SIRTE: African heads of state yesterday approved a plan to enhance the powers of the African Union and give it a role in coordinating defence policy and trade negotiations, a participant in the talks...

U. students Erin Brown, left, and Stephen Manortey interview a Ghanaian mother in the village of Adankwame last month. Both doctoral candidates in public health, the students participate in the U.'s...

Kenya and the International Criminal Court have agreed on a new deadline to set up a special tribunal to try the ringleaders of post-election violence.Kenyan ministers promised to establish the...

The Pacific Boychoir had logged thousands of miles on its passports, bringing its distinct sound to destinations near and far. And no place is considered too far for this group. The Oakland-based...

T he international peacekeeping mission in Darfur says gunmen have abducted two female aid workers in the western Sudanese region. Noureddine Mezni, a spokesman for the United Nations-African Union...

Cardinal Newman to be beatified African heads of state yesterday approved a plan to enhance the powers of the African Union and give it a role in co-ordinating defence policy and trade negotiations,...

PARIS — Brazil's air force released a recording Friday it said proves it handed over control of Air France Flight 447 to Senegalese authorities before it crashed — but African officials...

It is the third kidnapping of foreign aid staff in the territory in four months. A gang of six men took the women, both working for the Irish aid group GOAL, from their compound in the north Darfur...

PARIS (Reuters) - The operator of a Yemeni aircraft that crashed into the Indian Ocean off the Comoros islands this week has suspended flights from Paris, a spokeswoman for Aeroports de Paris, the...

Lions players who have not played much in the Tests so far get a run-out and show what they can do and, for the Lions, a test victory against the Boks would be massive. After losing seven...

The community centre and clinic put in place by Edzimkulu in Ndawana, South Africa. Four of the five buildings there recently caught on fire and were...

from 2015. The statement was reiterated this week through a spokesman. By the E.U. hasn't said how it will back the project, which would help diversify its natural gas supplies away...

SIRTE, Libya (AP) - After bitter wrangling, Africa's leaders agreed Friday to denounce the International Criminal Court and refuse to extradite Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir, who has been indicted...

Barack Obama’s Africa policy may become more active in a positive sense in the months and years ahead. But on the evidence so far it does seem credible that the African continent itself would have...

Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka address supporters at a past rally at Nairobi's Uhuru Park. Politicians are not keen on national cohesion although Parliament has passed a law to speed it up...

Kampala African leaders who embezzle public resources and steal elections should prepare for stinging reproach when US President Barak Obama visits the continent in week’s time or clean up their...

Omar al-Bashir, March 2008 (Salah Malkawi, Getty Images) SIRTE, Libya (AP) - African leaders have approved a contentious decision to denounce the International Criminal Court and refuse to...

KAMPALA, Jul 3 (IPS) - Africa must embrace agricultural biotechnology or risk being excluded from a major technological revolution that has had increased food production in the Europe, North America...

SIRTE, Libya: African leaders reached a compromise early Friday on the powers of a new regional authority that will coordinate key policies but have little power to act without a mandate from member...

The Associated Press SIRTE, Libya -- After bitter wrangling, Africa's leaders agreed Friday to denounce the International Criminal Court and refuse to extradite Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir, who...

Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir attends the opening of the African Union summit in Sirte, about 600 kilomertres east of Tripoli, July 1, 2009. The AU has decided not to cooperate with a war...

analysis Windhoek — Increased production at existing uranium mines in Namibia and the opening of new ones in response to growing world demand for nuclear fuel will spearhead renewed economic...

MORONI: Comorans began 30 days of national mourning on Friday for the victims of the Yemenia Airbus crash as France threatened to blacklist the airline over safety concerns. "From today, our country...

KHARTOUM: Darfur rebels signed an accord with one of Sudan's main opposition parties in Cairo on Wednesday, agreeing to push for a new transitional government, both sides said on Friday, a move that...

Africa shared top billing with climate change at last year's Group of Eight summit, but the global financial crisis has since undermined developed nations' efforts to meet the financial commitments...

