Egypt: Armed Forces Council Calls for Peaceful Elections
[Aswat Masriya]
The ruling Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) called upon Egyptians to accept the results of the presidential elections beginning on Wednesday May 23. The elections will represent the choice of the people, SCAF said. Read more...
AllAfrica News: Latest, May 21, 5:39pm
Mali: Transitional President 'Beaten by Protesters'
[allAfrica.com]
The transitional president of Mali has been admitted to hospital after protesters reportedly burst into his office and beat him. Read more...
AllAfrica News: Latest, May 21, 2:06pm
Angola: Calls for Govt to Investigate Abuse of Congolese Migrants
[IPS]
Johannesburg -
The Angolan government is being urged to carry out a thorough and independent investigation into allegations of sexual and physical abuse by its security forces against Congolese migrants. Read more...
AllAfrica News: Latest, May 21, 12:13pm
West Africa: On Visit to Region, Security Council Praises Liberia's Progress
[UN News]
Ahead of their visit to Côte d'Ivoire, the members of the Security Council commended Liberia for its progress since the end of its civil war in 2003, and reiterated their support for efforts on reconciliation and inclusive dialogue in the West African country. Read more...
AllAfrica News: Latest, May 21, 11:07am
Libya: Lockerbie Bomber Dies in Tripoli
[iMaverick]
Johannesburg -
Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, the Libyan convicted of the 1988 bombing of a PanAm flight over Lockerbie, died of cancer on Sunday aged 60, leaving many questions on the attack and its aftermath unanswered. Read more...
AllAfrica News: Latest, May 21, 11:04am
Congo-Kinshasa: Banana Disease Threatens Livelihoods
[IRIN]
Idjwi -
More than half of mountainous South Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is infected by banana xanthomonas wilt (BXW), often referred to by farmers as "Banana AIDS". Read more...
AllAfrica News: Latest, May 21, 10:52am
South Africa: Vinegar Test Can Help Identify Cervical Cancer
[Health-e]
As many young women are now developing cervical cancer and more are at risk of cancer of the cervix because of HIV infection, new and simpler methods of diagnosis are needed. Now, scientists have discovered that vinegar is useful in diagnosing cervical cancer. Read more...
AllAfrica News: Latest, May 21, 10:48am
Angola: Stop Rape, Abuse of Congolese Migrants by Security Forces
[HRW]
Johannesburg -
Angolan security forces frequently abuse irregular migrants during expulsions from Angola, including sexual violence and other degrading and inhuman treatment, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Read more...
AllAfrica News: Latest, May 21, 9:39am
Lesotho: Violence As Lesotho Starts Early Voting
[allAfrica.com]
Lesotho has seen political violence flare ahead of May 26 elections, with the opposition claiming that dirty tricks have undercut their turnouts. Read more...
AllAfrica News: Latest, May 21, 9:37am
Kenya: Deputy PM Kenyatta Launches New Party
[Capital FM]
Nairobi -
Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta on Sunday launched The National Alliance (TNA) party which he will use to vie for presidency in the forthcoming general elections. Read more...
AllAfrica News: Latest, May 21, 9:36am
Cote d'Ivoire: Helping Victims of Post-Election Crisis Obtain Justice
[IPS]
Abidjan -
Thousands of people suffered rape, torture and other violence during the post-electoral crisis in Côte d'Ivoire beginning in December 2010. But many survivors of rights violations have been afraid to seek justice for fear of reprisals by the perpetrators. An initiative by the International Federation of Human Rights aims to support 75 such victims as they bring their cases to court. Read more...
AllAfrica News: Latest, May 21, 9:32am
Nigeria: Gunman Arrested At Venue of Ministerial Briefing
[Daily Trust]
A lone gunman was arrested around 12:00pm today at the Radio House, Area 10, Abuja which is the venue of the ongoing ministerial briefings ahead of the Democracy Day celebrations. Read more...
AllAfrica News: Latest, May 21, 9:02am
Tanzania: Ubungo MP Seeks Clarification On Water Project
[Daily News]
UBUNGO Member of Parliament (MP) Mr John Mnyika (CHADEMA), has requested the Ministry of Water to explain what has become of the Dar es Salaam Water Supply and Sanitation Project (DWSSP) which cost the government 164.6 million US dollars between 2003 and 2010 but has not materialized. Read more...
