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  • US official: Sudan's elections to be crucial test (AP)  - Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:57:17 GMT 
    AP - A U.S. official says Sudan's upcoming elections must be as transparent as possible to prepare for a referendum on independence for the oil-rich south in 2011.
  • Nigerian soldiers open fire on youths; 2 killed (AP)  - Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:18:52 GMT 

    Rev. Joshua T. Dafom, right, stands in front of the grave of a woman killed in fighting in the village of Ku-got, Nigeria, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. More than 200 people died in central Nigeria in recent fighting between Christians and Muslims. (AP Photos/Jon Gambrell)AP - Soldiers opened fire on a crowd after curfew and killed two people, witnesses said Wednesday, just days after fighting between Christians and Muslims in the area left more than 200 dead including dozens of children.



  • Hundreds protest to demand Nigeria leader appears (Reuters)  - Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:57:37 GMT 
    Reuters - Hundreds of Nigerians gathered in the capital Abuja on Wednesday for a march to the presidency to demand the appearance of ailing leader Umaru Yar'Adua, two weeks after he returned from a Saudi hospital.
  • Head of Egypt's al-Azhar dies in Saudi Arabia: report (Reuters)  - Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:26:09 GMT 
    Reuters - Egyptian religious leader Sheikh Mohamed Sayed Tantawi, the head of al Azhar, has died on a visit to Saudi Arabia, Al Jazeera television reported on Wednesday, quoting its correspondent. Al-Azhar, one of the most prominent seats of Sunni Islamic learning in the Muslim world, has schools, universities and other educational institutions across Egypt.
  • Nigeria massacre residents return home (AFP)  - Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:53:09 GMT 

    Locals gather at a mass burial of their kinsmen killed during a religious massacre in the village of Dogo Nahawa, Nigeria. Residents of an area where hundreds were massacred at the weekend near the city of Jos returned home early Wednesday having fled overnight gunfire, a witness said(AFP/Pius Utomi Ekpei)AFP - Residents of an area where hundreds were massacred at the weekend near Nigeria's city of Jos returned home early Wednesday having fled overnight gunfire, a witness said.



  • East Africa new frontier for oil exploration (AFP)  - Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:33:50 GMT 

    An oil exploration tower is pictured in Tonya on the Ugandan shore of Lake Albert. East Africa has become a promising new frontier for oil exploration and major multinationals are jostling for the rights to search for black gold, industry experts said(AFP/File/Walter Astrada)AFP - East Africa has become a promising new frontier for oil exploration and major multinationals are jostling for the rights to search for black gold, industry experts said.



  • Christians flee after Nigeria's massacre (AFP)  - Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:48:27 GMT 

    Injured twenty-year-old student Mercy John lies on a hospital bed following the religious violence that killed hundreds in Dogo Nahawa, south of Jos, Plateau State. Fresh gunfire has sent Christian villagers in Nigeria fleeing as a senior official accused the country's military chiefs of having ignored warnings about last weekend's massacre.(AFP/Pius Utomi Ekpei)AFP - Fresh gunfire has sent Christian villagers in Nigeria fleeing as a senior official accused the country's military chiefs of having ignored warnings about last weekend's massacre.



  • Britain gives one million pounds to S.Africa for condoms (AFP)  - Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:30:31 GMT 

    A nurse draws blood from a patient for an HIV test in Johannesburg. Britain announced Tuesday one million pounds in aid to South Africa for the purchase of condoms to tackle HIV and AIDS in the world's worst-affected country ahead of the 2010 World Cup.(AFP/File/Paballo Thekiso)AFP - Britain announced Tuesday one million pounds in aid to South Africa for the purchase of condoms to tackle HIV and AIDS in the world's worst-affected country ahead of the 2010 World Cup.



  • U.S. apologizes to Libya for dismissive comments (Reuters)  - Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:23:43 GMT 

    Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi speaks at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) food security summit in Rome November 16, 2009. REUTERS/Filippo Monteforte/POOLReuters - The U.S. State Department apologized on Tuesday for dismissive comments its spokesman made about Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's call for "jihad," often translated as "armed struggle," against Switzerland.



  • Pienaar gets drunk-driving ban (AFP)  - Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:56:39 GMT 

    South Africa star Steven Pienaar, pictured in January 2010, was banned from driving for 12 months by a British court on Tuesday after pleading guilty to a drunk-driving offence.(AFP/File/Martin Elliott)AFP - South Africa star Steven Pienaar was banned from driving for 12 months by a British court on Tuesday after pleading guilty to a drunk-driving offence.



