2009-07-05 10:47
Child abduction for ritual killings is on the rise in the Nigerian city of Kano, say officials and advocacy groups who blame the trend on greed for political power and quick wealth in this northern commercial centre.
2009-07-04 22:29
AU peacekeepers have warned insurgents who have been advancing on Somali government positions to back down or face retaliation.
2009-07-04 16:27
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi had his own ways of conducting meetings, SA President Jacob Zuma has jokingly said.
2009-07-04 14:31
Sudan says its president is free to travel across Africa after heads of state of the AU voted not to co-operate with the ICC'S indictment of him.
2009-07-04 13:00
Ethiopia has criticised the Human Rights Watch over its report that the country's draft anti-terrorism law would violate human rights.
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.
2009-07-04 10:01
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.