at resolving Zimbabwe's political crisis Monday, a day after the opposition leader questioned whether Mbeki was the right mediator for the job.
It's very rarely African cities get compared with their flashy European counterparts, yet, when it comes to cost of living Lagos isn't just competing with its neighbors in Europe -- it's beating them.
The death toll from a devastating rockslide that buried a shanty town rose to 47 on Monday, a security official said, as recovery efforts switched to high gear after days of delay.
Egyptian authorities said Sunday that they have pulled 32 bodies out of the rubble of a Cairo shanty town crushed by massive boulders.
Zimbabwe's opposition leader said Sunday that he will not sign a power-sharing deal unless President Robert Mugabe relinquishes some of his power.
The Swazi king, dressed in traditional leopard skins and whisked around in an open-topped BMW, celebrated his 40th birthday and his nation's 40th independence day with lavish glee Saturday -- hosting an extravaganza that contrasted sharply with the biting poverty of his subjects.
Togo's prime minister has resigned after less than one year in office.
Massive boulders crashed down on an impoverished shantytown on the outskirts of the Egyptian capital Saturday, killing at least 24 people, authorities said. Frantic residents dug by hand to try to reach any survivors.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met Friday with Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, who asked for the latest news on the hurricanes plaguing U.S. coasts in recent weeks.
War-ravaged Angola's first election in 16 years is a disaster of poor planning and insufficient infrastructure in the capital, a European Union observer said after visiting several polling stations on Friday.
A team of U.N. peacekeepers lowered by helicopter to a remote plane crash site in eastern Congo on Thursday recovered all 17 bodies from a humanitarian flight that crashed four days ago, a U.N. spokesman said.
A U.N. spokesman says the bodies of all 17 people aboard a humanitarian flight that crashed four days ago in a remote part of Congo have been recovered along with the black box flight data recorder.
More than 1,000 soldiers have withdrawn from a national park that has been on the front lines of fighting in eastern Congo, but rebels still occupy a sector that is home to some of the world's last remaining mountain gorillas, officials said Wednesday.
Two French citizens have been abducted by pirates from a sailboat off the coast of Somalia, the French foreign ministry announced Wednesday.
France's Foreign Ministry says pirates off Somalia have seized a sailboat with two French citizens aboard.
Josh Macabuag is in Jozini, South Africa, where he will be working with the charity Engineers Without Borders (EWB).
Less than a week after lifting a ban on aid agencies, Zimbabwe's government has imposed harsh restrictions on humanitarian groups operating in the country, according to reports Tuesday in the government-controlled media.
South Africa and Venezuela sealed a major oil deal Tuesday during a visit by Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, who touted it as an example of southern nations cooperating in a new strategic alliance.
A humanitarian plane carrying 17 people -- most of them relief workers -- has crashed during a storm in a mountainous region in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations said Tuesday.
A Nigerian militant group said it killed 29 Nigerian soldiers and lost six of its fighters Saturday in "reprisals" on soldiers for the military's killings of citizens. The military rejected the claim and said no soldiers were killed.
Rebels and the army have fought one of their fiercest battles in eastern Congo, exchanging machine-gun and mortar fire all day outside a national park housing some of the world's last mountain gorillas.
Two hijackers who took over a plane flying from Sudan's Darfur region on Tuesday and diverted it to Libya surrendered to authorities Wednesday, Libyan state media said.
The hijackers of a plane that took off from Sudan's Darfur region released its passengers Wednesday after landing hours earlier at a remote desert airfield in southern Libya, a civil aviation official said.
Police in Zimbabwe arrested more opposition lawmakers Wednesday as President Robert Mugabe announced he would include opposition members in his new Cabinet.
A Sudanese plane that was hijacked shortly after taking off from Nyala in the country's Darfur region, presumably by rebels, has landed in Kufra, Libya, said Sudan's ambassador to the United States.
Opposition members booed and heckled Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe as he spoke at the opening of the country's parliament Tuesday, making clear they do not recognize his legitimacy.
The United Nations has sent police and military patrols to a camp in western Sudan after reports fighting there killed civilians, a U.N. spokesman said Tuesday.
Sudanese government forces attacked one of Darfur's largest refugee camps at dawn Monday, killing dozens of civilians, according to rebels and a witness in the camp.