  • Nigeria urged to end impunity after village massacre (Reuters)  - Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:28:38 GMT 

    Locals gather at a mass burial of their kinsmen killed during a religious massacre in the village of Dogo Nahawa, Nigeria. Residents of an area where hundreds were massacred at the weekend near the city of Jos returned home early Wednesday having fled overnight gunfire, a witness said(AFP/Pius Utomi Ekpei)Reuters - Nigeria must prosecute those behind a weekend massacre and address underlying issues of poverty and discrimination if it is to end a cycle of violence in the zone between its Muslim north and Christian south, rights groups and diplomats said.



  • Sudan polls a sideshow to referendum: southern leader (AFP)  - Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:20:07 GMT 

    Salva Kiir (L), president and vice-president of South Sudan, arrives in Nairobi for the Inter-Governmental Authority Heads of State and Government summit at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre, March 9. Self-determination is south Sudan's absolute priority and no delay in national elections should affect the January 2011 referendum on southern independence, Kiir said Tuesday.(AFP/Simon Maina)AFP - Self-determination is south Sudan's absolute priority and no delay in national elections should affect the January 2011 referendum on southern independence, the south's top leader said Tuesday.



  • Zimbabwe court blocks ouster of Parliament speaker (AP)  - Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:24:40 GMT 
    AP - A Zimbabwean court has rejected an attempt to oust the Parliament speaker, who is a top aide to the prime minister.
  • Ethiopian Jews in plea to Israel (AFP)  - Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:18:57 GMT 

    Newly-arrived Jewish immigrants from Ethiopia are seen in Israel's Ben Gurion airport, January 2010. Ethiopia's dwindling Jewish community, known as the Falash Mura, on Tuesday said their living conditions at home were desperate and appealed on Israel to keep its pledge to welcome them.(AFP/File/Yehuda Raizner)AFP - Ethiopia's dwindling Jewish community, known as the Falash Mura, on Tuesday said their living conditions at home were desperate and appealed on Israel to keep its pledge to welcome them.



  • Court upholds Tsvangirai ally as Zimbabwe speaker (AFP)  - Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:48:48 GMT 

    Zimbabwean's opposition member Lovemore Moyo takes the oath of allegiance as he swears-in of as new parliament speaker at Harare parliament, August 2008. Zimbabwe's high court on Tuesday threw out a bid by an ally of President Robert Mugabe to nullify the election of Moyo as the speaker of parliament.(AFP/File/Desmond Kwande)AFP - Zimbabwe's high court on Tuesday threw out a bid by an ally of President Robert Mugabe to nullify the election of the speaker of parliament from rival Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's party.



  • Sudan army says it now controls strategic Darfur plateau (AFP)  - Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:53:46 GMT 

    Fighters from the Abdelwahid Nur faction of the Sudan Liberation Army pictured during a meeting with UN and African Union representatives in the mountainous area of Nertiti on the edge of Jebel Marra plateau in central Darfur, April 2008, in a picture released by Albany Associates. Sudan said Monday its army had taken control of the strategic plateau in the war-torn western region of Darfur.(AFP/HO/File/Stuart Price)AFP - Sudan said on Monday its army had taken control of the strategic Jebel Marra plateau in the war-torn western region of Darfur after fresh fighting between government forces and rebels.



  • Nigeria must bring killers of Christians to justice: Clinton (AFP)  - Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:34:47 GMT 

    Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks at the State Department in Washington, DC. Clinton called Monday on Nigeria to find and punish those responsible for the killings of more than 500 Christians in a wave of sectarian slaughter.(AFP/Getty Images/Mark Wilson)AFP - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called Monday on Nigeria to find and punish those responsible for the killings of more than 500 Christians in a wave of sectarian slaughter.



  • No case against Zimbabwe's Roy Bennett: lawyer (AFP)  - Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:45:30 GMT 

    Zimbabwean Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party treasurer Roy Bennett arrives at the Zimbabwe High Court for his treason trial in January 2010. Lawyers for the top aide to Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Monday told his treason trial he had no case to answer.(AFP/File/Desmond Kwande)AFP - Lawyers for a top aide to Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Monday told his treason trial he had no case to answer.



  • Zimbabwe's Bennett wants terrorism charges dropped (Reuters)  - Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:32:12 GMT 

    Zimbabwe opposition party Movement for Democratic Change's (MDC) treasurer Roy Bennett arrives at the high court in Harare, January 12, 2010 file photo. REUTERS/Philimon BulawayoReuters - Lawyers for Zimbabwean opposition politician Roy Bennett asked the High Court Monday to drop terrorism charges against him in a trial which has raised tensions in Harare's fragile unity government.