AllAfrica News: Latest, May 21, 8:28am
Egypt: Widespread Military Torture of Protesters Arrested in May
[HRInfo]
Military soldiers beat and tortured protesters they arrested at a demonstration near the Defense Ministry on May 4, 2012, Human Rights Watch said today, after interviews with numerous victims and lawyers. The military also failed to protect the protesters from attacks by armed groups in the early morning hours of May 2, at the same demonstration, which began on April 27 in Cairo's Abbasiyya neighborhood. Read more...
AllAfrica News: Latest, May 21, 8:28am
East Africa: Lead U.S. Commander 'Confident' Kony Will Be Caught
[New Vision]
The Commander of the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) Gen. Carter F. Ham has stated that he is confident the Lord's Resistance Army chief, Joseph Kony will be brought to justice. Read more...
AllAfrica News: Latest, May 21, 8:27am
Equatorial Guinea: Government Resigns According to Reform Plan
[Capital FM]
Malabo -
The government of Equatorial Guinea's Prime Minister Ignacio Milam Tang resigned in line with a constitutional reform approved in November, the country's communications minister said on Friday. Read more...
AllAfrica News: Latest, May 21, 8:16am
Ethiopia: How Meles Rules The Country
[African Arguments]
Meles Zenawi is the cleverest and most engaging president in Africa - at least when he talks to visiting outsiders. When he speaks to his fellow Ethiopians, he is severe and dogmatic. Read more...
AllAfrica News: Latest, May 21, 7:51am
Ghana: Ghana's Oil Export Faces Ban
[Public Agenda]
Ghana could soon freeze future exports of its crude oil entitlements, which are held by the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), in order to meet local consumption needs. Read more...
AllAfrica News: Latest, May 21, 7:27am
South Sudan: Juba Calls for 'Steep' Sanctions On Sudan Over Abyei
[Sudan Tribune]
Juba -
South Sudan on Sunday said it is time the international community imposes "steep sanctions" on the government of neighbouring Sudan for its "deliberate" failure to comply with a UN Security Council (UNSC) resolution calling for an end to hostilities and the immediate withdrawal of troops from the contested region of Abyei. Read more...
AllAfrica News: Latest, May 21, 7:24am
South Africa: Secrecy Bill Amendments On the Cards
[West Cape News]
MPs are set to invite the Department of State Security to debate proposed changes made by political parties to the controversial Protection of State Information Bill. Read more...
AllAfrica News: Latest, May 21, 7:12am
Africa: G8 to Poor Countries - It's Not You, It's Me
[Oxfam]
As the Camp David G8 Summit winds down, international agency Oxfam criticized G8 leaders for failing to renew measurable funding and policy commitments to help address global food security. Leaders were unwilling to continue current efforts to invest in developing country agriculture, even as they set a new goal of helping 50 million people lift themselves out of poverty through agriculture by 2015. Read more...
AllAfrica News: Latest, May 21, 7:02am
Somalia: Multiple Explosions in Mogadishu Kill 8
[Garowe Online]
Mogadishu -
Multiple explosions in Mogadishu's busy Bakara market and another blast in east Mogadishu killed 8 and injured more than 15 on Saturday, Radio Garowe reports. Read more...
AllAfrica News: Latest, May 21, 6:06am
Libya: Nation Votes for the First Time in Four Decades
[AEP]
Libyans are scheduled to go to the polls in June 2012 to elect 200 members of the National Public Conference in the country's first democratic elections since Col. Muammar Gaddafi took the reign of power in 1969. Read more...
AllAfrica News: Latest, May 21, 5:55am
Zimbabwe: Cattle Breeders Face Tough Choices As Pasture Vanishes
[AlertNet]
Filabusi -
Lorraine Mabuza stands outside her cattle pen. She wears a pensive look, and the source of her troubles is not hard to guess. Read more...
AllAfrica News: Latest, May 21, 3:29am
Nigeria: Opposition Against New Electricity Tariff Mounts
[Leadership]
Stakeholders have decried the new tariff by the Nigerian Electricity Regulation Commission (NERC), saying that it will not be beneficial to the masses. Read more...
