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29-07 ION - Africa Congolese journalist arrested Authorities arrested a journalist on criminal defamation charges in Kinshasa, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has said.
29-07 ION - Africa Somali pirates release Turkish ship Somali pirates have released the Turkish ship Frigia which they hijacked four months ago, Turkish broadcaster NTV has said.
29-07 ION - Africa Jammeh accuses UK of supporting opposition Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has accused former colonial ruler Britain of funding opposition politicians ahead of 2011 elections in the West African country.
29-07 ION - Africa Diallo secures backing for run-off Cellou Dallein Diallo, the candidate who came top in the first round of the Guinea presidential election, has emerged as a strong favourite to win the decisive run-off.
29-07 ION - Africa Rebels were beaten in Darfur, says UN A missing Russian pilot and three rebel commanders were assaulted when their United Nations helicopter landed off target in Darfur earlier this week, according to UN officials.
29-07 ION - Africa Blood-drinking albino killer will be hanged A Tanzanian court has sentenced to death the man convicted of killing a five-year-old albino girl by hacking off her legs with a machete.
29-07 ION - Africa Mogadishu applauds AU decision on troops The embattled government of Somalia has hailed the African Union's decision to beef up its force in Mogadishu, where fierce clashes with Islamist rebels left 17 civilians dead this week.
29-07 ION - Africa Foreign lawyer held by Burundi police Burundi police have arrested a Croatian lawyer in Bujumbura for suspected links to an Islamist extremist group.
28-07 ION - Africa Somalia applauds AU decision to send troops Somalia's embattled government has hailed the African Union's decision to beef up its force in Mogadishu as a key step towards boosting security in Somalia and the entire region.
28-07 ION - Africa Plane veers off runway At least ten people have been injured after a Mauritania Airways passenger plane veered off the runway while landing at Conakry airport in Guinea.
28-07 ION - Africa 12 civilians killed in Mogadishu fighting Twelve civilians died and 43 others were injured in fierce fighting between government forces and insurgents in the Somali capital Mogadishu.
28-07 ION - Africa Fatal shootout hits Kenyan national park Armed raiders have killed one man and injured two in an unprecedented raid on the fringes of Kenya's famous Masai Mara national park.
28-07 ION - Africa Food security improving in Zimbabwe, says UN The troubled agricultural sector in Zimbabwe has started to recover from depths plumbed two years ago when it faced a food crisis, according to the United Nations.
28-07 ION - Africa Journalists who lie will die, warns prince The Committee to Protect Journalists has condemned threats by a Swazi prince who warned that reporters would die if they were critical of the last monarchy in Africa.
28-07 ION - Africa German pair freed in Sudan Malthe Golla and Werner Stern, the German aid workers kidnapped in Darfur more than a month ago, have been released by their captors.
28-07 ION - Africa AU adds troops for Somali peace force The African Union will add 4 000 troops to its peace force in Somalia - and is considering whether to let them battle the Islamists behind suicide attacks in Uganda that killed 76 people.
28-07 ION - Africa Gomes implements savings drive Guinea-Bissau Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Junior has barred officials from taking trips abroad and buying luxury cars in a bid to cut state spending.
28-07 ION - Africa January polls on the cards in Abuja Nigeria is set to hold presidential elections in January next year, as the House of Representatives has passed a constitutional amendment moving the polls forward by three months.
27-07 ION - Africa Swazi prince threatens journos Prince Mahlaba, brother of Swazi King Mswati III, has reportedly threatened "journalists who continue to write bad things about the country," saying they "will die".
27-07 ION - Africa Chad government bans many off-road vehicles Chad's government banned the use of Land Cruiser pick-ups and reserved them "exclusively for military use," the ministry of public security has said.
27-07 ION - Africa Burundi ruling party wins election Burundi's ruling party CNDD-FDD has secured a big majority in the coffee producer's parliamentary election, winning 81.19 percent of the vote.
27-07 ION - Africa Nigerian authorities seize 450kg of cocaine Nigeria's drug enforcement agency says it has seized nearly half a ton of cocaine and has arrested two Chinese nationals and a Nigerian in connection with the seizure.
27-07 ION - Africa Torture case: Egyptian cops on trial Two Egyptian policemen stood trial charged with the illegal arrest and torture of an anti-corruption activist who died in their custody, a case that has drawn protests at home and abroad.
27-07 ION - Africa Somalia peacekeeping force to get a boost The African Union has approved a plan to send an extra 2 000 peacekeeping troops to Somalia weeks after rebels launched bomb attacks in the Ugandan capital Kampala.
27-07 ION - Africa Zambia secures loan for mobile hospitals China has granted a substantial loan to Zambia for the southern African country to build mobile hospitals to serve its rural communities.
