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 »
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 »
ARUSHA, Tanzania - A United Nations court has acquitted a Catholic priest charged with genocide, murder and extermination in Rwanda's 1994 genocide.
NAIROBI, Kenya - Pirates off the coast of Somalia have attacked two vessels, and at least one of those has been captured.
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.
By Silvia Aloisi
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.
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.
DADAAB, Kenya - The recruits assembled by moonlight at a watering hole.
JOHANNESBURG - Police say a South African woman has survived after carjackers threw her off a nearly 200-foot (60-meter)-tall bridge.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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