Provides the latest RSS feeds for North Africa News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Africa Leader.com http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/10/id/82d02f9fd73afff4/ en-us Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:20:36 -0400 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:20:36 -0400 30 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 g... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25857693/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:17:49 -0400 Salt Lake Tribune http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25857693/ 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 tribun... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25857691/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:13:04 -0400 BBC http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25857691/ 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 t... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25855462/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:29:48 -0400 Sky News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25855462/ 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 from http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25855487/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:45:31 -0400 Morning Star http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25855487/ 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 ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25853466/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:33:34 -0400 VOA http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25853466/ 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 E... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25853465/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:33:33 -0400 VOA http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25853465/ 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 w... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25853478/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:17:56 -0400 The Daily Star http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25853478/ 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 cr... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25853467/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:52:38 -0400 Canada.com http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25853467/ 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 sai... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25853606/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:57:17 -0400 IOL http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25853606/ state oil company , Mohammed Barkindo, said on Friday the agreement "gives this project the official stamp of approval from the three governments, directing the http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25853474/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:49:11 -0400 Yahoo!7 News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25853474/ 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 Ac... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25853463/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:04:04 -0400 BBC http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25853463/ -(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 President http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25852997/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:18:42 -0400 Morning Star http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25852997/ A U.S.-based human rights group says arbitrary arrests and vigilantism in Guinea has raised concerns about the human rights situation in the West African nation. Corinne Dufka, a senior West Africa ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25851359/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:09:20 -0400 VOA http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25851359/ 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 original... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25851358/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:09:20 -0400 VOA http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25851358/ Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe met Thursday on the sidelines of the African Union summit in Libya with the top U.S. diplomat for Africa, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Cars... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25851362/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:09:17 -0400 VOA http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25851362/ 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 peacekeepin... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25851360/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:09:19 -0400 VOA http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25851360/ 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 bi... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25851357/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:09:22 -0400 VOA http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25851357/ By Christian Lowe Sirte, Libya - African leaders will consider a resolution on Friday to give African Union peacekeepers in Somalia a mandate to do more than just defend themselves from attacks by ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25851481/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:32:48 -0400 IOL http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25851481/ Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) [official website] urged Thursday that several one-time military and political leaders be prosecuted in a special Liberian court for war crimes. Those named i... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25851377/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:31:40 -0400 Jurist http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25851377/ 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) t... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25850970/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:25:38 -0400 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25850970/ 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 nations,... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25851356/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:09:23 -0400 VOA http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25851356/ A two-day People's Constitutional Convention aimed at getting civil society organizations together to define and adopt fundamental principles on Zimbabwe's new Constitution kicked off in Harare Friday... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25851361/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:09:18 -0400 VOA http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25851361/ Despite being majority Muslim, Senegal is a known for its religious tolerance. Muslims, Christians, Jews and adherents to traditional African beliefs came together in Dakar to discuss what tensions re... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25851363/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:09:17 -0400 VOA http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25851363/ NEW DELHI: Leading engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) company Punj Lloyd has announced that it had bagged three new major contracts valued at Rs. 1,873.18 crore ($387.08 million) in Libya... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25851373/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:56:02 -0400 The Hindu http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25851373/ A human rights group says civilians in eastern and northern Democratic Republic of Congo are under increasing attack from all sides of the conflicts raging there between Congolese and rebel forces. ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25851355/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:09:24 -0400 VOA http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25851355/ Africa's leaders meeting in Libya have taken a step toward creation of a continental authority that would have enhanced powers to deal with matters of mutual interest. But a compromise reached after d... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25851354/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:09:24 -0400 VOA http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25851354/ 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 ec... