ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - A newspaper editor in Ethiopia has been arrested after his publication reported that a local brewery firm sacked i.... .
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Hijackers who forced a Sudanese airliner to land in Libya have demanded fuel to fly on to Paris, Libya's state new.... .
The world may remember Zambia's President Levy Mwanawasa, who died aged 59 at a Paris hospital on Tuesday, as the African leader who d.... .
The general who led a coup in Mauritania last week has refused to rule out standing in elections planned by the country's new military .... .
KONSO, Ethiopia — Once, the farmers walked for hours to bring their sorghum and maize here to market. These days they trod the same .... .
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AFP) — Mauritania's prime minister Yahya Ould Ahmed Waghf was freed Monday, five days after being seized by t.... .
By Craig Timberg Washington Post Foreign Service JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 19 -- Five years after President Bush vowed to "turn the tide ag.... .
Russia says it has fulfilled a pledge to withdraw its combat troops from Georgia in line with a ceasefire deal ..... .
It is slightly better for Zimbabweans that Robert Mugabe has agreed to talk to the opposition, rather than sending his supporters to h.... .
