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...
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...
Roman Catholic bishops called on corrupt Catholic leaders in Africa on Friday to repent or resign for giving the continent and the Church a bad name. Around 200 African bishops, along with dozens of o...
The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Sudan's president on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. However, the court stopped short of accusing Oma...
Renegade soldiers have shot dead the president of the West African country of Guinea-Bissau, officials say. The killing of Joao Bernardo Vieira is thought to been a revenge attack, after the army chie...