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25850971/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:25:37 -0400 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25850971/ Tamale — A two-day sub-regional durbar, to deliberate on the issues of trade between Ghana and Burkina Faso, has been held at Navrongo in the Kassena-Nankana District of the Upper East Region. ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25851387/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:25:37 -0400 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25851387/ That image has now taken a hit. In its final report, released yesterday, Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), a body modeled on South Africa's historic truth commission, says Johnson S... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25851369/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:21:07 -0400 Time http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25851369/ Barack Obama US President Barack Obama's choice of Ghana for his first official trip to Africa next week has triggered a bout of self-questioning in Nigeria and Kenya, where many see his itinerary... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25849042/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:51:17 -0400 One News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25849042/ The Comoros has begun 30 days of mourning for those who died in a plane crash in the Indian Ocean, President Ahmed Abdullah Sambi has announced.He told state television that Comoran authorities needed... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25849058/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:43:40 -0400 BBC http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25849058/ Not everybody liked the vuvuzela trumpets The final whistle has been blown at the Confederations Cup in South Africa - Brazil walked off with the cup after beating the USA and Spain beat South Afric... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25848550/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:43:38 -0400 BBC http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25848550/ Bobigny, France - Algerian singer Cheb Mami was sentenced on Friday to five years in a French prison after being found guilty of forcing an attempted abortion on his former lover. The 42-year-old s... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25849197/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:36:46 -0400 IOL http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25849197/ Nigeria Commercial Banking Report Q2 2009 " report to their offering. The Nigeria Commercial Banking Report provides independent forecasts and competitive intelligence on Nigeria's commercial banking ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25848676/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:33:17 -0400 Earth Times http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25848676/ Concluding marathon talks held late into the night, African leaders agreed yesterday to a Libyan-driven push to transform the African Union and in theory greatly extend its powers.The change was mater... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25849069/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:21:34 -0400 Daily Star http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25849069/ About 200 Michael Jackson fans from South Africa have performed his famous dance moves in tribute to the pop icon, who died last week.Crowds watched them do his moonwalk in Johannesburg's Nelson Mande... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25849059/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:43:39 -0400 BBC http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25849059/ Jul 3, 2009 - 05:40 - WAM JUBA, July 3rd, 2009: A delegation of the UAE Red Crescent Authority (RCA) and officials of the University Hospital of Juba, Southern Sudan, discusses procedures to provide u... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25846196/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:28:19 -0400 WAM http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25846196/ SIRTE, Libya -- The African Union will not cooperate with the International Criminal Court over its indictment of Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, according to a draft of an AU resolution.The... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25846594/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:13:10 -0400 National Post http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25846594/ Nairobi/Abuja - Nigeria, Niger and Algeria on Friday signed an agreement to build a pipeline that will bring Nigerian gas across the Sahara desert to the European markets. Europe is keen to diversify ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25846531/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:25:41 -0400 Earth Times http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25846531/ MOSCOW [MENL] -- At least two Middle East navies have been examining theprospect of procuring submarines from Russia. Russian industry sources said Algeria and Iran were examiningRussian-origin submar... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25846632/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:42:24 -0400 Middle East Newsline http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25846632/ U.S. President Barack Obama is preparing for another round of international travel. He leaves Washington Sunday evening for a Moscow summit on arms control, followed by the annual Group of Eight Mee... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25846625/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:41:33 -0400 VOA http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25846625/ The body of a man has been found in the undercarriage of an aircraft at Gatwick Airport in West Sussex.Engineers discovered the body during a routine safety inspection after the Ghana Airlines flight ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25846620/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:10:42 -0400 BBC http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25846620/ cutting across Kenya as fighting in Somalia escalates between the fragile government and the murderous al-Shabaab militia group. Many of us fear that the war could spill over into our country with cat... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25846466/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:33:22 -0400 Daily Nation http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25846466/ The government troops launched an offensive to dislodge the Shebab and other hardline fighters from positions in Mogadishu's Karan district which they had seized in recent battles. "I have seen the ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25846621/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:24:58 -0400 Morning Star http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25846621/ Mogadishu — Duho Artan, a Somali mother, one of the parents whose children are detained in Libyan jails has Friday requested from the both Libya and Somali government to release their children a... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25846785/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:21:50 -0400 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25846785/ The opposition in Niger has condemned President Mamadou Tandja's decision to appoint a new constitutional court days after he dissolved the previous one.Activists from unions, rights groups and opposi... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25844111/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:39:52 -0400 BBC http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25844111/ UK property tycoon Nicholas van Hoogstraten has been cleared of illegal currency dealing and possession of pornography by a Zimbabwe court.The case was thrown out this week at the end of the prosecuti... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25844112/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:39:51 -0400 BBC http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25844112/ Cairo - A woman stabbed to death in a German court was an Egyptian who had sued her attacker after he insulted her for wearing the Islamic headscarf, Egyptian newspapers reported on Friday. Marwa a... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25844287/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:32:38 -0400 IOL http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25844287/ : Fitch Ratings has today affirmed the Federal Republic of Nigeria's Long term foreign and local currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDR) at 'BB-' and BB' respectively. The Outlook is Stable. At the s... