(SomaliNet) After being denied a passport by authorities, Zimbabwe's opposition MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai will not attend a summit of regional grouping SADC in Swaziland on Monday, a party spokesman said.
"He is not going. He was denied a passport," Movement for Democratic Change spokesman Ne
(SomaliNet) Saying Nigeria’s legal system is so faulty that innocent people may have been executed Amnesty International is calling on Nigeria to stop capital punishment..
Amnesty International, in a bulky report, lists scores of abuses in Nigeria. These include confessions extracted under tort
(SomaliNet) In heavy fighting that sent thousands of civilians fleeing, fighters of renegade General Laurent Nkunba have seized a major army camp in eastern Congo, rebels and UN officials say
According to refugees, an unknown number of soldiers, rebels and civilians have been killed.
Congoles
(SomaliNet) The United Nations says about 12 220 people have been infected with cholera in Guinea-Bissau and 201 have died from the disease.
Veronique Taveau, UNICEF spokesperson says the outbreak of cholera in the West African nation has proven exceptionally difficult to control.
Taveau says
(SomaliNet) Zimbabwe Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said on Saturday he was committed to a genuine power-sharing pact with President Robert Mugabe but would not be bullied into a government in which he would have little authority.
On September 15, Mugabe
(SomaliNet) Shell Gabon said Gabon oil unions began a strike on Sunday but a minority of workers observed the strike and it had little effect on operations after last-minute government concessions.
"The strike officially started at 0000 hours, but few of the personnel on site have followed it, as
(SomaliNet) When he makes his first trip to Africa since becoming head of the Roman Catholic Church in 2005, Pope Benedict said on Sunday he would visit Cameroon and Angola in March.
News sources say the Pope announced the trip during a sermon closing a synod of the world's Roman Catholic bishops
(SomaliNet) A television agency boss was on Sunday fined US$27 000 by an Egyptian court fined after his company broadcast images of food rioters tearing down portraits of President Hosni Mubarak in April.
The court fined Nader Gohar, who owns the Cairo News Company, 100 000 pounds for operating a
(SomaliNet) Benin's president said at the weekend that poor African countries should be invited to an international summit on the global financial crisis next month.
From November 7-9, Finance ministers and central bankers from the G20 group of industrialised and developing countries plan to meet
(SomaliNet) A summit is being held in Zimbabwean capital Harare on the political crisis gripping Zimbabwe after one week's delay.
A meeting scheduled for last week in Swaziland fell through because opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai failed to attend.
Tsvangirai was involved in a dispute wit
