AFRICA

• Kenya detains author of anti-Obama book

  Tuesday, 7th October,2008

  The American author of a best-selling, controversial book blasting White House hopeful Barack Obama has been detained by security officials in Kenya. read more...

• Zimbabwe party's call to break impasse

  Tuesday, 7th October,2008

  Zimbabwe's opposition renewed a call for regional mediators to help break an impasse over a power-sharing deal with President Robert Mugabe's ruling party. read more...

• Man with 86 wives to go before tribunal

  Tuesday, 7th October,2008

  A Nigerian man with 86 wives will go before a criminal tribunal after an Islamic Sharia court transferred his case there, a court official said on Monday. read more...

• Zimbabwe parties to resume cabinet talks

  Monday, 6th October,2008

  Zimbabwe's main political rivals will meet to discuss the allocation of contentious cabinet posts after their leaders failed to agree, says reports. read more...

• Baby found alive in mud pool in Algeria

  Monday, 6th October,2008

  A baby has been found alive after spending four days in a pool of mud following flash floods that killed at least 41 in Algeria this week, an official says. read more...

• Zimbabwe leaders fail to reach agreement

  Sunday, 5th October,2008

  Zimbabwe's political leaders have failed to iron out differences over the makeup of a unity government, the opposition says. read more...

• Kidnapped Briton freed in Nigeria

  Saturday, 4th October,2008

  A British national kidnapped this month in southern Nigeria's oil hub of Port Harcourt was freed, a military spokesman told AFP. read more...

• Algerian flash flood kills 33 people

  Saturday, 4th October,2008

  Hundreds of troops have converged on the town of Ghardaia to help with relief operations after a flash flood there killed 33, Algeria's interior ministry said. read more...

• Somali pirates to 'fight for ransom'

  Friday, 3rd October,2008

  Somali pirates holding a hijacked arms ship say they will not release it for less than $US20 million ($A25 million). read more...

• Flooding in Algerian oasis kills 30

  Friday, 3rd October,2008

  Flooding following rare torrential rains on the edge of the Algerian desert have killed at least 30 people and injured 50, officials say. read more...

• 19 teens dead in Tanzania disco stampede

  Thursday, 2nd October,2008

  At least 19 teenagers and children died during a stampede at a disco organised to mark the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Tanzania, reports said. read more...

• US Navy pile pressure on Somali pirates

  Thursday, 2nd October,2008

  The US Navy has piled pressure on Somali pirates holding out for a $US20 million ransom for a Ukrainian cargo ship carrying tanks and other arms. read more...

• SAfrica power-sharing deal is failing

  Thursday, 2nd October,2008

  Zimbabwe's ruling party has rejected an opposition call for ex-South African president Thabo Mbeki to intervene to salvage a power-sharing deal. read more...

• Mugabe, Tsvangirai fail to name cabinet

  Wednesday, 1st October,2008

  Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai have failed to agree on a share-out of ministries, the opposition says. read more...

• US monitors arms ship seized off Somalia

  Tuesday, 30th September,2008

  The US Navy stood guard around a Ukrainian ship carrying tanks and arms to stop them from falling into the wrong hands in lawless Somalia. read more...