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Arms flow heightens Sudan war fears Khartoum, Sudan (UPI) Feb 5, 2009 
A swelling flow of arms, including heavy weapons, into southern Sudan ahead of national elections and a referendum on the south's independence is heightening fears that one of Africa's most savage civil wars is smoldering again.
Kenya, Sudan's southern neighbor, is seen as one of the main conduits for arms that are going to both sides, the Khartoum government in the Muslim Arab north, a ... read moreIslamists make gains in Somalia's war 
Mogadishu, Somalia (UPI) Feb 4, 2009 War-torn Somalia seems to be headed for a new spasm of bloodshed as al-Shebab, the main Islamist faction that is aligned with al-Qaida, has been strengthened by merging with one of its main militia rivals while another fell apart. This is likely to signal a new offensive by al-Shebab - short for Harakat al-Shebab al-Mujahedin, or Warrior Youth Movement - against the Transitional Fede ... more
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US warns China against 'stillborn' climate deal
Homes evacuated as Los Angeles braces for storm Snowbound US government freezes up on hot issues Eastern US braces for fresh snow blitz Swift help urged for Haiti's crucial weather forecasters Amnesty demands halt to Vedanta's India mine plans Two dead as storms, floods hit Turkey's south: report China says it has 6,000 captive tigers Baltic leaders under pressure to save sick sea China points to farms as major pollution risk 
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Algerian leader spars with security chiefs
Algiers, Algeria (UPI) Feb 3, 2009 President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is locked in a power struggle with his main intelligence service after it moved against some of his key political allies in an anti-corruption campaign on Jan. 12. Within days of launching the high-profile crackdown on graft, the Department du Renseignement et de la Securite placed Mohammed Meziane, chief executive of the state-owned oil giant Sonatrach, u ... more Mining firms sanctioned in DR.Congo over food production
Lubumbashi, Dr Congo (AFP) Feb 2, 2010Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo said Tuesday have slapped export bans on 16 mining companies, including firms from Belgium and China, for failing to grow food. Officials in Katanga province, in the southeast of the country, stipulate that firms must grow 500 hectares (1,235 acres) of staple crops to improve food supplies in the import-dependent area. Provincial governor M ... more African politics bestowed with Chinese feng shui
Addis Ababa (AFP) Jan 31, 2010China, often accused of being concerned only with Africa's oil, is building, free of charge, the edifice that will house the continent's political headquarters for decades to come. While China's ties with Africa are often characterised as a mad rush to secure resources to fuel its energy-hungry economy, the Asian giant is working on erecting the symbol that was missing for its relations with ... more UN force to stay in ICoast till late May to back polls 
United Nations (AFP) Jan 28, 2010The UN Security Council on Thursday voted unanimously to renew for four months the mandate of the UN force in Ivory Coast to help with upcoming presidential elections. The 15-member body adopted a French-drafted resolution that decides to renew the mandate of the force known as ONUCI until May 31, "in particular to support the organization... of free, fair, open and transparent elections." ... more |
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Uganda president pardons top Amin lieutenant
Kampala (AFP) Jan 22, 2010 Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has pardoned one of former leader Idi Amin Dada's top lieutenants who had been on death row since 1987, a spokesman said Friday. Museveni, who has been at the helm of the east African nation since 1986, even shook hands with Ali Fadhul, a man he claims to have nearly killed almost four decades ago. "It is part of our healing process," presidential spokes ... more Nigeria's religious wars flare again 
Lagos, Nigeria (UPI) Jan 19, 2009 Religious violence has flared again in northern Nigeria after Islamists torched a Roman Catholic church packed with worshippers, deepening the multiple crises plaguing the strategic but increasingly unstable African state. The long-running sectarian conflict, a simmering insurgency in the southern oil fields of the Niger Delta, rampant corruption and poverty, and a frenzy of intrigue by ... more Nokia urges mobile developers to focus on poor nations 
Las Vegas, Nevada (AFP) Jan 8, 2010Nokia chief executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo praised the mobile phone on Friday as a history-changing tool and challenged developers to create programs for poor countries. "These little devices have done more to improve people's lives than perhaps any technology in history," the head of the Finnish mobile phone giant said in a keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) here. ... more Sudan's Beshir quits army to run again for presidency
Khartoum (AFP) Jan 11, 2010Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir announced on Monday that he is stepping down as head of the army in accordance with electoral law so that he can stand for re-election in April polls. "President Beshir has relinquished his functions as chief of the armed forces. He will also retire as an officer," his spokesman Emad Said Ahmed told AFP, adding that the president had not yet named named a ... more |
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