Zimbabwean lawmakers on Monday narrowly voted for Lovemore Moyo as speaker of the parliament -- making him the first opposition lawmaker to hold the position in the country's history.
Two international journalists, along with their Somali colleague and a driver, were kidnapped Saturday, a journalists' organization in Somalia said.
Families were beginning to bury their dead Saturday after three days of heavy fighting in the Somali port town of Kismayo left at least 89 people dead and 207 wounded, according to residents and human rights organizations.
Bodies littered the streets of the third largest city in Somalia on Friday after Islamic fighters took control of the city, residents said.
The North African branch of al Qaeda claimed responsibility Friday for devastating bombings in Algeria that killed up to 60 people this week, in a statement carried by an Arab TV news station.
Heavy shelling struck Somalia's capital city on Thursday, leaving pools of blood around a neighborhood mosque, a devastated market and 11 civilians dead, according to witnesses and a local journalist.
Pirates hijacked three ships off the coast of Somalia on Thursday in the "worst number of attacks" in one day in many years, an international maritime watchdog said.
Two car bombings in eastern Algeria killed at least 11 people Wednesday -- a day after a blast near a military school in a neighboring region claimed 43 lives.
Algerian state radio says twin car bombings at a hotel and military headquarters southeast of Algiers have killed 11 people and wounded 31 others.
Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa died Tuesday at a hospital in Paris nearly two months after suffering a stroke, Zambian and French officials confirmed. He was 59.
A large fire erupted Tuesday in Egypt's parliament, and five people were hospitalized for smoke inhalation, officials said.
An attack on a military school in Algeria killed 43 people and wounded another 38 on Tuesday, the interior ministry said.
Natalie du Toit looked like any other athlete when she walked into the Bird's Nest, carrying the South African flag at the opening ceremonies.
A suicide car bombing targeting an Algerian police academy has killed at least 43 people and injured 38, the Algerian Interior Ministry said Tuesday.
The United Nations' World Food Program on Monday expressed its shock at the "senseless and barbaric" killing of an aid worker in southern Somalia.
A summit of regional leaders in South Africa ended Sunday with no agreement to end Zimbabwe's political crisis.
Zimbabwe's opposition chief wants to be a powerful prime minister, but would leave the presidency -- and command of the military -- to Robert Mugabe to end his country's protracted political crisis.
Ethiopian forces in Somalia have killed at least 46 civilians after a roadside bomb ripped through their military convoy, residents said.
African leaders gathered for a weekend summit in South Africa on Saturday as hundreds protested nearby, angry at the inclusion of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe.
Talks between Zimbabwe's political rivals will resume Friday afternoon and continue on the fringes of this weekend's regional summit in Johannesburg, George Sibotshiwe, the spokesman for Zimbabwe's opposition leader, said Friday.
Libya will pay hundreds of millions of dollars to victims of terrorist attacks involving Americans in an agreement signed and finalized Thursday, the U.S. State Department said.
Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai had his passport briefly confiscated at Harare's airport Thursday, delaying his trip to a regional conference in South Africa, a spokesman for his party said.
Nigeria on Thursday officially handed over to Cameroon full ownership of a peninsula that nearly ignited a border war between the two neighboring African nations.
The military junta that led last week's coup in Mauritania has appointed a former ambassador to the post of prime minister.
Jennifer Staple runs the Unite For Sight program which started in the U.S., but has branched out into working overseas. advertisement
Josh Macabuag is in Jozini, South Africa, where he will be working with the charity Engineers Without Borders (EWB).
Embattled Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe signed a power-sharing deal with the opposition party's breakaway faction, his party said Tuesday, though Mugabe's opponents denied the claim.
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai returned to power-sharing negotiations Monday afternoon with several "sticking points" left to resolve.
It's late Sunday morning inside a cavernous Salvation Army Church in Soweto, South Africa. Services, complete with African and traditional music, have just finished and a catchy drum beat with a distinctly American hip-hop sound is coming from the stage.
After several hours of power-sharing negotiations, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai adjourned the talks early Monday -- apparently without reaching a deal.
Explosives packed into a vehicle detonated outside a police station in northern Algeria, killing eight civilians and wounding eight others, the national radio said Sunday.
