Mozambique to offer new oil, gas permits
Maputo - Mozambique's parliament has passed an amended petroleum law that will allow the government to issue new gas and oil exploration licences but...
Atul Gupta ‘appointed special adviser to Lesotho PM’
Atul Gupta’s web of influence is set to grow, following his reported appointment as special adviser to Lesotho Prime Minister Tom Thabane.Gupta is said...
UN envoy headed to Libya to negotiate cease-fire
TRIPOLI - The new U.N. special envoy to Libya plans to visit Tripoli as early as next week to seek a cease-fire between armed...
Egyptian shot dead on Libyan border with Tunisia
Ras Jedir/Cairo - An Egyptian national was shot dead on Friday while trying to cross the Libyan border with Tunisia, fleeing the violence in...
Guinea flattens shanty town to combat Ebola spread
Authorities in Guinea are taking radical action to fight the spread of the deadly Ebola virus.Security forces in Conakry, the capital of the west...
Ebola: U.S. orders embassy families out of Sierra Leone
The United States on Thursday told the families of its diplomats in Sierra Leone to leave the country to avoid exposure to the deadly...
Ebola epidemic halts Ivory Coast calls
The African ports of Abidjan and San Pedro in Ivory Coast are thought to be the first to deny entry to vessels arriving from...
Nigeria Confirmed Ebola Cases Still 10, With Four Deaths
Nigeria’s Minister of Health, Professor C. O. Onyebuchi, says the country has a total of 10 confirmed cases of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD),...
New Fighting Hits South Sudan
After a lull of several weeks, fighting broke out in South Sudan on Friday, forcing aid workers to take cover in a city where...
Somalia seizes 500 guns in new disarmament campaign
MOGADISHU, Somalia – Somalia's government has launched a new disarmament campaign that has netted some 500 guns and sparked gun battles in a capital...