Tel Aviv, May 17 : A mathematician from the Tel Aviv University has claimed that the human race was genetically divided into two separate groups within Africa for as much as 100,000 years, which is roughly half of its...

Allegations that an assassination plot had been hatched against Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Saturday, leading his Movement for Democratic Change to postpone his return to the...

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) -- The leader of Sudan's main opposition party said Saturday that a recent attack on the capital by Darfur rebels may encourage other disgruntled Sudanese to rise up against the...

The boss of Virgin Atlantic was in Kenya yesterday to launch a campaign encouraging Britons to return to the east African country after months of political uncertainty and violence.More than a...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is voicing deep concern about the escalating violence inside eastern Chad, where two gendarmes guarding a refugee camp were shot dead earlier...

NAIROBI, Kenya - Somali pirates hijacked a Jordanian ship Saturday in the latest in a string of attacks off the lawless Somali coast, the head of a seafarer's association said.Andrew Mwangura of the...

Ijegun-Ikotun, the scene of Thursday's oil pipeline fire disaster that claimed many lives, has been sealed off, even as residents of the village have deserted the area for fear of their...

President Mugabe says Zanu-PF should gear itself for the presidential run-off and work hard for victory to repair the damage it suffered in the March 29 elections while deploring violence that has...

Some of the issues likely to generate interest during the constitution review include the issue of new states and local government creation, as well as the push by oil producing committees to amend...

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Islamic militants in Somalia have seized a major agricultural center, causing hundreds of refugees to flee. That's according to a human rights leader in the town. He says...

The Lagos State Chairman of the Nigeria Red Cross Society, Deacon Timothy Oladele, confirmed the discovery of a three-month -old baby yesterday morning beside the excavator which broke the under...

+ ] DAKAR (Reuters) - The African Union should oversee the second round of a presidential election in Zimbabwe on June 27 to prevent its result being called in to question, Senegalese President...

Deadly Egyptian rivals Al Ahly and Zamalek have been drawn together in the group phase of the African Champions League. The draw was made in Yaounde, Cameroon, on Saturday. Al Ahly and Zamalek...

However, the Canal de Moçambique article also said the arms were flown to Harare in an Ilyushin Il-76 belonging to Avient Aviation, a freight charter airline based in Zimbabwe but registered...

After spending more than a month outside Zimbabwe since then trying to drum up international support, Tsvangirai had been planning to return to Harare on Saturday and resume his campaign to oust...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has provided aid to more than 40,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Somalia who live in precarious conditions in dozens of makeshift...

The fate of the world's oldest customs union, the Southern African Customs Union (SACU), is hanging in the balance as a result of the economic partnership agreements that most SACU countries have...

'We only received the OK from the Court to hold the rally at 4pm yesterday This has given us very little time to prepare and advertise. Tsvangirai will be there and will launch his run off campaign....

Cotton Growers Association, made up of members from the Northern, Upper East and West Regions, appealed to government to subsidise farming inputs to retain them in the cultivation of the crop to save...

May 17, 2008, 15:45 The defence department has denied reports that President Thabo Mbeki ordered the SAS Drakensberg to refuel a Chinese ship bearing arms for Zimbabwe. Deputy Defence minister...

Monrovia - Liberia's former interim president Gyude Bryant, who is already facing corruption charges, was accused on Saturday of embezzling funds from the national oil company. Bryant and four...

Tripoli - The Libyan authorities have broken up a drug network and seized hashish, heroin and cocaine as well as alcohol, the interior ministry said in a statement on Saturday. "A group of people...

The Security Council today called on Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to continue contingency plans to deploy a possible United Nations peacekeeping operation in strife-torn Somalia and to relocate its...

Assassination threats have derailed plans by Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai to return home to campaign for the presidential runoff vote, a party official said today.Movement for...

Ghana Telecom (GT) would soon embark on a programme to extend its services to the northern parts of the Western Region (W/R) as a means to open up the area to enhance the socio-economic activities of...