A power-sharing deal between Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is just "one or two sticking points" away, sources close to the negotiations said Saturday.
Police on Friday arrested the head of a federal agency charged with developing Nigeria's impoverished southern oil region after allegations that the man spent millions of dollars on a witch doctor in hopes vanquishing a rival.
Kenyans observed a minute of silence Thursday to mark the 10 year anniversary of al Qaeda terrorists bombing the U.S. embassy in the capital of Nairobi, killing more than 200 people and wounding 5,000.
Power-sharing talks between Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai have been postponed until Sunday, a Tsvangirai spokesman said.
An estimated 125,000 Western lowland gorillas are living in a swamp in equatorial Africa, researchers reported Tuesday, double the number of the endangered primates thought to survive worldwide.
Army officers upset with the president's overtures toward Islamic hard-liners staged a coup in Mauritania on Wednesday, overthrowing the first government to be freely elected in this sprawling desert nation in more than 20 years.
France on Wednesday said accusations by Rwanda that French politicians and military officials helped prepare and carry out the 1994 Rwandan genocide are "unacceptable."
Egyptian scientists will carry out DNA tests on two mummified fetuses found in the tomb of King Tutankhamun to determine their link to the young pharaoh, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities said in a statement Wednesday.
Rwanda accused senior French officials Tuesday of involvement in the 1994 genocide that killed 800,000 people, naming late President Francois Mitterrand and former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin among others.
A South African judge said Tuesday he would rule Sept 12 whether to dismiss fraud and corruption charges against president-in-waiting Jacob Zuma.
Lawyers for Jacob Zuma, president of the African National Congress, urged judges Monday to declare Zuma's prosecution on corruption charges unlawful.
A roadside bombing in Somalia's capital killed 21 women who were cleaning rubbish from a southern Mogadishu street on Sunday morning, a hospital official said.
The United Nations Security Council Thursday passed a resolution to extend its peacekeeping mission in Darfur despite U.S. complaints about the resolution.
The United Nations is worried that a booming drugs trade in West Africa could spark new violence and erase some of the stability the region has gained after years of war and strife, an official said Thursday.
The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously Wednesday to end its eight-year peacekeeping mission between Eritrea and Ethiopia.
This time last year, Janet Kimani spent her days at school and her nights fighting with her little brothers over what to watch on the family's flickering TV set.
A Darfur advocacy group complained Wednesday that nations aren't doing enough to help the U.N. peacekeeping mission for the stricken Sudanese region, urging them to provide helicopters and other equipment needed to protect civilians.
A man who terrified a small rural community for months was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for committing a series of rapes and imprisoning a teenage girl and his own young daughter for 15 months in an underground pit.
Zimbabwe will knock 10 zeros off the country's hyper-inflated currency next month, making 10 billion dollars one dollar, the nation's central bank governor said Wednesday.
South African President Thabo Mbeki is heading to Zimbabwe for talks with the country's president and the head of an opposition faction, the South African government announced Wednesday.
Power-sharing talks between Zimbabwe's president and main opposition candidate are continuing and going "very well," South African President Thabo Mbeki said Tuesday after reports that the two sides had deadlocked.
A former dormitory matron at Oprah Winfrey's school for poor South African girls pleaded innocent Tuesday to charges that she indecently assaulted and otherwise abused six teenagers and a fellow matron at the academy.
Royal Dutch Shell said Tuesday that it may not be able to meet its oil supply obligations in Nigeria after an attack on its major pipeline.
Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has been offered a vice presidency position in the country's government, according to a source close to negotiations between the two sides.
A rebel group in Nigeria said it sabotaged two oil pipelines in southern Nigeria on Monday.
Eight foreign oil workers were released unharmed Saturday, hours after being kidnapped at gunpoint by six men in a speedboat, a Nigerian military spokesman said.
Officials say a motorized boat has sunk in Congo, killing at least 47 people. At least 100 people are missing.
Security sources say five crew members have been abducted from a Swedish boat in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger delta region.
President Bush signed an executive order Friday expanding U.S. sanctions against Zimbabwe, the White House said.
The United States is in the process of strengthening sanctions against individual Zimbabweans blamed for deadly electoral violence, the U.S. Embassy in Zimbabwe said Friday.
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