Pirates hijacked three ships off the coast of Somalia Thursday in the "worst number of attacks" in one day in many years, an international maritime watchdog has told CNN.
Two car bombings in eastern Algeria killed at least 11 people Wednesday -- a day after a blast near a military school in a neighboring region claimed 43 lives.
Algerian state radio says twin car bombings at a hotel and military headquarters southeast of Algiers have killed 11 people and wounded 31 others.
Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa died Tuesday at a hospital in Paris nearly two months after suffering a stroke, Zambian and French officials confirmed. He was 59.
A large fire erupted Tuesday in Egypt's parliament, and five people were hospitalized for smoke inhalation, officials said.
An attack on a military school in Algeria killed 43 people and wounded another 38 on Tuesday, the interior ministry said.
Natalie du Toit looked like any other athlete when she walked into the Bird's Nest, carrying the South African flag at the opening ceremonies.
A suicide car bombing targeting an Algerian police academy has killed at least 43 people and injured 38, the Algerian Interior Ministry said Tuesday.
The United Nations' World Food Program on Monday expressed its shock at the "senseless and barbaric" killing of an aid worker in southern Somalia.
Pirates hijacked three ships off the coast of Somalia Thursday in the "worst number of attacks" in one day in many years, an international maritime watchdog has told CNN.
Two car bombings in eastern Algeria killed at least 11 people Wednesday -- a day after a blast near a military school in a neighboring region claimed 43 lives.
Algerian state radio says twin car bombings at a hotel and military headquarters southeast of Algiers have killed 11 people and wounded 31 others.
Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa died Tuesday at a hospital in Paris nearly two months after suffering a stroke, Zambian and French officials confirmed. He was 59.
A large fire erupted Tuesday in Egypt's parliament, and five people were hospitalized for smoke inhalation, officials said.
An attack on a military school in Algeria killed 43 people and wounded another 38 on Tuesday, the interior ministry said.
Natalie du Toit looked like any other athlete when she walked into the Bird's Nest, carrying the South African flag at the opening ceremonies.
A suicide car bombing targeting an Algerian police academy has killed at least 43 people and injured 38, the Algerian Interior Ministry said Tuesday.
The United Nations' World Food Program on Monday expressed its shock at the "senseless and barbaric" killing of an aid worker in southern Somalia.
A summit of regional leaders in South Africa ended Sunday with no agreement to end Zimbabwe's political crisis.
Zimbabwe's opposition chief wants to be a powerful prime minister, but would leave the presidency -- and command of the military -- to Robert Mugabe to end his country's protracted political crisis.
Ethiopian forces in Somalia have killed at least 46 civilians after a roadside bomb ripped through their military convoy, residents said.
African leaders gathered for a weekend summit in South Africa on Saturday as hundreds protested nearby, angry at the inclusion of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe.
Talks between Zimbabwe's political rivals will resume Friday afternoon and continue on the fringes of this weekend's regional summit in Johannesburg, George Sibotshiwe, the spokesman for Zimbabwe's opposition leader, said Friday.
Libya will pay hundreds of millions of dollars to victims of terrorist attacks involving Americans in an agreement signed and finalized Thursday, the U.S. State Department said.
Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai had his passport briefly confiscated at Harare's airport Thursday, delaying his trip to a regional conference in South Africa, a spokesman for his party said.
Nigeria on Thursday officially handed over to Cameroon full ownership of a peninsula that nearly ignited a border war between the two neighboring African nations.
The military junta that led last week's coup in Mauritania has appointed a former ambassador to the post of prime minister.
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Josh Macabuag is in Jozini, South Africa, where he will be working with the charity Engineers Without Borders (EWB).
Embattled Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe signed a power-sharing deal with the opposition party's breakaway faction, his party said Tuesday, though Mugabe's opponents denied the claim.
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai returned to power-sharing negotiations Monday afternoon with several "sticking points" left to resolve.
It's late Sunday morning inside a cavernous Salvation Army Church in Soweto, South Africa. Services, complete with African and traditional music, have just finished and a catchy drum beat with a distinctly American hip-hop sound is coming from the stage.
After several hours of power-sharing negotiations, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai adjourned the talks early Monday -- apparently without reaching a deal.
Explosives packed into a vehicle detonated outside a police station in northern Algeria, killing eight civilians and wounding eight others, the national radio said Sunday.
A power-sharing deal between Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is just "one or two sticking points" away, sources close to the negotiations said Saturday.
Police on Friday arrested the head of a federal agency charged with developing Nigeria's impoverished southern oil region after allegations that the man spent millions of dollars on a witch doctor in hopes vanquishing a rival.
Kenyans observed a minute of silence Thursday to mark the 10 year anniversary of al Qaeda terrorists bombing the U.S. embassy in the capital of Nairobi, killing more than 200 people and wounding 5,000.
