Ivory Coast’s presidential candidates have all accepted a voter list produced by the electoral commission, the prime minister said on Monday, a sign that a poll delayed for five years may finally take place. “I’m happy to tell you that we are all agreed on the definitive electoral list,” Prime Minister Guillaume Soro told journalists [...]

Two pro-democracy campaigners were missing after Swazi police raided a meeting of union and human rights activists on Monday and arrested 50 people, labour officials and rights groups said. Police swooped on a hotel in the capital Mbabane where activists were meeting to plan Tuesday protests demanding more democracy in the tiny nation of 1.1 [...]

The Ugandan rebels Lord’s Resistance Army(LRA) has killed eight people in raids over the weekend in South Sudan’s state of Western Equatoria, a local official has said. The LRA, which is a sectarian religious and military group from northern Uganda, has a history of committing atrocities in the region. It began as an Acholi tribe [...]

Labor Day might mark the end of summer for some, but in Ethiopia, September means the springtime celebration of a new year. Called Enkutatash, the holiday enticed a crowd of African ex-pats and other curious locals to an outdoor festival at Berkeley’s Civic Center Park this Sunday. Organized by Oakland’s own Ethiopian Community and Cultural [...]

According to Obasanjo who was speaking at a forum in Ghana at the weekend, he was kept waiting for over three hours by immigration officials. He said the reason for the delay was that he told the officials, who did not recognise him as former president of Nigeria, that he was a farmer when they [...]

Johannesburg, South Africa — Schools in South Africa will reopen Tuesday after unions representing more than 1.3 million workers in the country suspended a three-week-old strike that has crippled hospital services, closed schools and wreaked havoc on other public services. A joint statement from COSATU Public Service Unions and the Independent Labour Caucus said the [...]

Some 1,458 Eritrean refugees from various camps in Ethiopia were resettled to the United States (US) recently, the Ethiopian State Administration for Refugees and Returnees Affairs (ARRA) disclosed. Last week, a group of 130 Eritrean refugees, after years of exile in Ethiopia, were flown to the US as part of the ongoing resettlement operation. They [...]

An employee of a radio station in Mombasa is being interrogated by anti-terror police officers over alleged links with masterminds of the recent Kampala bombings. The suspect was handed over to the Anti-Terrorism Police Unit in Nairobi on Sunday evening after spending a night in custody in the coastal town. “The suspect was with us [...]

Another ship bearing Tamils fleeing Sri Lanka might be departing for Canada. CTVNews reported Monday night that federal officials are preparing to head off the third such boat to cross the Pacific Ocean. On Aug. 12, the small cargo ship MV Sun Sea was carrying 492 migrants when it was escorted into CFB Esquimalt and [...]