UN staff die in DR Congo clashes
A UN peacekeeper has been killed in northwest Democratic Republic of Congo after suspected tribal fighters clashed with government forces, officials have said...
Zimbabwe's Bishop Abel Muzorewa dies
Bishop Muzorewa lost elections to Robert Mugabe
By Peter Biles
BBC News
One of the most prominent political figures in the turbulent years...
Wabunge washtushwa ATCL kudaiwa 39 bilioniSadick Mtulya
WAJUMBE wa Kamati ya Bunge ya Miundombinu, wameshutshwa na deni la Sh39 bilioni na gharama ambazo Shirika la Ndege Tanzania (ATCL)...
AP Pedestrians walk-by the Embassy of Qatar in Washington, Wednesday, April 7, 2010. A Qatari diplomat trying
By IVAN MORENO and DEVLIN BARRETT, Associated Press Writers
DENVER An...
Vatican confirms report of sexual abuse and rape of nuns by priests in 23 countries
The Catholic Church in Rome made the extraordinary admission yesterday that it is aware priests from at least...
Trapped in Rwanda: Presidential hopeful, Victoire IngabireVictoire Ingabire Umuhoza, the President of the United Democratic
Forces opposition party in Rwanda now accuses the ruling RPF party of...
Uganda on Wednesday gave up its claim on Migingo Island and apologised for what it said was an inaccurate decision based on wrong interpretation of a 1962 map.
In compensation, it announced...
Viongozi wa Zimbabwe na Rais Jacob Zuma wa Afrika Kusini, wamekubalia kuchukuliwa kwa hatua kadhaa, kwa ajili ya kuzuia kuvunjika kwa serikali ya umoja wa kitaifa nchini Zimbabwe, ambayo...
Somebody has to spill out the beans sometimes!! Some brave characters? I will put the whole message here for consistency...
THE Supreme Court yesterday jailed a human rights activist Victor...
Obama wants Iran sanctions within 'weeks'
U.S. President Barack Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy hold a joint press conference in the East Room of the White House March 30, 2010 in...
Its very surprisingly to know that majority of Africans do neither care nor even knowing about major conflicts going on inside Africa but they are so much occupied and care about conflicts going...
African viewpoint: In praise of the dead
The axiom not to speak evil of the dead is carried to absurd lengths
In our series of viewpoints from African journalists, Ghanaian writer Elizabeth...
Dozens dead in twin blasts on Moscow metro
Two female suicide bombers blew themselves up Monday on trains on Moscow's metro system, killing at least 34 people during morning rush-hour, emergency...
Al Qaeda is laying deadly "booby traps" by equipping its famale suicide bombers with explosinve breast implants that are impossible to be detected at airport security check points. the British...
Kampala
Rwandas hopes of having two dissident army generals currently in self-imposed exile extradited from South Africa to face trial appear to have taken a fatal blow after President Jacob Zuma...
In textbooks across the country, students are still taught that slavery in the US ended with the adoption of the 13th Amendment in 1865
But the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) knows better...
Lord's Resistance Army rebels blamed for killings just before Christmas
DAKAR, Senegal - At least 321 civilians were killed in a previously unreported massacre in Congo in late 2009, while...