AllAfrica News: Latest, May 21, 1:59am
Kenya: Kibaki Orders Speedy Probe Into Scam
[Capital FM]
Nairobi -
President Mwai Kibaki has ordered for a speedy conclusion of a probe into the scandal surrounding the Civil Servants Medical Scheme, promising that punitive action would be taken on those found to have 'participated in any acts that may have compromised the health of the Kenyan people'. Read more...
AllAfrica News: Latest, May 20, 11:54pm
Tanzania: NGOs Push for More Budget On Maternal Health
[Daily News]
SOME 35 NGOs have teamed up to petition the government, urging it to allocate adequate budget for maternal and newborn health during the 2012/2013 financial year. Read more...
AllAfrica News: Latest, May 20, 11:51pm
Zimbabwe: I Am Tired, Mugabe Says
[Zimbabwe Standard]
Bulawayo -
President Robert Mugabe wants to retire but he fears that if he leaves now, Zanu-PF will disintegrate and the country degenerate into a possible civil war, former confidant and comrade-in-arms, Enos Nkala yesterday said. Read more...
AllAfrica News: Latest, May 20, 11:45pm
Egypt: Pro-Revolution Candidates Fail to Unite
[Aswat Masriya]
Cairo -
Campaign of presidential candidate Hisham Bastawisi denied reports that he may withdraw for another candidate, insisting on his intention to run the race until the end. Read more...
AllAfrica News: Latest, May 20, 11:42pm
Somalia: Double Explosions Hit Capital
[Shabelle]
Mogadishu -
Somali government official says Double bomb explosions have again hit Somalia's capital Mogadishu amid the capital is returning into normal. Read more...
AllAfrica News: Latest, May 20, 11:40pm
Zimbabwe: UN Human Rights Chief Jets in
[The Herald]
Harare -
UNITED Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Ms Navanethem Pillay arrived in Zimbabwe yesterday for a five-day visit to assess the human rights situation in the country. Read more...
AllAfrica News: Latest, May 20, 11:40pm
Nigeria: Military Debunks Claims of Non-Payment of Pensions
[This Day]
Abuja -
The Nigerian Military Pension Board (MPB) has denied allegations that it does not pay its retired officers and men of most of their retirement benefits. Read more...
AllAfrica News: Latest, May 20, 2:14pm
Nigeria: The Art in the Waste
[This Day]
The notion that nothing is a complete waste rings true for Kolade Oshinowo's exhibition which showcases works from materials derived from fabric waste, writes MARY EKAH Read more...
AllAfrica News: Latest, May 20, 2:14pm
Nigeria: Court Asked to Stop Jonathan, NJC From Reinstating Salami
[This Day]
One Barrister Wilfred Okoli yesterday filed a suit against the federal government asking the court to restrain government from reinstating the suspended President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Isa Ayo Salami. Read more...
AllAfrica News: Latest, May 20, 2:13pm
Nigeria: Buhari - Tinubu Tackles PDP Over 2015
[This Day]
Reacting to the claims by Olisa Metuh, Peoples Democratic Party's National Publicity Secretary that Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, national leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria, endorsed President Goodluck Jonathan's election at a lecture he gave at Chatham House, London, Sunday Dare, Tinubu's special adviser on Media yesterday accused the PDP of wilful mischief. Read more...
AllAfrica News: Latest, May 20, 2:13pm
Angola: Businessmen Told to Seize Argentina's Project Experience
[ANGOP]
Luanda -
The Angolan minister of Agriculture and Rural Development and Fisheries, Afonso Pedro Canga, Friday in Luanda appealed to the national businessmen to seize the experience of Argentina in developing projects. Read more...
AllAfrica News: Latest, May 20, 2:12pm
Nigeria: Adenipekun Advocates Reforms
[This Day]
An Ibadan based legal practitioner, Mr. Adebayo Adenipekun (SAN) has identified the failure of the country to carryout court reforms as one of the major problem facing the judiciary and called for the immediate reforms of the courts to aide speedy dispensation of justice. Read more...
AllAfrica News: Latest, May 20, 2:12pm
Angola: Petro and 1º De Agosto to Play Much Awaited Classic
[ANGOP]
Luanda -
Long time rivals Petro de Luanda and 1º de Agosto will be playing on Sunday here for the 42nd time in the national first division football championship, in a game that is awaited with much expectation by sports lovers. Read more...