27-07 ION - Africa Cairo extends olive branch in Nile river row Egypt has sounded a conciliatory note in the dispute over how Nile waters should be shared by the countries it passes through.
27-07 ION - Africa Group sues UK over Congo 'conflict minerals' The lobby group Global Witness is taking the British government to court for failing to refer companies trading in Congo "conflict minerals" to the United Nations sanctions committee.
27-07 ION - Africa Sarkozy says Germaneau's killers will pay French President Nicolas Sarkozy has vowed to punish the North African wing of al-Qaeda for killing 78-year-old French hostage Michel Germaneau.
27-07 ION - Africa Nyangoma flees Burundi in fear Senior opposition politician Leonard Nyangoma has fled Burundi for fear of arrest after complaining about the military.
27-07 ION - Africa Thirteen killed during violence in Puntland Thirteen militia from the al-Shabaab group have been killed in clashes with troops of the semi-autonomous northern Puntland region of Somalia.
27-07 ION - Africa Support grows for Jonathan to stand in polls Nigerian state governors from the oil-producing south have called on President Goodluck Jonathan to declare his candidacy in upcoming elections.
27-07 ION - Africa Campbell's diamond testimony delayed Supermodel Naomi Campbell's testimony in the war crimes trial of former Liberian leader Charles Taylor has been postponed until August at her request.
26-07 ION - Africa Cholera outbreak kills 77 in Cameroon Cholera has killed 77 people in northern Cameroon since early June, raising concern that the worst epidemic since 2004 may spread into neighbouring Nigeria and Chad.
26-07 ION - Africa Britain urged to act on 'conflict minerals' Campaign group Global Witness says it is launching legal action against the British government for allegedly failing to refer companies trading Congolese "conflict minerals" for UN sanctions.
26-07 ION - Africa Gay rights activist cleared of porn charges A Zimbabwean gay rights activist has been found not guilty of pornography charges after being apprehended in a police raid in May, his lawyer has said.
26-07 ION - Africa Methanol-laced brew kills 6 At least six people died and 12 others were blinded after drinking moonshine laced with methanol in a Nairobi slum.
26-07 ION - Africa Stop expulsion of Somalis, UN urges Puntland The United Nations refugee agency has urged the northern Somali breakaway region of Puntland to halt the expulsion of Somali refugees, saying around 900 had been pushed back this week alone.
26-07 ION - Africa Germaneau killed for revenge, claim gunmen The North African wing of al-Qaeda claims to have executed French hostage Michel Germaneau in response to a raid by France and Mauritania.
26-07 ION - Africa Car bomber strikes in eastern Algeria A suicide bomber has killed one person in eastern Algeria by driving a car rigged with explosives into a building used by security forces.
26-07 ION - Africa Burundi secures IMF loan The International Monetary Fund has approved a $10-million concessional loan to Burundi after a review of its economic performance.
26-07 ION - Africa Trader fined over waste in Ivory Coast A Dutch court has fined commodities trader Trafigura for illegally exporting toxic waste to Ivory Coast which ended up being dumped in the open air.
26-07 ION - Africa African leaders denounce Uganda bombers African leaders attending the AU summit in Kampala have condemned Al Shabaab for the attacks that killed 76 people in Uganda earlier this month.
25-07 ION - Africa Somalia crisis overshadows AU summit A meeting of African Union leaders will likely be dominated by Somalia's bloody conflict.
25-07 ION - Africa Victims of violence in Zim nursing wounds Left to fend for her family of four as a widow, Thandiwe Ncube says a national healing programme launched by the power-sharing government means nothing for her.
24-07 ION - Africa Egyptian border guards kill migrant An Egyptian official says border guards have fatally shot one man and detained four others as they tried to cross the border into Israel.
24-07 ION - Africa Al-Bashir not to attend AU summit Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court on a war-crimes warrant, will not attend an upcoming African Union summit.
24-07 ION - Africa Rains in Niger kills two Heavy rain killed two people and has destroyed 650 houses and schools in Niger's southeastern Zinder, according to reports.
23-07 ION - Africa Morocco seeks to extradite three 'terrorists' Morocco has asked Senegal to extradite three Moroccans accused of terrorism who were arrested in Dakar last month on their way to war-ravaged Somalia, their lawyer has said.
23-07 ION - Africa Gunmen blow up Nigerian politician's home Gunmen attacked the home of a top politician in Nigeria's southern oil region with explosives - the latest episode in a bitter political rivalry that risks degenerating ahead of elections.
23-07 ION - Africa Lumumba named new Kenyan anti-graft chief Lawyer Patrick Lumumba was named Kenya's new anti-corruption chief, taking the helm of an organisation criticised for failing to bring high-profile offenders to book.