Lagos, July 5 (Xinhua) Eight players and two officials of the Amputee Football Association of Nigeria (AFAN) will participate in the Uzbekistan 2008 Cup of Independence beginning, July...

London, July 5 : Ian Bell has been hailed as England's answer to Jacques Kallis and the batsman South Africa will be targeting next week....

BERLIN (AP) - Several African leaders will apparently get pressure at an upcoming G-8 summit to take tougher stands on Zimbabwe. The leaders of South Africa and Nigeria are among those invited to a...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - There's more evidence the re-election of Robert Mugabe as president of Zimbabwe was a sham. A prison officer used a hidden camera given to him by a British...

Habana scored his 31st try for South Africa two minutes before half-time New Zealand (9) 19 Tries: Kaino Cons: Carter Penalties: Carter 4 South Africa (8) 8 Tries: Habana Penalties:...

HARARE (AFP) - South African President Thabo Mbeki, chief regional negotiator on the Zimbabwe crisis, met here Saturday with President Robert Mugabe and leaders of a breakaway faction of the main...

South Africa's main labour union the Confederation of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) held a demonstration at the Beitbridge border post Saturday protesting against Robert Mugabe's regime....

At least 18 people - 12 of them school children - were killed when the bus they were travelling in crashed on a busy highway in the southern Nigerian state of Delta overnight. The 18-seater bus was...

Algiers: Algeria will not scrap a national reconciliation policy aimed at ending 16 years of violence, despite continuing attacks by armed Islamist groups, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika said on...

Mogadishu: An explosion killed a Somali official, his wife and four others in the capital on Saturday, witnesses and officials said. In a separate attack, Islamist rebels said they ambushed a convoy...

+ ] By Anamesere Igboeroteonwu ABAKALIKI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria has deployed troops in the remote southeastern state of Ebonyi after 14 people were killed and scores of buildings destroyed...

Nine words from Nelson Mandela were instrumental in saving the World Twenty20 for England yesterday and averted cataclysm in the international game.As Zimbabwe agreed to withdraw from the tournament...

July 5, 2008 · A group of Sunni and Shiite leaders will meet in Iraq with Martin McGuinne, the deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland and former IRA leader, and Cyril Ramaphosa, the South...

South Africa's Thabo Mbeki has held talks in Harare with Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and members of a breakaway opposition faction. Mr Mbeki has been the chief regional negotiator on the...

Watford chairman Graham Simpson says the Championship outfit have no desire to sell defender Danny Shittu, despite interest from Premier League clubs. And he said there had been no contact from...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Nigeria. Rwanda. Uganda. Ethiopia. Gabon. Robert Mugabe's regime in Zimbabwe has plenty of competitors for the title of "least democratic in Africa."But while he has been...

+ ] By Yoko Kubota and Astrid Wendlandt SAPPORO/PARIS (Reuters) - Thousands rallied in northern Japan calling for the G8 rich industrialised nations to be disbanded on Saturday while in Paris,...

By George Obulutsa Nairobi - Kenya has scrapped the licences of all its 55 sugar importers saying they have misused them, evaded taxes and were hurting local farmers, the agriculture minister said...

London - Secret footage filmed by a Zimbabwean prison guard shows how a supporter of President Robert Mugabe rigged votes in his favour, British newspaper The Guardian said. The hidden camera...

LAGOS - Hundreds of Nigerian soldiers who served as UN peacekeepers in Liberia went on the rampage in protest against the military authorities' refusal to pay their allowance, a local report said on...

A small boat packed with at least 148 African migrants landed today on a beach in the Canary Islands, the Interior Ministry said.The flimsy fibreglass vessel arrived at La Tejita beach on Tenerife's...

Lusaka - Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa who is hospitalised in France will undergo a second medical review next week after suffering a stroke, his deputy announced on Saturday. Mwanawasa was...

The Catholic bishops of Cameroon have called on the faithful to take the Year of St Paul inaugurated by the pope at the weekend to renew their Christian life. In a pastoral letter, the bishops...

By Greg Stutchbury South Africa captain John Smit said on Saturday the world champions could not play any worse after their 19-8 loss to New Zealand in the Tri-Nations opener. "We came here...