Power-sharing talks between Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai have been postponed until Sunday, a Tsvangirai spokesman said.
An estimated 125,000 Western lowland gorillas are living in a swamp in equatorial Africa, researchers reported Tuesday, double the number of the endangered primates thought to survive worldwide.
Army officers upset with the president's overtures toward Islamic hard-liners staged a coup in Mauritania on Wednesday, overthrowing the first government to be freely elected in this sprawling desert nation in more than 20 years.
France on Wednesday said accusations by Rwanda that French politicians and military officials helped prepare and carry out the 1994 Rwandan genocide are "unacceptable."
Egyptian scientists will carry out DNA tests on two mummified fetuses found in the tomb of King Tutankhamun to determine their link to the young pharaoh, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities said in a statement Wednesday.
Rwanda accused senior French officials Tuesday of involvement in the 1994 genocide that killed 800,000 people, naming late President Francois Mitterrand and former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin among others.
A South African judge said Tuesday he would rule Sept 12 whether to dismiss fraud and corruption charges against president-in-waiting Jacob Zuma.
Lawyers for Jacob Zuma, president of the African National Congress, urged judges Monday to declare Zuma's prosecution on corruption charges unlawful.
A roadside bombing in Somalia's capital killed 21 women who were cleaning rubbish from a southern Mogadishu street on Sunday morning, a hospital official said.
The United Nations Security Council Thursday passed a resolution to extend its peacekeeping mission in Darfur despite U.S. complaints about the resolution.
The United Nations is worried that a booming drugs trade in West Africa could spark new violence and erase some of the stability the region has gained after years of war and strife, an official said Thursday.
The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously Wednesday to end its eight-year peacekeeping mission between Eritrea and Ethiopia.
This time last year, Janet Kimani spent her days at school and her nights fighting with her little brothers over what to watch on the family's flickering TV set.
A Darfur advocacy group complained Wednesday that nations aren't doing enough to help the U.N. peacekeeping mission for the stricken Sudanese region, urging them to provide helicopters and other equipment needed to protect civilians.
A man who terrified a small rural community for months was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for committing a series of rapes and imprisoning a teenage girl and his own young daughter for 15 months in an underground pit.
Zimbabwe will knock 10 zeros off the country's hyper-inflated currency next month, making 10 billion dollars one dollar, the nation's central bank governor said Wednesday.
South African President Thabo Mbeki is heading to Zimbabwe for talks with the country's president and the head of an opposition faction, the South African government announced Wednesday.
Power-sharing talks between Zimbabwe's president and main opposition candidate are continuing and going "very well," South African President Thabo Mbeki said Tuesday after reports that the two sides had deadlocked.
A former dormitory matron at Oprah Winfrey's school for poor South African girls pleaded innocent Tuesday to charges that she indecently assaulted and otherwise abused six teenagers and a fellow matron at the academy.
Royal Dutch Shell said Tuesday that it may not be able to meet its oil supply obligations in Nigeria after an attack on its major pipeline.
Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has been offered a vice presidency position in the country's government, according to a source close to negotiations between the two sides.
A rebel group in Nigeria said it sabotaged two oil pipelines in southern Nigeria on Monday.
Eight foreign oil workers were released unharmed Saturday, hours after being kidnapped at gunpoint by six men in a speedboat, a Nigerian military spokesman said.
Officials say a motorized boat has sunk in Congo, killing at least 47 people. At least 100 people are missing.
Security sources say five crew members have been abducted from a Swedish boat in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger delta region.
President Bush signed an executive order Friday expanding U.S. sanctions against Zimbabwe, the White House said.
The United States is in the process of strengthening sanctions against individual Zimbabweans blamed for deadly electoral violence, the U.S. Embassy in Zimbabwe said Friday.
A Nigerian militant group issued a statement Wednesday saying it will destroy major oil pipelines "within the next 30 days" to disassociate itself from a government pipeline protection deal.
Sudan's president says he would not be cowed by his indictment on genocide charges nor allow it to distract him from the search for peace in troubled Darfur.
A Zimbabwean journalist has won the prestigious CNN-sponsored African Journalist of the Year competition for an uncompromising documentary examining his troubled country's struggle against HIV-AIDS.
The International Criminal Court announced this week it is seeking an arrest warrant against Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir.
European Union foreign ministers agreed Tuesday to increase sanctions against Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's supporters to keep pressure on him to agree to share power with the opposition.
Zimbabwe's president and his main political rival have signed an agreement for formal talks.
The African Union will ask the U.N. Security Council to suspend action for a year on the indictment of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on Darfur genocide charges, Nigeria's foreign affairs minister said on Monday.
