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19 'burnt beyond recognition'
14/05/2008 14:09
Nineteen people have burned to death when a passenger bus hurtled off the road and burst into flames in southern Nigeria's Edo state.
14 burn to death in bus crash
13 die in Nigeria road crash
21 die in Nigerian road crash
Sudan holds 'victory' rally
14/05/2008 14:09
Thousands of people have demonstrated in Khartoum at a government-organised "victory" rally to denounce Darfur rebels who staged a daring attack on the capital.
UN slams rebel attack in Sudan
200 killed in Khartoum attack
Rebel leader vows more attacks
Madonna to build Malawi school
14/05/2008 14:03
US pop diva Madonna
plans to start building a multi-million-dollar girls' school in
Malawi for underprivileged children this year.
Kelly defends Madonna's antics
Malawi father backs Madonna
Oprah school expels top pupil
Sudan appeals to the world
14/05/2008 12:30
Sudan has urged the international community to list the Darfur rebel Justice and Equality Movement as a terrorist group, after its lightning assault on the capital.
$246m bounty for rebel leader
Rebel leader vows more attacks
Sudan arrests opposition leader
Burundi rebels to return home
14/05/2008 12:30
Exiled leaders of Burundi's last active rebel group will return home to implement a long awaited peace deal to end a civil conflict, says a rebel spokesperson.
Rebels to discuss ceasefire
Burundi army kills 50 rebels
10 die in Burundi rebel attack
UN slams rebel attack in Sudan
14/05/2008 10:37
The UN Security Council has strongly condemned this weekend's rebel attack near Khartoum, while warning against any retaliation.
200 killed in Khartoum attack
$246m bounty for rebel leader
Chad shuts border with Sudan
Separatists held in Tanzania
14/05/2008 07:09
Authorities on the Tanzanian island of Pemba have arrested 12 elders who are advocating independence for the island.
'A poor man's African Davos'
Tanzanians protest Bush visit
200 killed in Khartoum attack
13/05/2008 22:20
Sudan's defence minister says that more than 200 people have been killed in a rebel assault on the capital city of Khartoum.
$246m bounty for rebel leader
Rebel leader vows more attacks
AU slams Sudan attack
African urbanisation to surge
13/05/2008 21:16
The African Development Bank says that 12-13 million Africans will move to urban areas in 2008, increasing the challenge of providing food and other services in cities.
Cities to come under pressure
7 million flood China's cities
AI: Prisoners tortured in DRC
13/05/2008 21:16
Suspected rebels have reportedly been tortured in prison in the DRC, Amnesty International claims, urging the government to investigate several deaths blamed on maltreatment.
UN: Free child soldiers now
US ups development aid for DRC
DRC rebels rejoin peace process
Trafficker nabbed in Nigeria
13/05/2008 21:16
Immigration officials in the Nigerian city of Kano say they have arrested a suspected human trafficker with 21 victims bound for Libya.
Immigrants to return to Nigeria
UK cops nab human traffickers
Coup claims in Malawi
13/05/2008 19:43
Malawi has arrested two senior figures from the opposition United Democratic Front on treason charges, officials have said.
Malawi opposition snubs Parly
Muluzi eyes comeback in Malawi
Malawi to prosecute Muluzi
$246m bounty for rebel leader
13/05/2008 14:02
The Sudanese government has doubled its bounty for the country's most wanted Darfur rebel leader whose troops staged a daring raid on the outskirts of Khartoum.
Sudan-Chad tensions
Rebel leader vows more attacks
Sudan arrests opposition leader
Immigrants to return to Nigeria
13/05/2008 12:10
Nigeria is prepared to receive 314 Nigerians detained as illegal immigrants from Libya, says Nigerian Foreign Affairs Minister Ojo Maduekwe.
50 immigrants die off Tunisia
Libya to expel more immigrants
Libya to deport 2 million
Kenya probes sodomy in prisons
13/05/2008 12:10
Kenyan authorities have commissioned a study in a bid to stem widespread homosexual practices in the country's crowded prisons, a top health official has said.
Kenya cops arrest prison chiefs
Death row inmates flee
US seeks genocide suspects
13/05/2008 09:32
The US has renewed a programme offering up to $5m for tips leading to the arrest of any of 13 men suspected of war crimes during the Rwandan genocide.
Bid to seize fugitive's home
Official on trial for genocide
Rwanda pans 'arrogant' warrants
No water for San
12/05/2008 21:32
The Botswana government has banned Central Kalahari Game Reserve San from accessing their own water, but has given permission for a tourist lodge to do so.
San face lifestyle threat
San arrested, tortured
Bushmen 'entitled to live, hunt'
Chad shuts border with Sudan
12/05/2008 21:32
Chad says it is closing its border with Sudan after Khartoum broke off diplomatic ties following a rebel attack which it said was supported by N'Djamena.
Sudan-Chad tensions
Rebel leader vows more attacks
Uganda, DRC to re-mark border
12/05/2008 20:14
Uganda and the DRC have agreed to re-mark their common border, increasingly the subject of a dispute since oil prospecting began on Lake Albert in 2007.
DRC to expel foreign fighters
Uganda probes DRC incursion
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