As the commissioner of Yaqshid neighborhood, Mohyadin Jurus told Shabelle. at least four Somali government soldiers were also killed in the roadside bomb that hit a military vehicle escorting the...

As condemnation of the Mugabe regime intensifies in the aftermath of his sham one-man presidential election, civil society groups on the continent are uniting to express their solidarity with the...

HARARE: Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday spurned a call from African leaders for talks with President Robert Mugabe on forming a unity government, saying conditions were not...

by Rod Mac Johnson Freetown - Sierra Leone's local elections, seen as a popularity test for the government of President Ernest Koroma, were marked by low voter turnout Saturday after a campaign...

The Zimbabwe Exiles Forum said on Friday the South African government needs to take responsibility not only for the number of Zimbabweans fleeing into the country, but also for the growing number of...

Idoko noted that the combined activities of land speculators that encroach on pipelines' right of way and vandals endanger not only the power sector but also the...

Somalia is not only one of the most dangerous countries in the world due to its long running civil war spanning decades. But to add to this, the waters off the coast of Somalia have become the most...

In a week when shell-shocked and financially squeezed South Africans faced another fuel hike, in which crime stats underplayed the obvious and top spook Manala Manzini's astonishing performance at...

Ecobank, a household name in The Gambia for efficient, friendly, customer focused and excellent banking services, yesterday, opened two new branches. The new branches are at the Kanifing highway and...

's executive secretary. He has since telephoned Zambia's high commissioner to South Africa, Leslie Mbula, to apologise personally. Zambian Minister for Foreign...

New Zealand flyhalf Daniel Carter scored 14 points and set up a try for Jerome Kaino as he led the All Blacks to a hard-fought 19-8 victory over the world champions South Africa in their Tri-Nations...

+ ] By Pete Harrison PARIS (Reuters) - The European Union may get barely one-third of its target for biofuels in transport fuels from home-produced sources by 2020, requiring massive imports to...

Dan Carter attempts a penalty kick against South Africa in Wellington. Photograph: Anthony Phelps/Reuters The world champions have been beaten already - what a poisoned chalice that Webb Ellis Cup...

But if the deal went ahead, which was likely, Swanepoel expected several positive spinoffs for SABMiller. With Anheuser's attention diverted in the US, and SABMiller having wrapped up the Molson...

Plaintiff had indicated that Hutchison Telecom concealed the real identity and status of Certwell Limited and in the process misled it into transferring a substantial 80% of it's ownership in Celltel...

Mobile Telecommunications Network (MTN) Ghana has rounded up the 21days of Y'ello Care challenge programme, which made its staff to engage in various activities in communities across the...

This has become possible after the organization of the "Tamale Business Forum," held in Accra, by the Tamale Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE), Mohammed Adam Amin-Anta, and his...

Video secretly recorded by Zimbabwean prison guard shows "vote-rigging" Guardian newspaper said video is first footage of vote-rigging in Zimbabwe President Mugabe under international...

Tsvangirai's MDC said on Friday a violent crackdown by security forces and pro-Mugabe militias had killed 103 of its followers, while 1 500 had been detained. About 5 000 others, including polling...

Members of the Sekyere East District Association of Small Scale Industries (SEDASSI), drawn from Effiduase and Asokore in Ashanti Region, have attended a four-day workshop, organized by the Business...

The Minister of State, at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, Dr. Anthony Akoto Osei, has commended the banking industry for the role it played towards the success story of the...

Johannesburg - Further damning evidence of the undemocratic nature of last week's election in Zimbabwe that returned longtime leader Robert Mugabe as president emerged Saturday in the form of video...

Former Southampton striker Cedric Baseya has joined French top-flight side Lille on a two-year contract. The 20-year-old joined the Saints as a teenager two years ago but was unable to establish...

He Wished Him Good Health And Algeria Further Progress, Hailing The Solid Bilateral Ties. Hm Also Sent Similar Cables To Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez And President Pedro Verona Rodrigues Of...

+ ] * Mugabe says opposition must drop claim to power By MacDonald Dzirutwe HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, defiant despite growing African condemnation of his...

+ ] LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has warned the G8 against a retreat into isolationism, saying the looming threat to the global economy instead required a speeding up of...