Aaron Maasho

The ceasefire between South Sudan’s government and rebels will end months of violence and see the formation of a transitional government.

South Sudan’s rebels and a government delegation have begun peace talks in Ethiopia to try end fighting that has killed at least 1 000 people.

Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has died from a sudden infection while recovering from an undisclosed illness at a hospital in Belgium.

The countries still need to resolve key border security issues to end hostilities, a mediator from the African Union said on Saturday.

Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has won a tightly contested vote to become the new head of the African Union Commission – the first woman to hold the post.

Sudan and South Sudan signed a security agreement which aims to defuse tensions over oil payments which officials had warned could spark a war.

The World Bank’s vice-president for Africa says states should enhance inter-continental trade to fight off the impact of the eurozone crisis.

Four people, including two foreign tourists, have been kidnapped by gunmen, after an attack on a group in Ethopia’s Afar region.

Kenya will end its campaign against the al-Shabaab rebels in Somalia when it is satisfied it has stripped the group of its capacity to attack.

SA has bemoaned the suicide bomb attack that killed 70 people in Mogadishu, while Somalia’s Prime Minister urged aid workers not to stay away.

Across the Horn of Africa, a fierce drought is forcing more than 10-million people to rely on emergency food aid, up from a forecast of six-million.

Rasheed Hassan had to walk out on his son when he fled war in his native Somalia to go to neighbouring Ethiopia.

Libya wants the African Union to invoke a mutual defence pact to deal with Western air strikes that seek to "punish Africa … and colonise it again".

Côte d’Ivoire presidential claimant Allasane Ouattara rejected on Friday an African Union call to share power with defeated president Laurent Gbagbo.

Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo replaced Malawi’s leader as African Union chairperson on Sunday.