Vodafone has pledged to fight any allegations of irregularities surrounding its £450m purchase of a majority stake in Ghana Telecom, when a report into the deal is published…
Afrika
A nigériai milicista csoport határozatlan idejű tűzszünetet jelentett be
Nigéria legismertebb katonai csoportja vasárnap határozatlan ideig tűzszünetet hirdetett, így felmerült a tartós béke lehetősége az olajban gazdag delta térségben, ahol közel három éve nyomja rá a bélyegét…
Gyerekkatonák Kongóban
A Kongói Demokratikus Köztársaságban az elmúlt hetekben felerősödtek a kormányerők és a hutu lázadók közti összecsapások. Segélyszervezetek által készített jelentések a Kongóban uralkodó jelenlegi állapotot katasztrofálisnak nevezték. A…
Madonna returns to Malawi to launch girls school
Madonna arrived in Malawi Sunday to visit the girls school she is building in the impoverished country where she adopted two children, an official for the star's charity…
Nigeria militant group calls indefinite cease-fire
Nigeria's main militant group declared an indefinite cease-fire Sunday, raising the prospect of peace in the oil-rich Delta region after nearly three years of hostilities have crippled production.…
EGYPT: Abdullah Kahiya, “Cairo is better than Mogadishu, but life is still hard”
Officially, there were 6,108 Somali refugees registered with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in Cairo in September, the third largest group after the Sudanese and Iraqis.
Atrocities haunt DRC child soldiers
The abduction of children by militias which then force them to work as soldiers, porters and sex slaves has been a long-term and widespread problem in the Democratic…
U.S. to help Mali fight Al Qaeda
The United States is stepping up military assistance to Mali, to help the country fight armed militants including al Qaeda which are active in the northern part of…
Guinea to co-operate with UN probe
Guinea's military leadership has pledged to co-operate with a United Nations inquiry into last month's deadly crackdown on opposition demonstrators, a UN official has said.
Angolan airline TAAG says looking for partner
TAAG Angola Airlines said on Wednesday it could soon pick a partner to help it develop its business, after receiving several offers from other airlines interested in linking…