DAGAARI, Somalia — The global food crisis has arrived at Safia Ali’s hut. She cannot afford rice or wheat or powdered milk anymore. At the same time, a drought has...

Johannesburg - At least one person was reported dead amidst a series of xenophobic attacks around the South African city of Johannesburg, reports said. According to the Sapa news agency, at least one...

The leadership of the Northern Development Forum (NDF) has added its voice to the clarion call for parties in the Bawku conflict to halt further...

In development discourse, equitable education has emerged as the most potent factor for empowering people and reducing poverty. Even in the most advanced countries, equitable education is still...

Mangoma, the outgoing NBA chairman, said the rapidly deteriorating economic environment in Zimbabwe has come to a point where it has made it "impossible" or "extremely...

The presidential candidate of the Convention Peoples Party, Dr. Paa Kwesi Nduom says Ghana's next president must be an issue-driven president with a sense of urgency to implement programmes and not...

+ ] ALGIERS (Reuters) - Families of Algerian kidnap victims paid nearly $19 million in ransom in 2007 to abductors who included Islamist rebels and criminal gangs, a government minister said in...

Somalia – and much of the volatile Horn of Africa – was about the last place on earth that needed a food crisis. Even before commodity prices started shooting up around the globe, civil...

Rochdale v Darlington text commentary 1247: Our man Chris "Bevo" Bevan is at Wembley today. Here's his first missive: "It's difficult to tell the two sets of fans apart. They're all wearing blue and...

Tributes have been paid to a British charity worker who died following a road accident in west Africa. Helen O'Connell was in a taxi with her boyfriend Kentaro Taguchi, 27, in Benin when the...

Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will not return home today as expected to prepare for the second round of elections, it has been...

Johannesburg - Weapons ordered from China for the Zimbabwe government arrived in Harare despite an international boycott, media reports said Saturday. According to South Africa's SAPA news agency,...

The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor, Gideon Gono, raised a pertinent question last week on the issue of an electoral run-off following the announcement of the presidential election...

DWTL sources said the strike by workers took place on Monday and was called off on Wednesday after management gave in to workers' demands after it had become evident that output was taking a severe...

and Tunisia. The event was attended by prominent political, business and economic figures from both countries, including H.E. Mohammed Al-Sedeeri, Tunisian Ambassador in the UAE, and H.E. Mohammed...

Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt - US President George W Bush arrived in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Saturday for talks with President Hosni Mubarak and Palestinian leaders. Bush is...

THE National Bakers Association (NBA) this week initiated fresh talks for a review of the price of bread by the National Incomes and Pricing Commission (NIPC), as prices soared across the board after...

In the 12-months to December 2007, the CFX Properties posted a net profit of $4,1 trillion in historic terms and $3,1 trillion in inflation adjusted terms mainly due to the fair value adjustment of...

Seven weeks after the presidential election, Zimbabwe finally set a runoff date Friday, saying longtime President Robert Mugabe and rival Morgan Tsvangirai will face off in a June 27 ballot that the...

Yes, it is Forjindam who first mooted the idea of constitutional amendment. He was the one whose language against the opposition has been very insolent and uncouth. Unfortunately, it is Forjindam who...

Morgan Tsvangirai at the Liberal International Congress in Belfast today. Photograph: Paul Faith/PA Zimbabwe has called a much delayed runoff presidential election for June 27 amid escalating...

The Financial Gazette understands that ZABG had already made proposals to the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) for Mupamhadzi to take over from Hodges but was still waiting for the central bank's...

WALKING past Harare's busy Roadport cross-border bus terminus, one cannot miss the fact that a huge number of people are leaving Zimbabwe for neighbouring countries, particularly South...

Sources indicated that much of the budget for the entire year had been spent, with the recently held harmonised elections gobbling up a significant...

ZIMBABWE'S tobacco farmers are having cash problems. They have so much money in their pockets, but cannot buy what they need because it is in the form of...