AllAfrica News: Latest, May 20, 2:11pm
Nigeria: Agonising Relief as Lagos Clears Slum
[This Day]
Homelessness broke out a rash of informal communities across Lagos, as is the case in most cities of its economic stature. Gradually, feelings dull and it became acceptable for people to live under bridges and raise families. There are cries of injustice when the state government moved bulldozers to these communities, last week, write Bennett Oghifo and Lanre Odukoya, who monitored their agony Read more...
AllAfrica News: Latest, May 20, 2:11pm
Nigeria: NEMA Presents Relief Materials to Victims of Lamurde Attack in Adamawa
[Leadership]
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has presented relief materials to Internally Displaced Persons in Lamurde Local Government Area of Adamawa. Read more...
AllAfrica News: Latest, May 20, 2:11pm
Nigeria: Boundless Creativity
[This Day]
An all female art exhibition titled Colours of Creativity which opened on May 5 rounded off on a climactic note last Wednesday at the National Museum, Onikan, Lagos, writes Lanre Odukoya Read more...
AllAfrica News: Latest, May 20, 2:10pm
Nigeria: Police in Nasarawa Arrest Nscdc Official for Burglary, Theft
[Leadership]
The Police in Nasarawa State have arrested an official of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) for alleged burglary and theft. Read more...
AllAfrica News: Latest, May 20, 2:09pm
Nigeria: Gas Explosion - Chevron Must Pay U.S.$3 Billion Fine, FG Insists
[This Day]
The Director-General/Chief Executive Officer of the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA), Peter Idabor, on Thursday insisted that Chevron must pay an administrative fine of $3 billion to the federal government for the environmental disaster that accompanied the gas explosion in some communities in Bayelsa State. Read more...
AllAfrica News: Latest, May 20, 2:09pm
Nigeria: NAF to Partner South African Air Force
[This Day]
Kaduna -
Nigerian Air Force (NAF) will partner South Africa and host of other African countries in training, equipment and exercises in order to build a formidable air force in Africa. Read more...
AllAfrica News: Latest, May 20, 2:08pm
Nigeria: Court Refuses to Wind Up Federal Palace Hotel
[This Day]
Justice Mohammed Liman of the Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday dismissed a petition filed by Maiden, wife of the late Publisher of the The Guardian Newspapers, Alex Ibru, seeking to wind up Federal Palace Hotel in Lagos. Read more...
AllAfrica News: Latest, May 20, 2:07pm
Nigeria: Dame Jonathan - Standing By Hubby
[This Day]
The popular cliché is that behind a successful man is a woman and this may apply in a reverse context. But in a fit of mischievous ingenuity, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, widely known for his humour, once reputedly said: "What is a woman doing behind a man? Read more...
AllAfrica News: Latest, May 20, 2:06pm
Nigeria: Aregbesola, Yuguda Urge People to Learn From Post-Election Mayhem
[This Day]
Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State has called on Nigerians and political leaders to "learn from the unfortunate episode of the last presidential election which was characterized by high level violence in some northern part of the country." Read more...
AllAfrica News: Latest, May 20, 2:06pm
Zambia: Giants Clash at Levy Stadium
[Times of Zambia]
THE Levy Mwanawasa Stadium in Ndola today finally opens its doors to the public and showcases its beauty to the outside world with an enthralling MTN Premier Division League double-header soccer feast involving four past Zambian champions. Read more...
AllAfrica News: Latest, May 20, 2:05pm
Nigeria: Royal Fathers Decry Do-or-Die Politics
[This Day]
Traditional rulers from Akoko-Edo Local Government have appealed to politicians in the state not to heat up the polity by the use of inflammatory language in their campaign. Read more...
AllAfrica News: Latest, May 20, 2:04pm
Zambia: Simbao Slices Kavindele's 'Rich Talk'
[Times of Zambia]
MMD presidential candidate Kapembwa Simbao has ticked off fellow aspirant Enoch Kavindele for suggesting that only those with a lot of money should be at the helm of the former ruling party. Read more...
AllAfrica News: Latest, May 20, 2:04pm