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After facing years of poverty and conflict, Mozambicans are voting with hopes of their country tapping into its huge energy resources.
Many Africans feel America is lagging behind China and others in its engagement with their continent.
Escalating conflict, splitting tribes and families, is dividing Nigeria’s largely Muslim north and Christian south and its future as a unified state.
SA has expelled three Rwandan diplomats linked to a raid on an exiled general’s Johannesburg home while Rwanda reacted by ordering out six SA envoys.
Clashes between rival party supporters and police have spurred tension ahead of local elections that will test opposition to the Frelimo government.
A continental defence force dreamed of half a century ago by the founding fathers of independent Africa still exists only on paper.
Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos and his MPLA party headed on Saturday for an overwhelming win in a poll criticised as not credible.
The IMF says it is ready to discuss working with Malawi to try to get its stalled IMF aid programme back on track.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s emotional homecoming from a convalescence in Cuba after cancer surgery is the latest theatrical twist of a showman.
Haiti’s ex-dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier says "solidarity" led him to return to his homeland where his name is still reviled by many.
Tiger Woods said on Friday he would take an indefinite break from professional golf, admitting he cheated on his wife.
Mexico’s flu outbreak appeared to be easing with a fall in serious cases, but world health officials warned the virus could still become a pandemic.
The next time you grab a handful of cashew nuts, think that you may be holding the economic heartbeat of one tiny West African state in your hand.
A hit-and-run offensive by rebels in Chad has tested the strength and neutrality of a European Union military force deployed to protect refugees.
Africa’s cocoa makes the world’s chocolate, its fish, fruit and vegetables reach tables around the globe and its oil powers vehicles and factories from China to the United…
A convicted rapist was arrested on Monday on suspicion of molesting a seven-year-old boy in KwaThema near Springs, Johannesburg police said. ”A young boy of about seven-years-old…
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir was due to attend a rescheduled peace accord signing with Chad’s President Idriss Déby Itno on Thursday after failing to show up on…
Senegal wants the international community to guarantee a peace accord between Chad and Sudan to end years of conflict between the two feuding neighbours, President Abdoulaye Wade…
Most African leaders on Sunday rejected new trade deals demanded by the European Union, dealing a blow to efforts to forge a new economic partnership at the first European Union…
The sight of frightened, bewildered children torn from their homes by wars or poverty is one of the most recurring and haunting faces of Africa. But the case of 103 African…
