An open war of words has broken down between director 'James Cameroon' and 'Piranha 3-D' producer 'Mark...

Striking South African state workers staged a protest march on Thursday after rejecting a revised wage offer aimed at ending their three-week strike that has the government and the labour movement at...

(Getty Images/file) MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) — Angry protesters burned tires on the streets of Mozambique's capital and a TV station said at least one person was killed Thursday, a day after at...

(Inergize Digital) NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A former top Southern Sudan official says the south's parliament may vote to secede from the Khartoum-based north if an independence referendum scheduled...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Striking South African state workers staged a protest march on Thursday after rejecting a revised wage offer aimed at ending their three-week strike that has the government...

Three people were found dead on Thursday in Mozambique after bloody protests over food and fuel, bringing the death toll to seven, the Red Cross said."Today we collected three bodies of people who...

GENEVA — A report detailing hundreds of gruesome attacks against civilians in Congo over a 10-year period won't be released until October, the U.N.'s top human rights official said Thursday,...

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JOHANNESBURG -- South Africa's government says it is withdrawing the special status granted to illegal Zimbabwean immigrants who fled their country's economic meltdown and...

By TOM MALITIASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER NAIROBI, Kenya -- Southern Sudan's parliament may vote to secede from the Khartoum-based north if an independence reference scheduled for January is delayed, a...

Tullow announced the acquisition of a 50% operated interest in six adjacent licenses covering the East African Rift Basins of Kenya and Ethiopia, an area of 97,000 sq km. Tullow has signed...

In the last two days, the minister has hosted envoys from the Africa and Asia Groups as it seeks support against international condemnation for hosting President...

Anglo-Irish energy firm Tullow Oil said Thursday that it will buy a 50-percent stake in six exploration licences in Kenya and Ethiopia, expanding its reach in east...

The sentencing in absentia of Madagascar's former president Marc Ravalomanana to hard labour for life will not help resolve problems in Madagascar, International Relations and Cooperation Minister ...

Turkey will command a multinational task force to fight piracy and carry out surveillance in the shipping lanes close to Somalia from Sept. 1 to Dec. 1, 2010, the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs...

DUBAI: The Dubai Inter-national Financial Centre (DIFC) is reaching out to companies from emerging markets including Africa and is considering cost cuts as it seeks to become the Gulf region's main...

Millions of free malaria drugs are sent to Africa every year by international donors. New research is now providing evidence for what health workers have long suspected: some of the donated...

09.02.2010 7:00am EDT I want to broaden the focus this week from the usual legal analysis of the LGBT movement in the U.S., and ask this question: What’s really at stake in the pending...

Gunmen in eastern Congo fired Wednesday on a private plane carrying international aid workers who escaped into the forest and were later rescued, aid workers from the International Medical Corps told...

Nigeria could become the fifth most populous country in the world, teetering on the edge of a "demographic disaster" unless its stagnant economy rapidly expands to support its teeming youth...

Dubai's financial centre the DIFC is reaching out to companies from emerging markets including Africa and is considering cost cuts as it seeks to become the Gulf region's main business hub, its chief...

Ashley Judd: Humanitarian travelers should check motives, learn local context Judd: Valuable minerals in electronics fuel mass rape in Democratic Republic of Congo "Until we disrupt how...

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa will stop at the end of the year a special deal granted to thousands of Zimbabweans, who were allowed to enter Africa's largest economy without documents, a cabinet...

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan needs structural reforms to broaden its economy and encourage private business to reduce a 46 percent poverty rate and qualify for relief on its $35 billion external debt,...

Mozambique 's capital, Maputo, as deadly riots sparked by soaring bread prices entered a second day.Yesterday, police and hospital sources said at least six people were killed, including two...

Libya , with President Nasser's Egypt the stablest country in the Arab world, had finally decided to shake off the paternalist rule of aged King Idris – who happily was not in the country at the...

Miners work the sandstone burrows of a sapphire pit in Ilakaka, which enjoyed a 'gold rush' boom when the first gems were found in 1998. Photograph: Pascal Maitre/National...

Sudan's parliament may vote to secede from the Khartoum-based north if an independence reference scheduled for January is delayed, a former top Southern Sudan official said Thursday. The oil-rich...

Monrovia — Monrovia, Liberia - President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has signed a proclamation extending by fifteen (15) days the Fifth Regular Session of the 52nd National Legislature of the...

Three Russian aircrew members (two pilots and one navigator) who were abducted on 29 August 2010 in Nyala, South Darfur, were today safely released. The situation in Kalma internally displaced...

Reporters Without Borders today voiced its deep distress at the murder yesterday of Abdullahi Omar Gedi, aged 25, a journalist on Radio Daljir in Galkayo, capital of the semi-autonomous Puntland...

column Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan's warning last week that we need to achieve a sustained 7% growth rate for the next 20 to 30 years if we are to meet the social and economic needs of this...

Kigali — The government's procurement agency, Rwanda Public Procurement Authority (RPPA) has suspended 33 companies from bidding for public tenders for periods ranging from one year to three...

editorial Kigali — The new initiative by government to have all civil servants in public institutions take oath should not be taken lightly. This is in line with the 2002 law on the general...

press release HS ADRIAS is a type standard multiple role frigate that has been in the service of the Hellenic Navy since March 1994. She has a displacement of 3,630 tons and a crew of 192. EU...

Monrovia — The Chairman of Golden Agri-Resources Limited, the lead investor of Golden VerOleum (Liberia) Limited, arrives in Liberia Thursday for a one-day visit. Mr. Franky O. Widjaja is...

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly has invited private involvement in the modernisation, renovation, and rehabilitation of eight markets in the metropolis, namely the Public Works Department (PWD),...

THE 10th Ongwediva Annual Trade Fair (OATF) kicked off on Friday on a high note, with more than 550 confirmed exhibitors clamouring to show off their business...

Booming business out of aquaculture is happening elsewhere in the world, compared to Africa where the sector is still at its infancy. But there is a wind of change blowing on the continent as African...

"It is sad that people used the right to demonstrate peacefully to turn it into violent protests," he said late Wednesday. "The government is aware of the poverty of the people. Combating poverty...

is included in the list of banned airlines as a consequence of a series of very poor results from inspections involving not only their aircraft but also facilities used by the airline in the EU,"...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - A former top Southern Sudan official says the south's parliament may vote to secede from the Khartoum-based north if an independence referendum scheduled for January is delayed....

MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) - Sporadic gunfire could be heard in Mozambique's capital Thursday, the morning after at least four people died in clashes between police and rioters angered by high prices....