2009-07-04 08:25
Two female aid workers from Ireland and Uganda have been kidnapped by armed men in Sudan's volatile Darfur region, officials say.
2009-07-03 22:04
Extremist rebels in Somalia say they will continue to attack African Union peacekeepers in an area where bloody insurgency is intensifying.
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Swiss national Werner Greitner, kidnapped by al-Qaeda's north African branch in January, is suffering a lot and hardly eating, an official says.
2009-07-03 13:56
Darfur rebels have signed an accord with one of Sudan's main opposition parties in Cairo on agreement to push for a new transitional government.
2009-07-03 08:16
African leaders have reached a compromise on the powers of an AU Authority that will co-ordinate key policies, but have little power to act without a mandate from member states.
2009-07-03 09:19
African heads of state have approved a plan to enhance the powers of the AU and to give it a role in co-ordinating defence policy and trade negotiations.
2009-07-03 09:19
Gabon's government has submitted plans for a timetable, ahead of presidential elections, to the political parties in the country, officials have said.
2009-07-02 22:07
Gabon's government has submitted plans for a timetable ahead of presidential elections to the political parties in the country, officials say.
2009-07-02 20:12
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has briefly walked out of the African Union summit because of dissent over his plan to create a continental government.
2009-07-02 13:59
The presidential election in Guinea-Bissau will go to a second round after the just ended vote failed to produce a clear winner, the electoral commission says.
2009-07-02 13:59
Rwandan Hutu rebels have burnt down about 130 village homes in eastern D RCongo, an army officer says, although a politician has shifted the blame on the army.