HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's army is suffering food shortages after recruiting thousands of new soldiers without authority from the cash-strapped treasury, Finance Minister Tendai Biti said on Thursday.
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Angola’s MPLA names Vicente as party No.2
LISBON (Reuters) - Angola's MPLA party named Manuel Vicente, the former head of state oil firm Sonangol, as No. 2 on a list of party candidates for an August…
Megint egymást ütik a „szövetségesek” Maliban
Mali, Timbuktu – Ismét harcok robbantak ki Észak-Maliban a tuaregek és a radikális iszlamista milícia között.
Kati kínjai – kínzás a puccsisták börtönében Maliban!
Mali, Bamakó - Ezt állítják levelükben a fogvatartottak ügyvédei, akik az igazságügyi miniszterhez fordultak. A levél szerint a foglyokat kínozzák, megalázzák és rémes körülmények között tartják. Egyáltalán nem…
Rabszolgasors és elitsors Afrikában (elemzés)
Mali, Bamakó - Ne kerülgessük a rabszolgaság témáját, mert ennek értelmezése nélkül a mai folyamatok és a mai elit kialakulása érthetetlen. Afrikában a rabszolgaság durván három gyűjtőtégelyben alakult…
Four killed in attack on village in Ivory Coast
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Four people were killed in an attack on a village in western Ivory Coast not far from the scene of an ambush in which seven U.N.…
Sub-Saharan Africa’s giant cement factory opens
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday inaugurated one of sub-sahara Africa's biggest cement factories, with a capacity to produce 5.25 million metric tonnes a year.
Ivory Coast UN attack drives cocoa farmers off land
ABIDJAN, June 12 (Reuters) - An attack in western Ivory Coast that killed 18 people last week, including seven United Nations peacekeepers, has driven hundreds of farmers off…
EU, US asked to help wrest Kismayo from Shebab: Kenya
The EU and the US have been asked to help the African Union force in Somalia (AMISOM) to wrest the port of Kismayo from Somalia's Shebab Islamists, Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odingasaid Tuesday.
Sudan frees opposition politicians
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan has freed two members of the opposition Popular Congress Party detained for more than five months on suspicion of communicating with armed rebel groups, state…