The Malian President, Amadou Toumani Touré, said he was never informed about the Franco-Mauritanian raid conducted last July 22, in the Malian territory, against Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).

Jean-Pierre Bemba was a rebel leader from 1998 to 2003 and vice President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) before being defeated in the presidential election in October 2006 by Joseph Kabila.

“African countries should start broadening their economic capacities by training and education, rather than continuing on their dependence on raw products that would increase their vulnerability to another crisis, which was “not a small threat”. Africa has...

Laurent Gbagbo and Alassane Ouattara are accusing each other of being responsible for introducing the “political violence” in the country.

The unsuccessful presidential candidate, Cellou Dalein Diallo, is accusing the winner, Alpha Condé, of having “provoked” ethnic violence occurred since October and has no plans at present to join  him in the future government.

“Most of Egyptians think the Nile begins at the border with Sudan and ends at the Mediterranean Sea. It’s hard to imagine that people in so many different countries call the river their own”. Pressured by the upstream...

More than three million Burkinabe are called to the polls on Sunday, November 21 for a presidential election with the incumbent president, Blaise Compaoré, as the favourite.

The state of emergency is declared in Guinea.The emergency measure, with a night curfew will remain in force until confirmation of final results.

The oil giant company British Petroleum (BP) has sold, for nearly 300 million US dollars, all its fuels marketing businesses in several southern African countries to Puma Energy, which is already involved in a number of strategic...

Sixteen countries are rated as “extreme risk” by the global risks advisory firm, Maplecroft, by assessment of frequency and intensity of terrorist incidents in 196 countries, and titled the Terrorism Risk Index (TRI).