Talks to end Zimbabwe's election crisis have hit a snag following the opposition leader's refusal to sign a framework agreement, an opposition party member said Thursday.
Zimbabwe's president and opposition leader will sign an agreement setting the terms for talks to form a unity government, South Africa's foreign affairs spokesman said Monday.
Zimbabwe's troubled central bank introduced $100 billion banknotes Saturday in a desperate bid to ease the recurrent cash shortages plaguing the inflation-ravaged economy.
Nelson Mandela, anti-apartheid icon, Nobel peace laureate and South Africa's first black president, celebrated his 90th birthday Friday by doing something he had indicated he would not do again -- grant an interview to journalists.
The migration of more than a million wildebeest between Kenya and Tanzania is one of the wonders of the natural world. Tourists from around the globe have flocked to Kenya to witness the herds streaming across the savanna and over the Mara River.
Official inflation soared to 2.2 million percent in Zimbabwe -- by far the highest in the world -- and has shot as high as 70 million percent in the past year for some basic goods sold on the black market, the state central bank said Thursday.
Another U.N. peacekeeper has been killed in the Darfur region of Sudan, the United Nations said Wednesday.
A train plowed into three vehicles in a northern Egyptian town on Wednesday, killing at least 40 people and injuring 50, a police official said.
A police sting in Gabon brought down a ring of grave robbers suspected of selling human skulls to makers of traditional medicines and amulets, officials said Wednesday.
It was a frigid June night at Pickstone Mine in Zimbabwe when 67-year-old Angela Campbell -- soaking wet, her arm broken and a gun to her head -- signed a document vowing to give up the fight for her family's farm.
President Bush and his international policy team pushed on all fronts Tuesday to increase pressure on Zimbabwe's government after an attempt to impose U.N. sanctions on the regime failed last week.
Human rights activists said Tuesday they feared a move by the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to file genocide charges against Sudan's president could provoke a violent backlash.
Gunmen in Somalia have shot dead an agent for a World Food Program transport company, the U.N. agency said Tuesday.
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has filed genocide charges against Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for a five-year campaign of violence in the country's Darfur region. CNN's Nic Robertson explains what is likely to happen next:
A judge in Zimbabwe has cleared 14 opposition party members who were facing charges of inciting political violence, the Movement for Democratic Change said.
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has filed genocide charges against Sudan's president for a five-year campaign of violence in Darfur.
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court is seeking the arrest of Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on charges of genocide in a five-year campaign of violence in the country's Darfur region. Luis Moreno-Ocampo spoke exclusively to CNN's Nic Robertson ahead of his announcement on Monday of the charges.
Sudan's ruling party issued a statement Sunday predicting "more violence and blood" in Darfur if the country's president is indicted for crimes against humanity and genocide, state media reported.
He wore a trendy black shirt just like many of the kids in the crowd. But Nelson Mandela moved slowly, leaning on his wife and on a white cane, as he crossed the stage to adoring cheers.
Facing a possible arrest warrant for genocide, Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir got a show of support Sunday as he arrived for an emergency meeting of his cabinet.
Sudan has asked for an emergency meeting of Arab foreign ministers ahead of the expected indictment of the country's president for genocide and crimes against humanity in Darfur, according to reports.
Three aid workers have been shot over the last day in Somalia, two of them fatally, Somali media reports said.
Three aid workers have been shot over the last day in Somalia, two of them fatally, Somali media reports said.
Russia has reacted angrily to comments made by U.S. and British officials who criticized Moscow's veto of U.N. sanctions against Zimbabwe.
Russia is venting anger over comments made by U.S. and British officials who have criticized Moscow's veto of U.N. sanctions against Zimbabwe.
Russia and China vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution Friday that would have imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe's longtime president, Robert Mugabe, and 11 senior members of his government.
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir may be charged with genocide by the International Criminal Court.
Talks aimed at finding a resolution to Zimbabwe's election dispute began in South Africa on Thursday, according to Ronnie Mamoepa, spokesman for the South African Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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Seven members of a joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping patrol have been killed by a heavily armed militia group in Sudan's Darfur region, the U.N. said.
Pirates have released a German cargo ship and its crew of 14 after holding them for nearly six weeks, the vessel's owner said Wednesday.
A prosecutor has said a Rwandan accused of involvement in his country's 1994 genocide has been arrested in Frankfurt, and German authorities are considering his extradition to Rwanda.
Gunmen in southern Somalia have killed a truck driver carrying relief supplies for the World Food Programme -- the fourth WFP driver killed in Somalia this year, the U.N. aid agency said Wednesday.
Kenya's finance minister has resigned after being named in a corruption scandal that threatened to damage the nation's fragile new unity government, Prime Minister Raila Odinga announced.
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