Madonna arrived in Malawi Sunday to visit the girls school she is building in the impoverished country where she adopted two children, an official for the star's charity…
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Nigeria militant group calls indefinite cease-fire
Nigeria's main militant group declared an indefinite cease-fire Sunday, raising the prospect of peace in the oil-rich Delta region after nearly three years of hostilities have crippled production.…
EGYPT: Abdullah Kahiya, “Cairo is better than Mogadishu, but life is still hard”
Officially, there were 6,108 Somali refugees registered with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in Cairo in September, the third largest group after the Sudanese and Iraqis.
Atrocities haunt DRC child soldiers
The abduction of children by militias which then force them to work as soldiers, porters and sex slaves has been a long-term and widespread problem in the Democratic…
U.S. to help Mali fight Al Qaeda
The United States is stepping up military assistance to Mali, to help the country fight armed militants including al Qaeda which are active in the northern part of…
Guinea to co-operate with UN probe
Guinea's military leadership has pledged to co-operate with a United Nations inquiry into last month's deadly crackdown on opposition demonstrators, a UN official has said.
Angolan airline TAAG says looking for partner
TAAG Angola Airlines said on Wednesday it could soon pick a partner to help it develop its business, after receiving several offers from other airlines interested in linking…
Undercover job hunters reveal huge race bias in Britain
A government sting operation targeting hundreds of employers across Britain has uncovered widespread racial discrimination against workers with African and Asian names.
Mandela Foundation denies claim he wrote foreword
A new self-serving book by a central African president lists Nelson Mandela as the writer of the glowing foreward, but South Africa's iconic leader says he never wrote…
Tsvangirai, SADC Leaders Discuss Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWEAN Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai was in SA yesterday ahead of meetings with key Southern African Development Community (Sadc) leaders on the latest political crisis that triggered his…