Sat, 04 Oct 2008 21:50:36 GMT
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and new Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai fail to agree on a unity cabinet.Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:01:01 GMT
Ethiopia allows eight Kenyan men jailed as terror suspects to return to their homes after more than a year in detention.Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:47:37 GMT
Russia's foreign minister calls for joint international action to halt Somali pirate attacks off the Horn of Africa.Sat, 04 Oct 2008 10:48:21 GMT
A British man taken captive in Nigeria has been released unharmed, the Foreign Office has confirmed.Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:51:26 GMT
Kenya protests to the US and EU after diplomats said the electoral commissioner should go.Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:34:43 GMT
Nigeria's military has been sent to help segregate a town after violent clashes and impose a curfew, officials say.Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:07:35 GMT
Charity MSF criticises the South African authorities for stopping aid to those displaced in May's xenophobic attacks.Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:30:41 GMT
South African ex-President Thabo Mbeki agrees to continue to mediate in Zimbabwe's crisis.Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:13:43 GMT
A firm from South Africa, recently plagued by power cuts, unveils Africa's first locally developed electric car.Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:21:07 GMT
Oliveria Goncalves resigns as Angola coach after successive poor showings in the 2010 World Cup qualifiers.Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:14:11 GMT
Mamadou Niang and Souleymane Diawara are left out of next week's World Cup qualifier against Gambia.Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:20:58 GMT
Three South African businessmen linked with a possible £300m takeover of Newcastle deny being interested in the club.Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:55:27 GMT
From cash queues to flash floods in Africa's weekSat, 04 Oct 2008 11:21:42 GMT
Will prudence help Ethiopia face the credit crisis?Sat, 04 Oct 2008 10:53:02 GMT
Follow the fortunes of Africa's big predatorsThu, 02 Oct 2008 22:32:35 GMT
Can Africa weather the global financial storm?Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:19:01 GMT
"Brainwashed" by French rule in SenegalWed, 01 Oct 2008 23:14:48 GMT
Zimbabweans' dream is slowly slipping awayFri, 03 Oct 2008 13:22:34 GMT
International aid groups say they are seriously concerned by the threat to ban an Angolan rights organisation.Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:01:12 GMT
UK cabinet paper from 1950s - revealed for the first time - document deep pessimism over Ghana's independence.
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