(SomaliNet) A leading dissident within South Africa's ruling ANC has said it would now be hard to halt plans to launch a breakaway party.
South Africa’s Former deputy defence minister Mluleki George had joined ex defence minister Mosiuoa Lekota on Wednesday in threatening to split the African N
(SomaliNet) The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) said on Thursday it has asked the U.N. Security Council to call an emergency meeting on what it described as an incursion into its territory by government forces from neighboring Rwanda.
Mbusa Nyamwisi, Congolese Foreign Minister Antipas made the
(SomaliNet) The chairman of the African Union (AU) urged the world on Thursday not to row back on aid to the world's poorest continent due to the financial crisis.
"Our appeal to our development partners is that they should not cut aid to the developing countries," Jakaya Kikwete, who is also pre
(SomaliNet) In a corruption case being closely watched by militants in the restive region, a senior official from Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta pleaded not guilty on Thursday to embezzling $40 million in public funds.
Chief of staff to the governor of Rivers state Ezebunwo Nyeson Wike, face
(SomaliNet) If Zimbabwe’s power-sharing deal collapses, the Southern African nation risks falling into deeper international isolation, Simba Makoni, a former finance minister and the third place candidate in Zimbabwe's presidential vote, warned on Monday.
"If the deal fails we will remain a pa
(SomaliNet) A Nigerian official said on Monday that five Filipino seamen kidnapped in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta earlier in October have been released by their captors.
The official said gunmen had boarded their vessel, the MV Aveiro, in the waters of Bonny and seized them at gunpoint on Octo
(SomaliNet) A three-day conference on combating female circumcision is going on in the West African country Burkina Faso.The participants include president's wives from seven African countries.
Meanwhile, female circumcision is still prevalent in around 30 African countries, despite extensive ca
(SomaliNet) Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has sworn in two ZANU-PF officials as vice presidents.
Under the terms of a power sharing agreement, the vice presidential posts should be held by members of his party.
However, the inaugurations came after Mr Mugabe's controversial decision to
(SomaliNet) The trial of a Rwandan suspected war criminal began at a court in The Hague on Monday.
The man, an ethnic Hutu, is accused of involvement in killings of Tutsis in 1994. He allegedly raped three women and abducted and killed three young children. The suspect says he is innocent.
He
(SomaliNet) The UN said on Tuesday that intense fighting between the Congolese army and Ugandan rebels have forced about 50 000 people to flee their homes in the north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo's Ituri region.
"The fighting broke out in September and has since caused heavy loss of
