(SomaliNet) After Rupiah Banda was sworn in as president following a narrow victory over opposition leader Michael Sata, news media in Zambia urged calm on Monday.
Meanwhile, opposition Sata's Patriotic Front is alleging vote-rigging and threatening to file a legal challenge against Banda's victo
(SomaliNet) Zimbabwean central bank said on Monday that Zimbabwe will soon introduce higher denomination banknotes, of up to one million Zimbabwean dollars, in a bid to ease the effects of hyperinflation.
Zimbabwe trimmed 10 zeros off the currency on August 1, but it continues to lose value as in
(SomaliNet) Patriotic Front, Zambia's opposition said it would go to court on Tuesday to demand a recount of a presidential ballot in which centrist politician Rupiah Banda was elected by a narrow margin.
Michael Sata, opposition leader has branded the election, triggered by the death of Levy Mwa
(SomaliNet) A border official said Egypt opened its border with the Gaza Strip on Tuesday to allow students and people needing medical attention to leave the besieged Palestinian territory.
Adel Zurob, a Palestinian official at the crossing said about 4 600 people should be allowed to cross into
(SomaliNet) Police said on Tuesday that gunmen have kidnapped a prominent Nigerian doctor from his home in the southeastern Nigerian state of Anambra.
"Dr Tochukwu Mbachu, the Anambra state chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association, was abducted yesterday (Monday) by an unidentified gunmen," s
(SomaliNet) Police said on Tuesday that gunmen have kidnapped a prominent Nigerian doctor from his home in the southeastern Nigerian state of Anambra.
"Dr Tochukwu Mbachu, the Anambra state chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association, was abducted yesterday (Monday) by an unidentified gunmen," s
(SomaliNet) Michael Sata, Zambia's opposition leader on Tuesday again rejected ruling party Rupiah Banda's victory in last week's presidential by-election, setting the stage for a protracted political stand-off in the southern African country.
"I have not lost this election," Sata, 71, told South
(SomaliNet) As "one viable way forward" to get Zimbabawe out of its political crisis, Botswana President Ian Khama on Monday called for an internationally supervised rerun of the presidential poll in Zimbabwe.
"We strongly believe that the one viable way forward in Zimbabwe is to have a rerun of
(SomaliNet) Health officials said on Monday that about 40 people, mostly children, have died from cholera in Mozambique's central Manica province, and nine people have died from an outbreak of the disease in Zimbabwe's capital Harare.
"I can confirm that 40 people died from cholera in the past f
(SomaliNet) The first UN aid convoy has arrived in rebel-controlled North Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Meanwhile, tens of thousands of people have fled the fighting, many of them are hiding in the jungle.
Despite a ceasefire between Tutsi rebels and government forces, a
