20110104
reuters

A Kenyan Industrialization Minister Henry Kosgey named as one of six suspects accused of organizing the 2007-08 post-election violence by the International Criminal Court has resigned from active duty over corruption allegations.

20101231
reuters

N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Chad's election monitoring committee sacked the head of the electoral commission, according to a letter obtained by Reuters on Thursday, amid allegations he manipulated preparations for upcoming elections.

20101228
reuteres

TUNIS (Reuters) - President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali warned on Tuesday that violent protests were unacceptable and would hit jobs and tourism after protests by graduates demanding work and what they called an end to corruption.

20101220
africanews

Disgruntled fans of Lubumbashi-based club of TP Mazembe took to the streets and attacked Chinese-run businesses after the Crows were humiliated in a 3-0 defeat to Italian side Inter Milan in the final of the Club World Cup.

20101218
Garowe Online

A months-long dispute among senior members of Somali insurgent group Al Shabaab took a worse turn Saturday when a senior commander condemned the group's top chief, Radio Garowe reports.

20101213
reuters

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Japan's Kansai Paint offered to buy all the shares it does not own in South Africa's Freeworld Coatings, a $262 million bid that could potentially lead to a hostile takeover.

20101213
reuters

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya will scale back its efforts to stem the flow of illegal migrants from Africa to Europe unless the European Union pays it 5 billion euros a year, a government minister said on Monday.

20101203
Financial Gazette

PRESSURE is being brought to bear on Zimbabwe's top leadership to reconsider the decision to go to the polls next year in order to give the country's economy sufficient time to recuperate after a decade of a record-breaking recession while at the same time nursing the polarisation dividing its people in what has rendered the 2011 plebiscite doubtful.

20101120
africanews

More than 100 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood group were arrested across Egypt on Friday ahead of november 28 legislative elections, AFP said. Hamdy Hassan, spokesman for the Brotherhood's parliamentary bloc, confirmed the arrest of over 100 Brotherhood supporters from different cities.

20101119
UN News

Some two million children in Uganda will be targeted in a United Nations-backed immunization campaign beginning on Saturday after an outbreak of polio was detected in the country last month.

20101118
IWPR

With the war crimes trial of Jean-Pierre Bemba due to start in the Hague next week, it seems unlikely that he will run in the 2011 elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC - but the former vice-president continues to exert a large amount of political influence in the country.

20101119
africanews

Families occupying barracks housing a unit of dissident army officers ordered to desert the place. The Madagascar government served notice on Friday morning that it wanted to avoid any bloodshed. The officers, who said they had taken over the island nation two days ago, are holed up in the barracks near the airport of the capital Antananarivo.

20101112
africanews

Four people including two West Africans have been arrested in the United Kingdom for immigration offences, UK Border Agency official said. The arrest follows a raid by officers targeting contract cleaners working illegally at Hamleys toy store on Regent Street in central London.

20101109
africanews

Guinea's national election body CENI said the results of the West African country's presidential runoff election held on Sunday could take five days to emerge as against three days required by law. This means results due for Wednesday may now wait till Friday.

20101108
africanews

Five crew members of Afren, an offshore oil rig firm in Nigeria have been kidnapped by gunmen in the country injuring two others, the company said on Monday.

20101108
africanews

Ivory Coast ex-President Henri Konan Bédié who finished third with 25% vote, called on his supporters and sympathisers to vote for Alassane Ouattara, former Prime Minister and candidate to face off against incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo in a second round run-off slated for Nov.21.

20101102
africanews

The Chairman of Kenya's Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC), Mr Bethwel Kiplagat has stepped aside to allow a tribunal to investigate allegations levelled against him. Mr Kiplagat becomes the third high profile figure to lose his position in less than a month.

20101102
africanews

A Tanzanian court has jailed Daudi Gindishi, 41, three years in prison after he was convicted of voting twice during general elections on Sunday. The Maswa district court has said the penalty should be a lesson to other people with similar habits. Local media reported the judgment happened on Monday.

20101102
africanews

Nigerian artists, P-Squre has dominated the nominations list for the 2010 MTV Africa Music Awards with Zain (MAMA), according to the press release from TV Networks Africa and Zain.

20101030
africanews

Morocco communications ministry has suspended the operations of the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television news channel in Rabat and withdrawn the accreditations of its staff.