Mutinous soldiers have strengthened their hold on the northern half of Ivory Coast by taking control of a third city, local media reported on Saturday.
FLOODS and mudslides caused by torrential rains in Kenya have killed 46 people and injured eight others in the past two weeks.
The US Agency for International Development has granted Kenya ,2-million to promote economic growth and democracy, following agreements signed here on Monday.
The Zimbabwean army was expected to begin its final withdrawal of troops from Congo on Friday as US President George Bush prepared to meet in New York with key leaders involved in Congo’s four-year-long war.
LARGE development projects like dams and reservoirs around Africa’s mountain areas could trigger earthquakes, volcanoes and landslides, a leading South African geologist said on Tuesday.
Kenya, without donor aid, will enter into heavy domestic borrowing to bridge a four-percent budget deficit.
Kenya’s opposition parties, for years crippled by self-inflicted divisions, have promised tens of thousands of chanting supporters they will join forces to break the ruling party’s 39-year hold on power.
Sudan’s SPLM/A rebels on Saturday claimed seven children have been injured in a bombing attack by government planes.
The new head of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Supachai Panitchpakdi, on Friday admitted that the powerful global body was partly to blame for some of the world’s social ills.