After that, most went into teaching. And only then did some find opportunities and scholarships to pursue degree courses away from East Africa, mostly in Britain. A few opportunities came from India,...

The Zimbabwean government will increase salaries for state workers at the end of July to put them closer to normal levels than the current US$100 monthly allowance, reports said. Executive Secretary...

Windhoek — Gold One International, which has operations in Namibia, announced this week that it has sold its Twin Hills project in North Queensland to North Queensland Metals Limited and...

Students from the Universal American School in Dubai (left to right) Homam Zituni, Nader Sayes, Aya Gawda, Alexander Koch, Fadi Al Garawan, Noufel Al Barwani, Abdo Hamdi, Yassin Al Shehabi, Abdullah...

Sirte: African leaders agreed yesterday to a Libya-driven push to transform the African Union and in theory greatly extend its powers. The change was materialised by morphing the African Union's...

NAIROBI, Jul 4 (IPS) - Concern is mounting in Kenya that the government has leased a big slice of agricultural land to the Qatari foreign investors to produce food for export.Land rights activists...

Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara of Zimbabwe has invited the president of the International Federation Of Football Associations, Sepp Blatter, to visit Zimbabwe ahead of the World Cup of Soccer...

Kampala Ugandan lady golfers breathed a sigh of relief when they learnt that Zambian teen sensation Melissa Nawa had withdrawn from the prestigious Kenya Amateur Strokeplay Championship on the eve...

state oil company , Mohammed Barkindo, said on Friday the agreement "gives this project the official stamp of approval from the three governments, directing...

Sirte, Libya - The African Union has decided not to cooperate with a war crimes warrant against Sudan President Omar al-Beshir and again appealed to the United Nations to delay the case, delegates...

Published Date: July 02, 2009 SIRTE: Iran's hardline president yesterday cancelled his first foreign trip since his re-election was confirmed, leaving African leaders to turn their focus to Somalia...

Leaving little doubt about his disdain for poor governance, he rebuffed the tired song that Africa’s problems were a creation of colonial legacy, saying that the problem is bad leadership. How...

The Inter Milan coach Jose Mourinho caused a major frenzy among Nigerian fans as he arrived in the country for a three-day visit.Mourinho arrived in Lagos on Friday as a guest of the Kwara Football...

-(Dow Jones)- In a bid to tackle the bureaucratic red tape hampering a key energy plan to supply power to budding iron ore and bauxite mining firms, Cameroon...

The International Monetary Fund says economic policy reforms in Zimbabwe have produced a "nascent" economic recovery, but continues to insist the country pay down its debt arrears of more than US$1...

A Zimbabwe government official today appealed to Chinese firms to invest in Zimbabwean mines, asking companies to ignore the country's recent troubles and strike now while the iron is hot. Zimbabwe...

A megaphone atop a truck parked in Accra's main market warns customers that some "unscrupulous persons" are copying Dr. Alhaji Yakubu's medicine to cure all diseases. So make sure you get the...

Militants fighting to overthrow Somalia's U.N.-backed government have condemned talks at the African Union summit in Libya, where African leaders are considering giving the African Union...

Ireland's cricketers got off to the best possible start in their 4 day Intercontinental Cup match against Kenya at Eglington cricket club, writes John Kenny. In the first match in defence of their...

A Darfuri refugee shelters from rain: 'AU member states shall not co-operate... relating to immunities for the arrest and surrender of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to the...

Nairobi — Protestant churches in Kenya have dispatched one of their leaders to the International Criminal Court at The Hague to deliver a one-million signature petition urging investigations of...

Corruption within public institutions continues to plague the nations of Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania, according to a report by a group of regional transparency organizations. Out of the three...

Accra — The Board of Directors of the World Bank has approved a total of US$535 million to support three credit facilities aimed at helping improve economic governance and stabilizing Ghana's...

analysis I Grudgingly Have to Admit the Economic Meltdown is very much with us and that we are now suffering from the secondary round fall-out: Production falling, inventories rising, exports...

African leaders in Libya were on Friday hotly debating a draft resolution by the African Union (AU) which will, if adopted, deal a major blow to the efforts of the International Criminal Court (ICC)...