Guinea-Bissau's Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Junior was briefly detained on Thursday by military officers amid renewed fears of coup in the West African country. Instability including the 1998-1999…
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Ben Stiller has contracted Lyme disease
During a humanitarian trip to Mozambique, the American actor has been bitten by a tick. Seeing his knee swelling and pain increase, Ben Stiller was thinking of a…
Africa bids to host mega radio telescope
Africa stands a good chance of beating Australia in a race to host the world's most powerful radio telescope able to peer back billions of years in time,…
Sierra Leone doctors and nurses get massive pay rise
Health workers in Sierra Leone say they will end their 10-day strike, after the president agreed in a late-night deal to increase their pay six-fold.
U.S. cautions against misuse of refugee camp for combatant recruitment base
The United States government said Tuesday that no refugee camp should be used as recruitment base for combatants in the ongoing civil war in neighboring Somalia.
Zimbabwe working to reform media laws
Zimbabwe's Finance Minister Tendai Biti on Saturday said Zimbabwe was working to reform its harsh media laws, with work on a new constitution expected to get under way…
Nigeria Asks U.S. to Revisit Terror Blacklist
Acting President Goodluck Jonathan has urged President Barack Obama to revisit the classification of Nigeria by the United States as a "country of interest" on the terror list…
Somalis in rare march against al-Shabab militants
Hundreds of Somalis have marched through the streets of Mogadishu, protesting against al-Shabab militants. The protesters, mostly women and children and wearing traditional white clothes, chanted slogans denouncing…
Libya, Swiss row softens
Switzerland has said it will lift a travel ban on senior Libyan officials to ease tensions in a dispute that has drawn in much of Europe.
DR Congo lauds Rwandese decision to send Nkunda to martial court
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) hails the recent decision by the Rwandese Supreme Court to send a former Tutsi rebel leader in the central African country…