Africa

Africa

• Amid signs of turmoil, S Sudan says oil will flow

  Following a lengthy Cabinet meeting, South Sudan's government spokesman said Wednesday that the country will continue to export oil through Sudan and ... 

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  AP PHOTOS: Nigeria prepares to bury writer Achebe

  Writer Chinua Achebe, whose works focused on the conflict between modernity and the way of life in rural Nigeria, has returned home for the final time 

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  Kenya's truth report: Killings, land grabs, graft

  Kenya's president received a long-awaited Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission report that names the president and his deputy as being among ... 

• Malawi finds buyer for presidential jet

  Malawi's cost-cutting president is selling her predecessor's jet. Cabinet clerk Ernest Katchetche said Wednesday that the government has identified ... 

• African Union celebrates 50th year

  African nations this week mark the 50th year since the founding of a continentwide organization that spearheaded efforts to liberate Africa from ... 

• Zimbabwe's president signs new constitution

  Zimbabwe's president signs into law a new constitution and vows to hold peaceful and clean elections later this year. President Robert Mugabe said ... 

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  Egypt troops in Sinai sweep mistakenly hit funeral

  Egyptian troops and police mistakenly fired on a Bedouin funeral in the Sinai Peninsula on Tuesday, security officials said, in the opening salvo of ... 

• Nigeria: Islamic extremist inmates to be released

  Nigeria's military said Tuesday that the West African nation would release some of the prisoners it has taken in the country's fight against Islamic ... 

• Algerian president leaves Paris military hospital

  Officials say Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has left the French military hospital where he has been treated for nearly a month and ... 

• 2 Moroccans tried for homosexuality get 4 months

  A Moroccan court has convicted two men of homosexuality and public indecency, and sentenced each to four months in prison, in the latest case against ... 

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  SAfrican court acquits brother of Oscar Pistorius

  One Pistorius brother is free of charges — acquitted Tuesday of culpable homicide in the death of a woman in a road accident. The famous younger ... 

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  South Africa: Winnie Mandela forced auction flops

  There were no bidders and no locksmiths willing to force entry for a scheduled auction Tuesday to sell artworks and other belongings of Nelson ... 

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  Fighting for 2nd day between army, rebels in Congo

  Fighting between the M23 rebels and the army continued for a second day Tuesday near Congo's eastern provincial capital of Goma, in clashes that have ... 

• Court frees man in murder that shocked SAfricans

  A magistrate drops charges against the boyfriend accused in the brutal gang-rape and killing of a teenager that shocked South Africans. 

• Rebels in C. African Republic protest conditions

  Some members of the rebel alliance who overthrew the president of Central African Republic are protesting outside the luxury hotel where their leader ... 

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  Uganda leader's legacy at stake in general's case

  An army general's concern that officials are at risk of assassination if they oppose President Yoweri Museveni's alleged plan to have his son succeed ... 

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  Tunisian feminist arrested for alleged provocation

  A Tunisian feminist who scandalized her country by posting topless photos of herself online has been arrested after allegedly sneaking into Tunisia's ... 

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  Egypt: Security beefed up in Sinai after abduction

  Dozens of Egyptian troops and armored vehicles moved into Sinai Monday as the government beefed up security in the volatile peninsula after the ... 

• State Dept: Reports of anti-Semitism increase

  The State Department appointed a special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism Monday as a new report documents a global increase in incidents of ... 

• M23 rebels clash with soldiers in eastern Congo

  Clashes erupted Monday in eastern Congo between government troops and a rebel group believed to be backed by neighboring Rwanda, escalating to the use ... 

• Rebels attack C. African Republic villages; 8 dead

  Suspected foreign fighters backing a rebel movement now in control of Central African Republic's government invaded a remote north-central village and ... 

• 51 die in 2 South Sudan clashes; army retakes town

  Twenty-four people died in a battle between South Sudan's military and rebel fighters the government believes to be supported by neighboring Sudan, ... 

• Spokesman for Ansar Dine arrested in Mauritania

  The man who acted as the spokesman for one of the three al-Qaida-linked groups occupying northern Mali turned himself in over the weekend to ...