China pledged 10 billion dollars in concessional loans to African countries and promised to cancel all debts at the start of the two-day Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in Egypt.
The African Union has implemented travel and financial sanctions on members of Guinea's ruling junta. The US and EU had already imposed similar sanctions following the massacre of protesters in Conakry in September.
Families of Spanish sailors held hostage off Somalia have appealed to their government to negotiate with the pirates, who have threatened to kill three crew members.
Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai (pictured) suspended his boycott of a unity goverment deal with President Robert Mugabe that had paralysed the nation, but both leaders face a 30-day deadline to reach an accord.
Mohamed ElBaradei, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and outgoing head of the UN nuclear watchdog, has said in a television interview he would not rule out running for the presidency of his native Egypt.
Guinea's opposition has handed mediating Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore (pictured left) a plan for an interim government to replace the ruling junta within six months.
South Africa has cancelled a deal to buy eight Airbus A400M military transport planes due to hefty cost overruns and delivery delays, the government spokesman said Thursday."The cost escalation would have placed an unaffordable burden on the ...
Democratic Republic of Congo soldiers have "deliberately killed" more than 500 civilians since March during an operation targeting rebels in the country's east, Human Rights Watch has said.
Equatorial Guinea has granted amnesty to Britain's Simon Mann and South African Nick Du Toit, two mercenaries convicted for an attempted coup plot in March 2004, national radio announced Tuesday.
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The United Nations says it will suspend the operational support given to certain units of the DR Congo army fighting in the east of the country over the alleged murder of more than 60 civilians this year.
The snows capping Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's tallest peak, are shrinking rapidly and could vanish altogether in 20 years, most likely due to global warming, a US study published Monday said.The ice sheet that capped Kilimanjaro in 1912 was 85 ...
The president of South Sudan, Salva Kiir, backed independence for the semi-autonomous region Saturday in its upcoming referendum, warning that unity would make southerners "second class" citizens.
Ivory Coast's long-awaited presidential election will not be taking place next month as scheduled, the website of President Laurent Gbagbo has announced, signalling the latest in a string of postponements that have stretched over the past five years.
Somali pirates holding a British couple kidnapped from their yacht are asking for a ransom of seven million dollars (4.7 million euros) to set them free, Britain's Foreign Office has said.
African leaders have decided to impose sanctions on military-ruled Guinea in the wake of last month's massacre of scores of opposition supporters in the capital, Conakry, leaving the country increasingly isolated.
Enthusiastic Sudanese began on Sunday to register for Sudan's first presidential, legislative and regional elections in 24 years, with the authorities facing a tough logistical challenge.Due to be held in April, the ballot comes at a crucial time ...