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Southern Sudan might break away from the north if the "troubled relationship" between Sudan's dominant centre and regions on its periphery are not resolved, a new report has warned.
There has been a new upsurge of piracy off Somalia, reports an agency associated with the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato).
THE Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC is now demanding that the police, army and Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) be placed under the effective control of parties to the inclusive government agreement after the security apparatus has of late been used to target MDC members and human rights activists.
The extra-ordinary meeting of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) summoned by President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua over the coup in Guinea will hold tomorrow in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
United Nations-backed talks aimed at bringing an end to the deadly conflict between the Government and rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have been focusing on security matters, including a possible ceasefire, since resuming earlier this week in Nairobi, a senior official said today.
LRA rebel leader Joseph Kony is in Garamba jungles and has not escaped the allies' snare to sneak into the Central African Republic (CAR).
The latest round of United Nations-supported Government-rebel political negotiations seeking to quell the violence engulfing the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continued today, with the co-chair reporting slow but steady progress.
MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai' stay outside Zimbabwe is coming to an end as he's expected back in Harare soon, a senior official of the party said on Friday.
When the rainy season ends in Cape Verde hundreds of families tap into another source of water: fog. Farmers track fog as their ancestors followed rain clouds, monitoring 15 double-sided nets that rise into the mountains.
Thousands of civilians have been displaced in another deadly attack by suspected Lord's Resistance Army rebels in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to local sources.
Voodoo rituals have long been inaccessible to anyone except disciples and priests. Even though certain practices like scarification carry a high risk of HIV infection, outsiders to the voodoo community have largely been unable to penetrate the secrecy that health officials say can be deadly to its followers.
BRIAN Towanda sits with his wife on a sofa counting down the days to January 15 -- the day his spouse's gynaecologist said she would deliver their first child.
Foreign correspondents and local journalists filing for international media have expressed anger over the introduction this week of hefty accreditation fees, apparently aimed at stifling their work.
IN a move likely to appal conservationists the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) and the Parks and Wildlife Management Authority have reportedly struck a deal that has resulted in the authority slaughtering elephants to feed soldiers at army barracks across the country.
Parents, police and even judges are hesitant to press charges against human-traffickers because of fear of punishment, concern for the community and confusion about Togo's 2005 anti-trafficking law, according to an NGO analysis of the law.
More than three years after a N30 billion contract was awarded to a Chinese company for the supply of one N17, 12 F7 and five other Chinese aircraft for military flying operations by the Nigerian Airforce, delivery of the aircraft is yet to be effected even after over 85 percent payment obligations had been made by the Nigerian government.
About 152 motorcyclists had been arrested by the Anambra State Sector Command of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) for compulsory use of helmet since the order came into effect January 1, 2009.
The United States Navy has announced the formation of an international force to provide security in the dangerous shipping lanes in the Gulf of Aden off the Somali coast.
The controversy over who has the constitutional power to institute a probe panel into the November 28, 2008 sectarian riots in Jos, Plateau State has taken another turn.
The United States Africa Command, under the directive of President George Bush, will soon airlift Rwandan equipment meant for the Rwandan peacekeepers from Kigali to war ravaged Darfur in Sudan.
Rwandan Prosecutor General, Martin Ngoga, has confirmed that at least 17 people are under investigations for their involvement in mismanagement of Funds for Support of Genocide Survivors (FARG), established some ten years ago.
THE pecking order in the African National Congress (ANC) will be decided over the next few days, as the ruling party's provincial structures meet to decide on its candidates ahead of the party's national list conference next weekend.
AT LEAST four out of 10 undersea telecoms cables supposed to be heading for Africa will probably never materialise, according to analysts from AfricaNext Investment Research.
MANUFACTURING output dived 4,4% in November, the biggest annual fall in more than nine years, adding to evidence that the economy's second-biggest sector is in recession.
CIVIL society organisations in SA are to press the government and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to hasten resolution of the crisis in Zimbabwe.
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