(BBC) A deadline for Darfur rebels and Sudan's government to finalise a peace deal is unlikely to be met, amid a rebel split.
Africa Archives
March 15, 2010
March 11, 2010
Polling Darfur
(BBC) Can an election be held in a land of refugees?
Nigeria survivors describe massacre
(BBC) Survivors of violence in central Nigeria on Sunday have been telling the BBC what happened.
Gambia row over wave of arrests
An opposition leader criticises a wave of arrests in The Gambia, saying detainees do not know why they are being held.
March 8, 2010
Tear gas fired at Togo protesters
Togo police use tear gas to disperse protesters angry at Saturday's election result, which returned President Faure Gnassingbe to power.
March 3, 2010
Aid call after Uganda landslide
(BBC) Uganda's Red Cross launches an appeal to help survivors of mudslides which swept away three eastern villages.
'Irregularities' in Togo election
Togo's main opposition party claims widespread irregularities in the country's presidential election.
March 2, 2010
Forgotten children
(BBC) A heartbreaking glimpse of life for Zimbabwe's youth
March 1, 2010
Niger gets interim government
(BBC) The military in Niger names a transitional government with renewed promises of elections, 10 days after taking over in a coup.
February 28, 2010
'Broken society'
(BBC) The Rainbow Nation's gangs and drugs blight
February 25, 2010
Sarkozy in landmark Rwanda visit
(BBC) French President Nicolas Sarkozy is due to visit Rwanda, in the first visit of its kind since the 1994 genocide.
February 23, 2010
Foreign Agro Firms Scoop Up Ethiopian Farmland
(VOA) The Green Revolution that ended food shortages in parts of the world decades ago may be coming to East Africa, bringing the promise of bountiful harvests in a region more often associated with drought and famine.
February 19, 2010
Rights Groups Demand Protection of Gays in Kenya
(VOA) A human rights watchdog says it is alarmed over reports of increasing vigilante violence in Kenya against people accused of homosexual conduct and groups offering HIV/AIDS services.
February 18, 2010
Military coup ousts Niger leader
(BBC) Coup plotters in Niger seize the president after a gun battle in the capital, Niamey, and suspend the country's constitution.
UN says US aid restrictions hurting hungry Somalis
(AP) NAIROBI, Kenya — U.S. restrictions designed to stop terrorists in Somalia from diverting aid are hurting humanitarian operations in the lawless Horn of Africa country, U.N. officials said Wednesday.
Watchdog says Human Rights Abuse on the Rise in DRC
(VOA) A new report published by the international-watchdog Amnesty International says human-rights abuses are escalating in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
February 15, 2010
Kenya faces political 'meltdown'
(BBC) Wrangling within Kenya's coalition government is undermining its fight against corruption, a lobbying group warns.
February 14, 2010
Two Kenyan ministers suspended
(BBC) Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Odinga suspends the ministers of agriculture and education amid allegations of corruption.
February 12, 2010
Ivory Coast government dissolved
(BBC) Ivory Coast's president dismisses the government and electoral commission, casting doubt on long-delayed elections.
February 9, 2010
New acting president for Nigeria
(BBC) Nigeria's Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan becomes acting president in place of ailing leader Umaru Yar'Adua.
February 5, 2010
Uganda gay bill 'will be changed'
(BBC) Uganda's controversial Anti-Homosexuality Bill is likely to be changed, a minister tells the BBC.
February 4, 2010
Who owns what?
(BBC) Zimbabwe land audit blocked by Mugabe allies
January 26, 2010
Liberia leader 'to stand again'
(BBC) Liberia's President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf says she intends to seek re-election, despite promises to only serve one term.
January 21, 2010
Angola stops presidential polls
Angola's parliament approves a new constitution which abolishes direct presidential elections.
Nigeria riot city's curfew eased
(BBC) Nigeria's army says the riot-hit city of Jos is under control after days of Muslim-Christian fighting left scores dead.
January 19, 2010
Israel resumes Ethiopian airlifts
(BBC) Israel restarts an immigration scheme for Ethiopians of Jewish descent after halting it for more than a year.
