Africa

The U.N. announced Friday that it is authorizing the withdrawal of 20 percent of its peacekeepers.

South African opera singer Siphiwo Ntshebe died suddenly of meningitis on Wednesday.

Th EU, the oppostion, and Human Rights watch all say the Ethiopian election of PM Zenawi was not ...

No violence was reported after polls closed in the fourth general elections in Ethiopia yesterday.

Six Somali pirates, captured by Yemeni forces in April last year, were sentenced to death by a Yemen ...

Violence is escalating between the Sudanese rebel group Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and Sudanese police.

Four east African countries signed an agreement that would allow for more equitable distribution of water.

The International Criminal Court will probe violence in Kenya, where more than 1,300 people were killed.

Umaru Musa Yar'Adua passed away on Wednesday, and today thousands attended his funeral, alongside swearing in the new ...

One of Darfur's largest rebel groups ceased peace talks with the Sudanese government on Monday.

Three ships hijacked by Somali pirates were sailed up the coast after Islamist militants seized a pirate stronghold.

U.N. investigating the latest attack by Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) on villagers in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and his National Congress Party (NCP) were announced winners on Monday.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Zimbabwe on Thursday for a two-day visit.

A luxury train derailed just outside the South African city of Pretoria, killing two people and injuring dozens.

Historic five-day presidential, parliamentary and local elections in Sudan closed on Thursday.

Fourteen private radio stations in the Somali capital of Mogadishu were forced to stop airing music on Tuesday.

Organizers are now trying to sell 500,000 tickets to locals.

16 million Sudanese people registered to vote by April 8 in country's first multiparty election in 24 years.

The second day of Sudan's first multiparty elections in 24 years on Sunday was chaotic.

Militants of the Al Shabab group took over and robbed the largest U.N. compound in Somalia on Thursday. ...

Sri Lankans took to the ballot boxes on Wednesday for parliamentary elections. The elections came three months after ...

99 years old, former teacher Akasease Kofi Boakye Yiadom graduated in Business from Presbyterian University College.

Controversial leader of South Africa's white supremacist movement was bludgeoned to death

Guinea-Bissau Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Jr. placed under house arrest by soldiers the West African nation's army.

Sudan's Yasir Arman, will not participate in the first multi-party elections in the country in 24 years.

Somali pirates have hijacked a cargo vessel off the coast of Yemen.