South Africa and Tanzania are not yet ready to recognise Somaliland and believe it should not be split off from Somalia according to the foreign ministers of Tanzania and South Africa. This emerged following bilateral talks between Tanzanian foreign affairs minister Bernard Membe and South Africa's international relations and co-operation minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane in Pretoria on Saturday. Membe said that he would be meeting a delegation from Somaliland within the next two weeks, but would not comment on the details of the talks until they had happened. Bot...
Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi has gone on state television to say he is assuming power in Tunisia. The announcement Friday came after thousands of protesters mobbed the capital of Tunis to dema...
The M-News monitoring the referendum projects that the "Yes" vote in Kenya will win the referendum by a margin of 2 to 1. As the results keep trickling in late at night it is clear that ther...
Four men accused of trying to kill a Rwandan general living in exile in Johannesburg made brief court appearances Tuesday, while prosecutors said that the suspects were not from Rwanda or South Afri...
Tanzania yesterday warned the grumbling opposition political party leaders in Burundi to either participate in tomorrow's General Election or risk alienation in the East and Central African regi...
Gordon Brown looks set to resign tonight and allow David Cameron to become Britain’s new Prime Minister after Labour talks with the Liberal Democrats collapsed. The Labour leader’s despe...
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has arrived in Kenya to investigate the country's post-election violence. More than 1,300 people were killed and hundreds of thousands d...
Pope Benedict XVI says the Church's child abuse scandal shows that the greatest threat to Catholicism comes from "sin within" the Church. He made his comments in response to a questio...