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Despite Kenya’s fossils providing lessons of mankind’s origin, using remains to educate children may contradict religious and traditional teachings.
The collapse of a peace deal for troubled eastern DRC and the question of military intervention in Mali has dominated the latest AU summit.
Kenya is nervously awaiting an ICC ruling on whether to try six officials, including two presidential contenders, over deadly 2007-2008 poll unrest.
Rwanda President Paul Kagame secured another seven-year term on Wednesday after being declared landslide winner of the country’s election.
Senegal’s president urged African leaders on Monday to join forces in the fight against al-Qaeda’s North African branch.
African Union (AU) heads of state focused on rising tensions in oil-rich, secessionist southern Sudan on Monday.
UN chief Ban Ki-Moon on Sunday criticised power-grabs in Africa as Libya’s Moammar Gadaffi reluctantly handed over the presidency of the AU.
Nigeria’s main rebel group said it destroyed several major oil pipelines in the country early on Monday in response to a military offensive.
Thousands gathered on Friday around charred destruction from a deadly pipeline explosion as Nigerian firefighters doused flames triggered by the blast that had burnt for more…
Nigeria’s president-elect Umaru Yar’Adua on Tuesday faced a growing tide of discontent after being declared winner of a disputed poll that even the outgoing head of state…
Voting began on Saturday in Nigeria’s landmark presidential elections, hours after a failed attempt to blow up the electoral commission marred hopes of a trouble-free poll in the…
Three Croatians have become the latest foreigners to be kidnapped at gunpoint in Nigeria’s oil capital of Port Harcourt, industry sources said on Monday. Gunmen abducted the…
In a remote corner of southern Rwanda, Twa pygmies are fighting a losing battle against the modern realities of environmentalism that are robbing them of their traditions. They…
Huddled in a draughty football stadium, about 2Â 000 Rwandans braved hours of torrential rain to watch the screening of the latest movie on their country’s 1994 genocide,…
As King Kong trampled the holiday-season box office last week, Rwanda quietly remembered United States primatologist Dian Fossey, who put the film ape’s inspiration, the mountain…
With new hotels springing up and existing ones getting makeovers, Rwanda is trying to shake off once and for all its image as a land of state-sponsored killing and rivers of…
Pygmies in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) hope their country’s future Constitution will lead to improved living standards and security in their region.…
African Union leaders on Monday called on their fellow African nations to present a united front in their dealings with the rest of the world, and exhorted the rich nations of…
A dangerous humanitarian crisis is looming in the Democratic Republic of Congo with sharply increasing unrest in the Ituri region where nine United Nations soldiers were killed…
New fighting was reported on Sunday between the army and mutineers in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as the military said clashes in the area had killed at least…
