The Special Representative of the United Nations Mission, in Central African Republic and Chad (MINURCAT), Youssef Mahmoud, outlined two solutions to the Security Council on how “to fill the security vacuum” in the north-eastern Central African Republic...

Paul Kagamé arrived well ahead of the presidential election with nearly 93% of the votes, enlisting for another seven years mandate as President.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced that his country would impose a temporary ban on grain exports due to high heat and drought, resulting in an increase of the benchmark index of cereal products ever recorded for...

It is about the European rocket Ariane 5, which has orbited the telecommunications satellite Rascom. Covering mainly sub-Saharan Africa, the satellite, whose construction was entrusted in 1999 to Alcatel-Alenia (now Thales-Alenia), will connect African villages to the...

The first round of the presidential elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as well as the legislative, will be held November 27, 2011, according to the schedule released by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC).

The project announced by the UN envoy for the Horn of Africa is very ambitious. The United Nations and other international organisations will return to Somalia within the next two months after an absence of more than...

A mission, comprising officials of Cape Verde, Angola and Brazil, was expected to arrive yesterday to Bissau to discuss the deployment of a foreign force, wanted by the government to stabilise a country regularly plagued by violence,...

Ray Charles and Albrecht Conze, ambassadors of the United States and Germany in Zimbabwe and Barbara Plinkert, the acting representative of the European Union (EU) had left the Sabina Mugabe’s funeral,

The second tour of the Guinean presidential election will take place on September the 19th, announces the governmental decree broadcasted on the national television.

Despite of the fact that a  World Bank research survey  has disclosed that  South Africa, being one of the most attractive emerging markets, is in a prime position to attract more foreign direct investment, critics of structural...