Ivory Coast and Ghana are potentially engaged in a wrestling-arm that could have serious consequences for their economies after the significant offshore oilfield discovery off their coasts.

The African Union has welcomed the release of the four South African Police Advisers who were kidnapped on 11 April 2010 in Darfur, Sudan.In a statement released to media, Jean Ping, the chairperson of the AU Commission,...

New statistics from South Africa show that hotels are not yet getting busier after the financial crisis. Fewer tourists are looking for cheaper accommodation in early 2010, compared to 2009.According to the government agency Statistics South Africa,...

Food crisis “is just beginning” in Niger, warned Monday, April 26, John Holmes. On the first day of his visit to the country, the Secretary General of the United Nations for Humanitarian Affairs was held to highlight...

After an initial postponement from the initial date of April 25, the electoral calendar, setting presidential and legislative elections for May 16 in Central Africa, will undergo further change. This possibility has been raised two weeks ago...

Gunmen killed a Nigerian journalist, Edo Ugbawu, a judicial correspondent, at his home. According to a colleague, he had never   worked on any controversial articles or received any threats.     The same day, two colleagues were killed while...

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed an order of fulfilment to the terms of the U.N 1844 Security Council resolution, introducing sanctions against legal and physical Somali entities.The order prohibits the export of military goods from Russia to...

The Zimbabwean government on Monday denied having signed an agreement allowing Iran to exploit uranium deposits in Zimbabwe.

The Union forces of resistance (UFR), which includes the main rebel factions have denounced the agreement between Chad and the UN on the UN Mission to Central Africa and Chad, worrying about the refugees’ security.

Security has been beefed up on the Kenya-Ethiopia border following the killing of two people by suspected Merille attackers. Consequently, security team and elders from the two countries will hold a joint meeting to ease rising tension...