Nouakchott - Mauritania's justice minister says the president has pardoned 35 repented Islamic extremists.
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Burundi army commander ‘missing’
Bujumbura - A senior commander of Burundi's former Hutu rebel movement, the National Liberation Forces (FNL), integrated into the regular army in 2009, has gone missing, an army…
Angola to help G Bissau reform army
Luanda - Angola's army said on Thursday it will send a team to help reform the military of Guinea Bissau, a country with a long history of coups…
Somali pirates free Bulgarian tanker
Sofia - Somali pirates have freed a Bulgarian chemical tanker, the Panega, which had been hijacked in May in the Gulf of Aden with 15 Bulgarian crew members…
Angola rejects increased taxi prices
Luanda - Angola's government rejected a proposal by taxi drivers in Luanda to quadruple fares, after the opposition Unita party warned it would hurt cash-strapped Angolans and could…
Swine flu vaccination October
Malawi will conduct a H1N1 - Swine Flu - vaccination by October 2010. However, only selected groups will receive the life saving jabs.
FA officials plead not guilty
Former Nigerian Football Federation president Sani Lulu Abdullahi and his three associates have pleaded not guilty to charges of corruption at an Abuja Federal High Court.
Kagame Must, Indeed, Show Some Tolerance
Nairobi — Rwanda's President Paul Kagame's denunciation of international critics who are faulting his government's record on matters of freedom, raises more questions than answers.
Internet still too expensive
Nairobi — In recent years, three major undersea fibre optic cables have landed in the country at a huge cost to investors, including the government.The advent of the…
We Must Deal With Al-Shabaab With Great Caution
It is clear that al-Shabaab is a terrorist organisation that needs to be tackled urgently. Before the July 11 Kampala bombings which killed more than 76 people, nobody…