20120804
AFP
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Friday paid tribute to a Ugandan human rights coalition working for gay rights, hours after a brief stop in Juba where she called for a compromise deal between the rival two Sudans.

20120804
AP
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton took off Thursday for the next stops in her seven-nation tour of Africa, flying across the continent from Senegal to Uganda and South Sudan for security talks with those countries' leaders.

20120803
AFP
Uganda on Friday denied backing insurgents in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo, a day after the UN Security Council called for "outside countries" to halt support for the rebellion.

20120802
AP
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — In veiled swipes at China's investments in Africa, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday urged African leaders to embrace democracy and partnerships with responsible foreign powers as a means to improving their living standards and addressing the root causes of extremism on the continent.

20120722
AFP
African Union experts and Senegal officials were on Saturday poring over how to organise the trial of Chad's former dictator Hissene Habre for crimes against humanity.

20120721
AFP
Senegal pledged Friday to put former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre on trial for crimes against humanity, after the International Court of Justice ruled he must be tried there or else be extradited to Belgium.

20120719
AFP
China said Thursday it would offer $20 billion in new loans to Africa, underscoring the relationship's growing importance, as Chinese companies agreed to operate more responsibly on the resource-rich continent.

20120715
AFP
African Union leaders opened their biannual summit on Sunday to discuss the continent's hotspots including DR Congo and Mali, although elections for the bloc's top job overshadowed the agenda.

2012-07-11
Xinhua
A total of 54 people died in the Mediterranean in an failed attempt to reach the Italian shores from Libya, bringing the death toll in such accidents to some 170 so far this year, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said on Tuesday.

20120630
AFP
A Mali-based Islamist group Friday claimed responsibility for a dawn attack against the regional headquarters of the paramilitary police in the centre of the Algerian town of Ouargla in which one person was killed and three were wounded.

20120626
AFP
Senegal's President Macky Sall said that Chad's ex-president Hissene Habre, accused of mass murder, will not be extradited to Belgium but tried in Senegal, in an interview published Monday.