Africa News

Major corruption trial begins in Mozambique

AP - Wednesday, November 18

MAPUTO, Mozambique - A former Cabinet minister and four other defendants are standing trial in the biggest corruption case to go to court in Mozambique since independence in 1975. More »

  • Judge acquits Rwandan priest of genocide charges

    AP - Wednesday, November 18

    ARUSHA, Tanzania - A United Nations court has acquitted a Catholic priest charged with genocide, murder and extermination in Rwanda's 1994 genocide.

  • Somali pirates hijack ship, 28 North Korean crew

    AP - Wednesday, November 18

    NAIROBI, Kenya - Pirates off the coast of Somalia have attacked two vessels, and at least one of those has been captured.

  • Afghan President Hamid Karzai gestures during a press conference in Kabul on November 3. Somalia and Afghanistan topped a blacklist of the world's most corrupt countries drawn up by the anti-graft watchdog Transparency International.

    Somalia, Afghanistan shamed in graft league table

    AFP - Wednesday, November 18

    BERLIN (AFP) - - Lawless Somalia and war-torn Afghanistan topped a blacklist on Tuesday of the world's most corrupt countries drawn up by the anti-graft watchdog Transparency International.

  • Mugabe says West wants Zimbabwe's farmers to fail

    Reuters - Wednesday, November 18

    By Silvia Aloisi

  • Mozambique opposition claims election fraud

    AP - Wednesday, November 18

    MAPUTO, Mozambique - Mozambique's main opposition party says the ruling party stuffed ballot boxes and expelled opposition monitors from polling stations to help it win the country's Oct. 28 presidential election.

  • New Greenpeace chief has fought apartheid, poverty

    AP - Tuesday, November 17

    JOHANNESBURG - An African has taken over as director of Greenpeace, bringing experience honed as a teenage opponent of white rule in South Africa and a network of powerful contacts to the battle against global warming.

  • AP IMPACT: Kenyans recruited to fight in Somalia

    AP - Tuesday, November 17

    DADAAB, Kenya - The recruits assembled by moonlight at a watering hole.

  • SAfrican woman survives after thrown from bridge

    AP - Tuesday, November 17

    JOHANNESBURG - Police say a South African woman has survived after carjackers threw her off a nearly 200-foot (60-meter)-tall bridge.

  • Spain moves to win hostage sailors' freedom

    AP - Tuesday, November 17

    MADRID - Spain moved Monday to win the release of 36 fishermen held hostage on a Spanish trawler off Somalia by indicting two captured pirates in a fast-track procedure so they can be returned to Somalia as demanded by the hijackers.

  • Egypt to apply for first Arabic domain name

    AP - Monday, November 16

    SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt - Egypt will apply for the first Internet domain written in Arabic, its information technology minister said Sunday at a conference grouping Yahoo's co-founder and others to discuss boosting online access in emerging nations.

  • Nigeria militants start peace talks with president

    AP - Monday, November 16

    ABUJA, Nigeria - Nigeria's main militant group in the oil-rich Delta region said Sunday that it had started formal peace talks with the country's president for the first time since it declared an indefinite cease-fire last month.

  • Jet crashes during South Africa air show

    Reuters - Sunday, November 15

    CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - A civilian pilot was killed when his fighter jet crashed shortly before he was to participate in an air show in South Africa Saturday, an air force official said.

  • File picture shows Ethiopian soldiers. Ethiopian rebels have launched a wide offensive in the southeastern Somali ethnic Ogaden region and recaptured seven towns from government forces, they claimed Saturday in a statement.

    Ethiopia rebels claim massive counter-offensive

    AFP - Saturday, November 14

    ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - - Ethiopian rebels have launched a wide offensive in the southeastern Somali ethnic Ogaden region and recaptured seven towns from government forces, they claimed Saturday in a statement.

  • U.N.'s Ban to fast in solidarity with world's hungry

    Reuters - Saturday, November 14

    UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will join a 24-hour fast called by the U.N. food chief to show solidarity with the world's 1 billion hungry ahead of a food security summit next week, a spokeswoman said on Friday.

  • Activist: Rights, liberties waning in Ethiopia

    AP - Saturday, November 14

    JOHANNESBURG - An Ethiopian human rights activist who was jailed for 2 1/2 years said Friday that his country is less free today than it was during its disputed 2005 election.

  • France captures 12 suspected Somali pirates

    Reuters - Saturday, November 14

    PARIS (Reuters) - The French navy captured 12 suspected pirates off the coasts of Somalia and the Seychelles Thursday, an army spokesman said Friday, as part of Europe's anti-piracy mission in the area.

  • New election urged for Zimbabwe

    Reuters - Saturday, November 14

    GABORONE (Reuters) - Botswana's president accused Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe Friday of failing to honour a power-sharing deal with his foes and called for new elections to resolve the political deadlock.

  • UN children's agency warns of south Sudan famine

    AP - Friday, November 13

    CAIRO - The deputy head of the U.N. children's agency said Thursday that a famine is looming in southern Sudan because of scarce rainfall and inadequate foreign funds for the region.

  • SAfrica business dispute sets off racism charges

    AP - Friday, November 13

    JOHANNESBURG - A struggle over how to manage South Africa's state-owned power company has opened debates on racism in the boardroom and political meddling in a country where politics and race remain a volatile mix.

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