All-day curfew over Nigeria riots
(BBC) Nigerian authorities order residents of the central city of Jos to stay indoors after fighting resumes between rival gangs.
January 18, 2010
Somali pirates free Greek tanker
(BBC) Somali pirates free a Greek-owned oil tanker, a day after one of the largest ransoms ever paid was dropped on board, the pirates and officials say.
January 12, 2010
In pictures
(BBC) Saving elephants from AK47s and hacksaws in Chad
January 11, 2010
'Hate-cleric' returned to Kenya
(BBC) Nigeria sends controversial Jamaican-born Muslim cleric Abdullah al-Faisal back to Kenya, days after Nairobi deported him.
January 7, 2010
Agencies warn of Sudan war risk
(BBC) Aid groups say Sudan's 2005 peace deal is on the verge of collapse and the world must act now to prevent fresh conflict.
January 5, 2010
Somali militants force WFP exit
(BBC) The UN's World Food Programme suspends its operations in large parts of southern Somali because of threats from Islamist militants.
January 3, 2010
Fire guts parts of Ghana market
(BBC) Fire destroys parts of one of Africa's biggest markets - at Kumasi in Ghana - the second fire there in less than a year.
January 2, 2010
Volcano erupts in eastern Congo
(BBC) Lava from an erupting volcano in a sparsely populated area of DR Congo threatens rare chimpanzees, officials say.
December 30, 2009
Malawi gay couple deny indecency
(BBC) Two gay men, arrested after getting engaged in Malawi, deny three charges of gross public indecency.
December 22, 2009
Cash for Liberia whistle-blowers
(BBC) Liberia's president issues a decree to pay and protect whistle-blowers as part of her campaign to tackle corruption.
December 18, 2009
Dutch to release Somali 'pirates'
(BBC) A group of suspected Somali pirates held on a Dutch warship will be freed because no country wants to prosecute them.
December 16, 2009
UN ends criticised Congo campaign
(BBC) The UN envoy to DR Congo says a controversial anti-rebel offensive will be concluded at the end of this month.
December 15, 2009
Uproar at S Leone woman chief bid
BBC) Sierra Leone traditionalists besiege a woman's house and stop her going home after she launched a legal bid to become a chief.
December 14, 2009
Rwanda journalist jailed for life
(BBC) A Rwandan journalist who encouraged Hutus to slaughter Tutsis during the 1994 genocide is jailed for life.
Sudan police tear-gas protesters
(BBC) Sudanese police fire tear gas at crowds protesting at the lack of democratic reform before crucial votes in the next two years.
Bush birth control policies helped fuel Africa's baby boom
(McClatchy) SIRAKANO, Uganda — At age 45, after giving birth to 13 children in her village of thatch roofs and bare feet, Beatrice Adongo made a discovery that startled her: birth control.
December 13, 2009
Sudan reaches referendum deal
(BBC) The leaders of Sudan and of its semi-autonomous southern region say they have reached a deal on the terms of a key referendum.
December 10, 2009
Guinea's junta accuses France
(BBC) Guinea's military rulers say French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner was involved in a plot to kill junta leader Moussa Dadis Camara.
December 9, 2009
Nigerian police 'killing at will'
(BBC) Nigerian police are carrying out a shocking level of disappearances and extrajudicial killings, Amnesty says after a three-year probe.
Africa drug trade 'fuels unrest'
(BBC) A top UN official warns that widespread drug trafficking is transforming Africa into a major crime hub.
December 8, 2009
Nigeria police overwhelm morgue
(BBC) A hospital in Enugu, Nigeria, tells the BBC it is conducting mass burials to cope with the number of corpses brought in by police.
December 7, 2009
South Africa to cut carbon by 34%
South Africa says it will reduce its greenhouse gases by 34% by 2020 but wants financial aid to do so.
December 4, 2009
'Landslide' for E Guinea leader
(BBC) President Teodor Obiang Nguema of Equatorial Guinea is re-elected with 95% of the vote, officials say.
December 3, 2009
Explosion kills Somali ministers
A blast at a graduation ceremony in the Somali capital Mogadishu kills at least seven people, including government ministers.
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