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25843785/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:55:08 -0400 Morning Star http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25843785/ ABUJA (NIGERIA): Tata Motors, India's largest auto maker, will introduce its small car Nano--considered the world's cheapest--in Nigeria within next 18 months, ahead of its planned launch in Europe... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25841736/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:21:05 -0400 Times of India http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25841736/ An Islamist commander in Somalia has told the BBC there has been an influx of fighters from overseas joining their battle against the interim government.The al-Shabab militant leader, who spoke on con... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25841726/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:13:48 -0400 BBC http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25841726/ Liberians and perhaps the rest of the world are still trying to come to grip with the political impact of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) final report recommendations. http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25839089/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:20:08 -0400 VOA http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25839089/ African Union (AU) members have agreed a plan to give its executive arm enhanced powers to co-ordinate common-interest policies, officials say.But the African Authority will not be able to act interna... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25839087/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:49:18 -0400 BBC http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25839087/ Committed to a democratic government that involves civil society, Ghana has become "one of the better-performing developing countries in Africa," said the top U.S. aid official in the country. There ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25839085/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:34:01 -0400 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25839085/ Seven Gambian journalists jailed last month will appear in a high court in the capital Banjul today, four days earlier than scheduled, to face charges of sedition and publishing with seditious intent. http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25836534/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:04:59 -0400 VOA http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25836534/ By Barry Bateman Have you got a burning question for the most powerful man in the world? Then hurry up and SMS it to United States President Barak Obama so that he can address it during his visit t... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25836671/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:27:40 -0400 IOL http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25836671/ Sirte - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi briefly left the African Union summit on Thursday in frustration at divisions over his scheme to create a powerful continental government. "They're stuck," sai... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25836672/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:27:37 -0400 IOL http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25836672/ Sirte: Concluding marathon talks late into the night, African leaders have agreed to a Libyan-driven push to transform the African Union and in theory greatly extend its powers. The change was materia... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25836543/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:19:58 -0400 Gulf News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25836543/ ALGIERS: More than 8,000 artists and writers from all over Africa, as well as Brazil and the United States, are descending on Algeria for a huge cultural festival that kicks off this weekend until Jul... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25836542/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:14:34 -0400 The Peninsula http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25836542/ A Somali Islamist fighter from Hispul Islam patrols an empty street in Wardigkey, in Mogadishu Heavy fighting in the Somali capital killed at least 20 people on the second day of fierce clashes as ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25834277/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:23:58 -0400 One News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25834277/ Wednesday, explaining why he chose the West African nation of Ghana as the first sub-Saharan African country he would visit next week as President of the United States. http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25834282/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:01:45 -0400 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25834282/ UN Secretary-general Ban Ki-moon on Thursday welcomed a Joint Communique signed by Ghana and Gambia in Libya to end the tension between the two West African countries, and applauded the two nations fo... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25834290/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:28:35 -0400 People's Daily http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25834290/ New research warns of a population time bomb for developing nations as the ratio of elderly people rises faster than in the industrialised world.A report for the French Institute for Demographic Studi... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25830203/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:38:11 -0400 BBC http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25830203/ Faced with mounting dissatisfaction within his formation of the Movement for Democratic Change, Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has called for an urgent meeting with his partners in the co... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25826750/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:33:46 -0400 VOA http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25826750/ NOUAKCHOTT: Thousands of people turned out Thursday in Nouakchott to listen to their favorite candidates as Mauritania's presidential election campaign kicked off in a festive atmosphere ahead of the ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25826762/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:15:29 -0400 The Daily Star http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25826762/ Guinea-Bissau is a nation known around the world for political killings, drug trafficking and crippling poverty. As the country awaits the results of presidential elections held June 28, a group of yo... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25826751/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:33:46 -0400 VOA http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25826751/ Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today welcomed the agreement reached by the Gambia and Ghana to end tensions that emerged after the deaths and disappearances of Ghanaian nationals on Gambian territory i... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25826770/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:33:19 -0400 UN News Centre http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25826770/ Though Zimbabwe has barely embarked on making a new constitution as a key step toward holding another round of elections after the disastrous ballots of 2008, debate has sprung up as to whether the cu... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25826753/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:33:44 -0400 VOA http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25826753/ UNICEF Nigeria Goodwill Ambassador Nwankwo Kanu with children at the Child Rights and Rehabilitation Network Centre in Esi-Eket, Akwa Ibom State, located in the South-South zone of Nigeria. http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25826758/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:32:53 -0400 UNICEF http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25826758/ LONDON: Somalia remains the world's most dangerous country for minority groups, followed by Iraq, Sudan, Afghanistan and Myanmar, a leading human-rights group said Thursday. http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25826763/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:15:26 -0400 The Daily Star http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25826763/ Emaar Properties decided to liquidate its Algeria-based investments following the new foreign direct investment (DI) procedures imposed by the government since year-start. These procedures included r... