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The Egyptian club Al-Ahly of Cairo have won the African Champions League trophy for the sixth time, winning 4-2 on aggegrate over Coton Sport of Cameroon. They concluded their victory with a 2-2 away draw following a 2-0 home win. Al-Ahly has now won more soccer titles than any other club in Africa.
Somali pirates have "stunned" the United States' top military leader by seizing a supertanker three times as big as an aircraft carrier hundreds of nautical miles off the Kenya coast.
The first suspect to face war crimes charges before the International Criminal Court (ICC) - Congolese rebel leader Thomas Lubanga Dyilo - is now scheduled to go on trial next January.
Africa's sole representative at the weekend's Group of 20 (G20) summit of world leaders, South Africa's President Kgalema Motlanthe, says reforms agreed on at the summit would require better representation for the continent in the international financial system.
Africare, the leading United States charitable organization helping Africa, has awarded President George W. Bush the 2008 Bishop John T. Walker Humanitarian Service Award.
There was a high turnout and voting had been orderly in Guinea-Bissau's parliamentary elections on Sunday, news agencies report.
Pirates have seized a Saudi-owned supertanker and its 25 crew members off the Kenyan coast, the United States Navy announced Monday.
Olusegun Obasanjo, the former Nigerian president who has been appointed special United Nations envoy to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), is planning this weekend to meet Laurent Nkunda of the Congrès National Pour la Défense du Peuple (CNDP), the rebel leader whose forces are challenging the DRC government in the eastern Congo.
South Africa is the only country from Africa represented at Saturday's summit of the heads of state of the G20 grouping of countries, called to discuss the global financial crisis emanating from the developed world. In an AllAfrica guest column, Peter Draper of the SA Institute for International Affairs sets out how the country should represent its, and Africa's interests in the meeting.
Civilians fleeing violence in the eastern Democratic Republic sometimes find a safe place, only to have to flee gain when fighting spreads, says Francois Dumont of Médecins sans Frontières, from Goma. AllAfrica's Bunmi Oloruntoba interviewed him by phone about the challenge of bringing health care to the displaced in a rapidly-changing environment.
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Armed groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are looting homes, raping women and forcing civilians to carry water for them, says Rebecca Wynn of the Oxfam agency. AllAfrica's Katy Gabel interviewed her on the phone from Nairobi.
Southern Africa's leaders have told Zimbabwe's two main parties to form a unity government and to share control of the ministry which supervises the country's police force, but Prime Minister-designate Morgan Tsvangirai has rejected their decision.
Singer, song writer, political activist and actress Miriam Zenzi Makeba, or "Mama Africa" as she was popularly known, was born in Johannesburg on March 4 1932.
Miriam Makeba, the South African singing star whose career took off in the 1950s and who famously appeared at the United Nations to condemn apartheid, has died suddenly after a concert in Italy. She was 76.
South Africa's President Kgalema Motlanthe opened an extraordinary summit of southern African leaders on Sunday with a call to Zimbabwean leaders to "show political maturity" by ending the two-month-long stalemate over the formation of a power-sharing government.
Today is a Kenyan public holiday in honor of President-elect Barack Obama. Kisumu city is quiet, save for the barrage of Obama songs playing from speakers, and the loud snippets of Obama-related conversation overheard everywhere.
The South African government will be taking a hard line with Zimbabwean political parties at a summit meeting this weekend over their failure to agree on a power-sharing cabinet, government spokesman Themba Maseko said in Pretoria on Thursday. Maseko was briefing journalists after the weekly meeting of the South African cabinet. Excerpts from the news conference:
Kenya is ecstatic at the news of Barack Obama's historic election as president of the United States. Upon hearing news of their beloved "son's" win Wednesday morning (East Africa Time), residents of Kogelo village burst into song and cheers of joy.
AllAfrica's Katy Gabel blogs from the birthplace of Barack Obama's father in western Kenya on the first responses to his historic victory. East Africa Time is eight hours ahead of U.S. Eastern time.
The media have a central role to play in improving the human condition in Africa, and should collectively address a range of issues to enable them to fulfill their potential.
Over 32 CEOs of African media organizations met in Dakar, Senegal, and called for a stronger push for media development in Africa, and agreed to collaborate so that media can play a more proactive role in Africa's development.
We, owners of African media organizations in Africa, met in Dakar, Sénégal on November 3-4, 2008, to discuss the state of media in Africa, and media's relationship to development in Africa;
Pioneering African media leaders who are meeting in Dakar have called for closer co-operation among publishers and broadcasters across the continent to promote development.
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