  • South Africa lions: Global financial crisis may starve lions (The Christian Science Monitor)  - Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:48:00 GMT 
    The Christian Science Monitor - After running wild through the world's concrete jungles, the financial crisis now stalks the South African savanna and one of the world's most beloved predators (South Africa lions) could become its prey.

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  • ANC wants Winnie Mandela clarity  - Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:29:21 GMT 
    South Africa's ANC asks Winnie Mandela to clarify a media report in which she apparently fiercely criticised ex-husband Nelson.
  • US apology for Gaddafi comments  - Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:24:35 GMT 
    The US apologises for comments made by a spokesman after Libya's Col Gaddafi called for a holy war against Switzerland.
  • Egypt's top cleric dies aged 81  - Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:34:06 GMT 
    Egypt's top Muslim cleric, Sheikh Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, has died suddenly in Saudi Arabia at the age of 81.
  • Nigeria 'ignored attack warnings'  - Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:01:50 GMT 
    A Nigerian governor accuses the army of ignoring warnings of attacks, as communal tension remains high near Jos.
  • Ring may be giant 'impact crater'  - Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:26:56 GMT 
    Deforestation in central Africa has revealed what could be an impact crater left by a giant space rock, scientists say.
  • Somali hope for Chandlers release  - Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:14:19 GMT 
    Somali President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed says efforts are being made to release a UK couple held by pirates as soon as possible.
  • Row over exhuming Rwanda leader  - Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:25:11 GMT 
    The son of Rwanda's first President, Dominique Mbonyumutwa, protests at orders to exhume his father's remains.
  • Nigeria kidnappers free SA man  - Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:50:54 GMT 
    A South African TV worker is freed by kidnappers a week after he was snatched near Nigeria's oil-rich Delta region.
  • Prince fined over Kenya assault  - Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:22:18 GMT 
    Princess Caroline of Monaco's husband is fined 200,000 euros for assaulting a hotel owner in Kenya in 2000.
  • UK gives condom aid ahead of World Cup 'festivities'  - Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:21:57 GMT 
    The UK donates £1m ($1.5m) to South Africa to buy 42m condoms, as the nation builds up to the football World Cup.
  • Eriksson Ivory Coast link played down  - Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:45:11 GMT 
    Sven-Goran Eriksson's agent says the coach was unlikely to take charge of the Ivory Coast team at the World Cup.
  • Bekono sacked by CSKA Sofia  - Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:10:42 GMT 
    Bulgarian giants CSKA Sofia terminate the contract of former Cameroon international goalkeeper Daniel Bekono.
  • Ghanaian player dies after game  - Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:46:51 GMT 
    Ghanaian football authorities confirm that a player has died after collapsing on the pitch during a game.
  • Mommie? Poppie?  - Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:15:22 GMT 
    Addressing your elders is a thorny issue in Ghana
  • In pictures  - Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:21:26 GMT 
    Togo in trouble as election protests continue to rage
  • Hidden charms  - Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:31:11 GMT 
    Meeting kindness and con-men in Central Africa
  • Fearful hints  - Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:11:35 GMT 
    Zimbabwe's whites uneasy as Mugabe wants another term
  • Connected world  - Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:24:35 GMT 
    Mapping the global growth of the internet since 1998
  • The Editors  - Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:05:32 GMT 
    BBC responds in row over Ethiopia 'aid for arms'
  • Uganda 'to move half a million'  - Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:07:04 GMT 
    People living in Uganda's mountainous areas are at risk from mudslides and must be relocated, the government says.
  • US eases Sudan web sanctions  - Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:25:15 GMT 
    The US eases sanctions on Iran, Cuba and Sudan to help further the use of internet services and support opposition groups.
  • SA opposition call for Zuma probe  - Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:55:23 GMT 
    South Africa's opposition leader calls for an investigation into whether President Jacob Zuma has broken the strict ethics code.
  • France seizes 35 Somali 'pirates'  - Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:58:41 GMT 
    The French navy captures 35 Somali suspected pirates in three days - calling it the biggest seizure since 2008.
  • Tear gas fired at Togo protesters  - Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:39:36 GMT 
    Togo police use tear gas to disperse protesters angry at Saturday's election victory for President Faure Gnassingbe.
  • Geldof challenges BBC aid claim  - Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:59:30 GMT 
    Bob Geldof challenges the BBC to substantiate its report that millions raised for Ethiopia aid paid for arms.

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