ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's Alassane Ouattara has named former rebel military commander General Soumaila Bakayoko…
Africa
Uganda warns of attacks on bombings anniversary
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda police warned on Thursday that Somali militants may be planning to attack…
Zambia’s largest coal mine reopens
Zambian President Rupiah Banda opened the country's largest coal mine Friday, after Singapore's Nava Bharat took over majority…
Quake rattles Mozambique, eastern Zim
Johannesburg - An earthquake measuring 4.5 on the Richter scale rocked the lower Save Valley…
Zuma, Bashir to meet before Sudan split
Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma plans to meet with Sudan's Omar al-Bashir about unrest in the…
Somali rebels lift ban on food aid after drought
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Islamist rebels have lifted a ban on humanitarian agencies supplying food aid to…
Lake Albert boat accident – 30 missing
Kinshasa - Thirty people were missing and one was rescued when a motorised boat sank…
Egyptians smash buildings over policemen release
SUEZ, Egypt (Reuters) - Hundreds of Egyptians hurled stones at government buildings in the city of…
Pirates use Yemen island as fuel base
London - Somali pirates have been using Yemen's remote Horn of Africa island of Socotra…
Gaddafi shelling kills 11 in Misrata
Benghazi - Shelling by forces loyal to Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi killed 11 people and…