CAIRO - Three people were killed in Cairo, and 6 in Suez, as thousands of angry protesters clashed with security forces in Egypt's capital Cairo and other cities for a second day Friday over the...

African -American CEOs account for a mere one percent of the chiefs of the 500 largest companies in the US, a new study has revealed.

The study published in the current issue of the Academy of...

The Western Cape High Court has dismissed an application on the Dalai Lama's visa, claiming that it was too late to fix the past, the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) said on Friday.

Judge Elizabeth...

China has long adhered to a foreign policy of non-interventionism, where it tries to appear neutral in disputes outside its borders. As the country becomes more of a global power, however, it is less...

Uganda has signed two oil production agreements with an Anglo-Irish firm, Tullow oil. The agreements allow the company to finalize a long-delayed $2.9 billion asset sale to France's Total and China's...

The United Nations refugee agency says it is alarmed by reports of renewed atrocities committed against internally displaced Congolese. The UNHCR says it has reports of IDPs (internally displaced...

A coalition of human rights groups Thursday has appealed to the Obama administration to lead a cross-border aid operation into South Sudan to deliver much-needed food and medicine to the people of...

NAIROBI, Kenya - A good harvest and food aid inflows have improved the situation in Somalia, the United Nations said Friday declaring that the country is out of "famine" situation, while underlining...

In a new study, an international team of scientists pooled their radio observations into a database to produce the highest precision map to date of the magnetic field within our own Milky Way...

The United Nations is backing a mass vaccination campaign under way in northern Cameroon, where a new outbreak of yellow fever has killed at least seven people.

The vaccination campaign, which began...

The head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI) said today that he hopes to decide next week on the partial certification of parliamentary elections held in the West...

The United Nations declared an end to famine conditions in Somalia today, but warned that the crisis in the Horn of Africa is not over and requires continued efforts to restore food security and help...

For this group - some descended from U.S. slaves, some immigrants with a separate history - "African-American" is not the sign of progress hailed when the term was popularized in the late...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling ANC on Saturday upheld a decision to ban youth leader Julius Malema for five years for bringing the movement into disrepute, sending into the...

A black ribbon on the tie of Sudan's coach Mohamed Abdallah in solidarity with the victims of Port Said stadium in Egypt, as he holds his hand across his breast during a minutes silence at the...

TUNIS, (Reuters) Tunisia has started the procedure for withdrawing its recognition of the Syrian leadership under President Bashar al-Assad and for expelling the Syrian ambassador, the Tunisian...

Bata, Equatorial Guinea – Stoppila Sunzu, Christopher Katongo and James Chamanga scored as Zambia overcame 10-man Sudan 3-0 Saturday to reach the Africa Cup of Nations semi-finals after a...

BATA, Equatorial Guinea (AP) - Zambia became the first team to reach the African Cup of Nations semifinals after a 3-0 win over a Sudan team reduced to 10 players.
Zambia will next play on...

Bata - Zambia strode into the African Nations Cup semi-finals with a one-sided 3-0 win over Sudan to book a last four place for the first time in 16 years. They now await either Ghana or Tunisia as...

KHARTOUM, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- Tensions escalated between Sudan and South Sudan as the African Union's (AU) efforts failed to settle the oil dispute that has engaged the two sides since last July...

ADDIS ABABA, Jan, 30 (Xinhua) -- An election is scheduled for Monday for the top post of the African Union Commission (AUC) at the ongoing summit of African leaders in the Ethiopian capital Addis...

People protest past policemen following the removal of fuel subsidy by the Government in Lagos ,Nigeria, Monday, Jan. 9, 2012. Labor unions began a paralyzing national strike Monday in oil-rich...

An African Union soldier serving with the Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) stands guard in Mogadishu in December 2011. African Union troops in Somalia's war-torn capital will investigate an attack on...

A former colonel in Moamer Kadhafi's military has been appointed as the new chief of staff of the Libyan army, two members of the country's ruling National Transitional Council told AFP on...

KHARTOUM, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- Six crew members were killed when a military plane crashed Friday after taking off at an airport in western Sudan, the official news agency...

When will this cricket season please start? It is taking far too long to produce genuine cricket excitement. The HRV Cup had its moments but let's face it; that was domestic cricket. I was so excited...

The national government gave no names and provided few specifics. But a visitor doesn't have to spend much time in this province of 5 million people before seeing suspended or abandoned...

More than 100 people are missing, feared dead, after a ferry sank off the north-east coast of mainland Papua New Guinea (PNG) on Thursday morning. The MV Rabaul Queen was travelling from Kimbe, on...

A former Libyan diplomat who went over to the opposition National Transitional Council last year was detained and then tortured to death by a militia force based in the town of Zintan, according to a...

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A Tunisian official says the country has decided to expel Syria's ambassador in response to the "bloody massacre" in Homs.A source in the presidential...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's military has struck al Shabaab targets in one of the most devastating attacks against the al Qaeda-linked insurgents since it launched an operation in Somalia to...

PHOENIX, Arizona, February 4. THE February issue of Swimming World Magazine features an Olympic preview entitled Lane Lines to London, sponsored by Competitor Swim...

The Beijing government "will exert every possible pressure" on the southern Sudan to secure the release of the 29 workers of Sinohydro Corporation taken away by force on 29 January. But the...

In this photo taken Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012, school Pastor Zachariah Boulus stands next to a building in the compound of the Heiban Bible College, following a bombing on Wednesday, at the school...

NAIROBI, Kenya -; A Red Cross official says 25 people have died in western Kenya after a truck crashed into a minibus. Kenya Red Cross spokesman Fredrick Gori said Saturday that the Friday night...

NAIROBI, Kenya -; The United Nations said Friday that Somalia's famine is over, but the world body's Food and Agricultural Organization warned that continued assistance is needed to stop...