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25826772/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:46:57 -0400 Dubai Chronicle http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25826772/ Addis Abeba — Ahead of the completion of this year's parliament's regular session for recess, a new draft law enabling to prevent and suppress illegal act of money laundering presented for discu... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25826745/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:40:06 -0400 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25826745/ Many HIV/AIDS activists in Zimbabwe have responded positively to news that the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has shifted disbursing power to the United Nations Development Progra... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25825745/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:33:43 -0400 VOA http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25825745/ editorial STRIKES have always had their place. For years, some have started condemning the regular feature the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has made strikes. Is there a year that passe... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25826743/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:40:07 -0400 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25826743/ Fighting in the Somali capital has killed 25 people over two days, leaving corpses in the streets of a city where a bloody insurgency is intensifying, doctors and witnesses said on Thursday. The figh... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25826765/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:31:03 -0400 Hindustan Times http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25826765/ TOKYO — Prime Minister Taro Aso on Thursday announced a plan for Japan to provide additional yen loans to Tunisia to improve the African country’s infrastructure, Foreign Ministry officia... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25826756/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:24:05 -0400 Japan Today http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25826756/ Despite being preventable and treatable, malaria kills more African children than any other disease. Senegalese superstar, Youssou N'Dour, has teamed up with an American nonprofit to turn the tide o... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25821385/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:36:05 -0400 VOA http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25821385/ Political opponents of Niger's President Mamadou Tandja say they are determined to block a referendum to extend his rule. The White House says it is concerned about President Tandja ruling by decree a... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25821752/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:36:03 -0400 VOA http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25821752/ Uganda's Health Ministry says the country has confirmed its first case of H1N1 swine flu.Ugandan health official James Kakooza said Thursday that a 40-year-old British man tested positive for the vi... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25821753/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:36:04 -0400 VOA http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25821753/ A parliamentary committee has proposed a five-strong board to head the South African Broadcasting Corporation, a day after the previous board was sacked.Parliament voted to dissolve the board after mo... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25821032/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:59:08 -0400 BBC http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25821032/ are set to sign an agreement Friday to launch works for the Trans-Sahara natural gas route, Africa's largest pipeline project by cost, a spokeswoman for Algeria's Energy Ministry said Thursday. http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25821749/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:04:38 -0400 Morning Star http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25821749/ (AFP)--Gabon's government has submitted plans for a timetable ahead of presidential elections to the political parties in the country, officials said Thursday. http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25821856/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:04:34 -0400 Morning Star http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25821856/ When the leaders of the world's wealthiest nations meet at the G-8 summit in Italy next week, one topic on their agenda will be the fight against poverty in Africa. The G-8 nations have provided dev... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25817132/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:22:44 -0400 VOA http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25817132/ FOR six years, Najun Eldin Muhammad Ahmed has been living with HIV. But he is an unusual man. In the pious and conservative Muslim north of Sudan, he not only admits it, but campaigns actively to rais... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25817148/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:04:20 -0400 The Economist http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25817148/ Next week, G8 leaders meet in L'Aquila, Italy, amid the global economic crisis and some unfulfilled promises to the developing world. As a result, some are raising questions about the importance of... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25817134/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:22:43 -0400 VOA http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25817134/ MONTREAL, July 2 /CNW Telbec/ - Reporters Without Borders secretary-general Jean-François Julliard has written to President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua expressing deep concern about the problems bein... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25817143/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:51:48 -0400 CNW Group http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25817143/ Guinea-Bissau's presidential election is heading toward a second round as no candidate won more than 50 percent of the ballots in last Sunday's voting. http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25817133/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:22:44 -0400 VOA http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25817133/ Government troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo carry out most of the rapes of civilians caught up in the war with rebel groups, a rights group says.US-based Human Rights Watch says thousands ha... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25817123/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:46:49 -0400 BBC http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25817123/ Algerian singer Cheb Mami has gone on trial in France facing allegations that he abducted a former partner and forced her to undergo an attempted abortion.Cheb Mami, whose real name is Mohammed Khalif... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25817125/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:46:48 -0400 BBC http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25817125/ Elections in Guinea-Bissau to replace assassinated President Joao Bernardo Vieira are to go to a second round, the electoral commissioner says.Mr Vieira was killed in March in apparent revenge for the... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25817124/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:46:47 -0400 BBC http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25817124/ The only known survivor of this week's Yemeni airliner crash off Comoros has arrived in Paris on a government plane.Bahia Bakari, 14, landed Thursday and was met by her father at the airport. He told ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25813348/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:39:27 -0400 VOA http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25813348/ There was no shortage of goals or drama on the opening day of the Fifa Beach Soccer World Cup 2009 qualifier in Durban yesterday, with 33 shots finding the net in the three games and a controversial s... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25813356/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:00:10 -0400 IOL http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/82d02f9fd73afff4/id/25813356/