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UN reports over 500 rapes in eastern Congo
(AP)
AP - The United Nations reported Tuesday that more than 500 systematic rapes were committed by armed combatants in eastern Congo since late July — more than double the number previously reported — and accepted partial responsibility for not protecting citizens.
09/07/2010 - 09:01 PM
Suspected Islamists attack prison in Nigeria: authorities
(AFP)
 AFP - Suspected members of an Islamist sect that launched an uprising last year attacked a prison in northern Nigeria on Tuesday, officials said, sparking a fierce gun battle with authorities.
09/07/2010 - 05:58 PM
Death toll at Darfur camp rises to nine, U.N. says
(Reuters)
 Reuters - The death toll from weekend clashes at a refugee camp in Sudan's violence-torn Darfur region has risen to nine, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
09/07/2010 - 05:18 PM
Nigeria: Assault ends at prison holding extremists
(AP)
AP - Gunmen launched a massive attack Tuesday night against a northern Nigerian prison holding suspected members of a radical Muslim sect, authorities said, apparently leaving some people dead and allowing some inmates to escape.
09/07/2010 - 04:39 PM
Nigerian presidential vote scheduled for January 22
(AFP)
 AFP - Nigeria will hold its presidential ballot on January 22, officials said Tuesday, leaving little time to prepare in Africa's most populous nation, where elections have regularly been plagued by fraud.
09/07/2010 - 04:11 PM
Nigeria to hold presidential election on Jan. 22
(AP)
AP - Nigeria will hold its presidential election in January, giving the oil-rich nation only four months to register voters and untangle its notoriously corrupt electoral system.
09/07/2010 - 03:00 PM
Nigeria sets presidential poll for Jan 22
(Reuters)
Reuters - Nigeria will hold presidential polls on January 22, the electoral commission said on Tuesday, putting pressure on President Goodluck Jonathan to say whether he will stand and leaving little time for badly-needed reforms.
09/07/2010 - 02:59 PM
ElBaradei calls for Egypt election boycott: report
(AFP)
 AFP - Mohamed ElBaradei, the former UN nuclear chief turned Egyptian reformer, has called for a boycott of upcoming elections and warned of civil disobedience if demands for political reform are not met, an independent daily reported on Tuesday.
09/07/2010 - 01:27 PM
Mozambique scales back price hikes after deadly unrest
(AFP)
 AFP - Mozambique on Tuesday rolled back price increases for bread, water and electricity, hoping to soothe public outrage that erupted in three days of deadly rioting last week.
09/07/2010 - 12:47 PM
Gabon leader slams UN report on DRCongo atrocities
(AFP)
 AFP - Gabon President Ali Bongo during a visit here Tuesday slammed the UN for drafting a report on war crimes allegedly committed by Rwanda in DRCongo without first visiting or consulting Kigali.
09/07/2010 - 12:42 PM
South Sudan names official opposition leader
(AFP)
 AFP - South Sudan?s parliament on Tuesday named as official leader of the opposition a member of the breakaway Sudan People?s Liberation Movement-Democratic Change, an offshoot from the ruling SPLM party.
09/07/2010 - 11:53 AM
Mozambique scales back bread price hikes
(AFP)
 AFP - Mozambique will reverse an increase in the price of bread that sparked deadly rioting last week, and restore some subsidies for electricity and water, the planning minister said Tuesday.
09/07/2010 - 11:01 AM
Mozambique government reverses bread price hike
(AP)
AP - Mozambique's government is reversing bread and water price increases that had touched off deadly riots, the planning minister said Tuesday.
09/07/2010 - 10:41 AM
Mozambique unrest shows the power of text messaging
(AFP)
 AFP - Deadly protests that paralysed Mozambique's capital last week were spurred by a text message that went viral on Maputo's cell phones, signalling the power of new technology in the hands of the poor.
09/07/2010 - 10:30 AM
Facebook generation gears up to monitor Nigeria poll
(Reuters)
Reuters - Tech-savvy young Nigerians are gearing up to use BlackBerries, mobile phones and social networking services such as Twitter and Facebook to monitor polls in January, in an effort to stamp out electoral fraud.
09/07/2010 - 10:18 AM
Police arrest 286 for Mozambique price riots
(AFP)
AFP - Police in Mozambique have arrested 286 people for violent protests against rising prices that left 13 dead and more than 400 injured during three days of unrest last week, authorities said Tuesday.
09/07/2010 - 09:14 AM
Exiled Rwandan leaders call for Kagame ouster
(AFP)
 AFP - Rwandans and the international community need to work together to end President Paul Kagame's rule and pave the way for a democratic transition, exiled leaders said in a report obtained by AFP Tuesday.
09/07/2010 - 09:10 AM
Congo police arrest 3 men carrying elephant ivory
(AP)
AP - Police in southeastern Congo say they have arrested three men carrying six suitcases full of elephant tusks.
09/07/2010 - 07:28 AM
Nigeria bans motorcycles at night after killings
(AFP)
 AFP - Nigerian authorities on Tuesday banned night time use of motorcycles in a northern state after a spate of killings by bike-riding gunmen suspected of being Islamist sect members.
09/07/2010 - 06:18 AM
Congo official says capsized boat was overloaded
(AP)
 AP - A capsized boat that killed as many as 200 people was carrying four times as many people as the passenger list claimed, and boat operators bribed officials to allow them to overload the vessel, a Congolese official said investigators have found.
09/07/2010 - 06:18 AM
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