2009-07-09 21:05
Angola's restrictive visa policy is slowing the flow of development aid to the country still rebuilding from decades of civil war, says a French diplomat.
2009-07-09 20:15
More than 1 000 from Africa and elsewhere have gathered in northern Mali for the annual "Summit of the Poor," to match this year's G8 meeting in Italy.
2009-07-09 22:11
Former UN chief Kofi Annan handed the International Criminal Court the names of key suspects in Kenya's post-poll violence which he helped end last year, says an African Union panel.
2009-07-09 19:05
US President Barack Obama during his 24-hour visit to Ghana will, along with his family, tour one of the continent's former largest slave trading posts.
2009-07-09 14:22
A Rwandan national accused of taking part in the 1994 genocide will be extradited from Sweden to Rwanda to face trial, the Swedish government says.
2009-07-09 13:22
Posters of Barack Obama have festooned the streets of Ghana's capital ahead of the first visit to sub-Saharan Africa by the first black US president.
2009-07-09 12:33
An official from Tanzania says the French navy has arrived to assist with the search for remains of a plane that crashed into the Indian Ocean with 153 people aboard.
2009-07-09 10:31
Two aid workers kidnapped in Sudan's Darfur region could be released "shortly", following reports that they are in good health, an official has said.
2009-07-09 09:24
Britain could pay for a new prison in Nigeria to house hundreds of Nigerian criminals convicted on British soil, media reports say.
2009-07-09 10:31
Burundi's opposition leaders have accused a government minister of trying to create a one-party state, saying they have been banned from holding rallies.
2009-07-09 11:33
The UN is launching a multi-agency program to fight organised crime across west Africa amid reports that the region has become a major transit hub for cocaine.