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07-10 ION - Africa Zim teachers want exams cancelled School exams in Zimbabwe should be cancelled because strike action by teachers has left pupils unprepared, a teachers union has said.
07-10 ION - Africa Angola seeks to stop Paris arms trial Angola's government has asked a French judge to halt a major trial in Paris involving charges of arms trafficking and high-level bribes.
07-10 ION - Africa SA MDC leaders meet with Zim ambassador The exiled leaders of Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) have entered into discussions with that country's ambassador to South Africa.
07-10 ION - Africa Baby survives floods A baby was reportedly found alive by rescuers after spending four days in a pool of mud following flash-floods that killed at least 41 people in central Algeria.
07-10 ION - Africa French elite go on trial The son of former French president Francois Mitterrand, an Israeli-Russian billionaire and a tycoon with ties to Arizona's jet set are among the headliners as 42 defendants, accused in a web of trafficked arms to Angola, money laundering and kickbacks, got
07-10 ION - Africa Niger journalist Moussa Kaka freed Moussa Kaka, a prominent radio journalist in Niger, has been released provisionally after one year in detention for allegedly undermining state security.
07-10 ION - Africa Bad behaviour... The police crackdown on young women wearing trousers or short skirts follows an order from the commissioner of Juba county, the capital of southern Sudan.
07-10 ION - Africa Unity deal was a mistake: MDC A spokesperson for Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change has expressed regret that the party signed a power-sharing deal with President Robert Mugabe.
06-10 ION - Africa Zim parties fail to meet Zimbabwe's opposition has renewed its call for regional mediators to help break an impasse over a fragile power-sharing deal.
06-10 ION - Africa No travel alert to Zambia Zambian authorities and the World Health Organisation have mounted investigations into the unknown disease that has so far claimed four lives in South Africa.
06-10 ION - Africa The real African story Governance has improved in almost two-thirds of the countries in sub-Saharan Africa, according to an index.
06-10 ION - Africa Zim parties to resume cabinet talks: media Zimbabwe's main political rivals will meet to discuss the allocation of contentious cabinet posts, the state-owned Herald newspaper said.
06-10 ION - Africa MDC considering pulling out of deal Zimbabwe's power-sharing deal could collapse as the MDC and Zanu-PF have on three occasions failed to come to an agreement about the allocation of ministries.
06-10 ION - Africa Sudan expels two UK security officers Sudan has expelled two British security officers, accusing them of injuring two Sudanese guards in an argument about a car parking space, the country's Foreign Ministry said.
06-10 ION - Africa Somali insurgents demand weapons Islamist insurgents had demanded to be given some of the weapons aboard a hijacked Ukrainian ship carrying 33 tanks - but the pirates holding it had refused, a local official said.
06-10 ION - Africa We're being targeted, say Zim farmers At least one farm, in Cheguru, 100km from the capital Harare, is being occupied, writes Alex Duval Smith.
06-10 ION - Africa Pirates stare down global superpowers How can a bunch of criminals from one of the poorest and most wretched countries on earth face off with some of the world's richest and well-armed superpowers? Elizabeth A Kennedy reports...
05-10 ION - Africa Anti-coup coalition set to protest Mauritanian pro-democracy parties are set to defy a ban and hold an anti-coup demonstration.
05-10 ION - Africa Zim factions resume cabinet talks Zimbabwean negotiators are reportedly going back to the table to find "a domestic remedy".
05-10 ION - Africa Thirteen dead in Egypt bus crash Thirteen people have reportedly been killed and 24 injured when a bus and a truck collided head-on south of Cairo.
05-10 ION - Africa Zim rivals fail to settle Zimbabwean political rivals have failed to settle differences in talks about a new government.
05-10 ION - Africa Uganda 'beef up gay laws' The Ugandan government has raised concern about the mushrooming of lesbianism and homosexuality in the East African nation.
05-10 ION - Africa Somali pirates 'threatened us' Somali pirates pointed guns habitually at Malaysian and Filipino tanker crew members held captive, but allowed Muslim hostages to fast and pray.
05-10 ION - Africa Ethiopia denies torture claims The Human Rights Watch has accused Ethiopia of torturing terror suspects held in prisons since 2006.
04-10 ION - Africa Christian killed in clashes with Muslim A Coptic Christian has reportedly been killed by a stray bullet during an overnight gunfight in Al-Tayeba, Egypt.
04-10 ION - Africa SA company sues Zim tycoon A Zimbabwean tycoon who has been linked with key Mugabe cronies is being sued by a South African company for allegedly failing to honour a debt.
04-10 ION - Africa UN slams Congolese rebel leader The United Nations has blasted rebel Tutsi general Laurent Nkunda's plan to expand his rebellion.
04-10 ION - Africa Kidnapped Briton freed A British national kidnapped in the southern Nigeria's oil hub of Port Harcourt has been released.
04-10 ION - Africa Released terror suspects to sue government? Eight terror suspects have returned to Kenya after being held for more than a year in secret Ethiopian prisons without charge.
04-10 ION - Africa Moroccan cops seize tons of hashish Moroccan paramilitary police have reportedly seized a small airplane carrying 1,6 tons of hashish in the north of the country.
04-10 ION - Africa 'Bob in new talks to end deadlock' Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe will meet opposition leaders to iron out differences about the makeup of a unity government.
03-10 ION - Africa Zim mediation treated as 'urgent' Mediation between political rivals in Zimbabwe by former president Thabo Mbeki is to begin as soon as possible.
03-10 ION - Africa No sign of white flag as pirates knuckle down The armed pirates holding a hijacked ship off the coast of Somalia have given no indication that they are ready to surrender.
03-10 ION - Africa Currency crash prompts dramatic move by Gono Zimbabwe's Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono has stopped electronic bank transfers in Harare, creating confusion across the financial spectrum.
03-10 ION - Africa Islamists enforce sharia law in Somali town Islamists have imposed sharia law in southern Somalia in line with their pledge to restore theocracy to areas where they were ousted nearly two years ago.
03-10 ION - Africa Floods cause chaos in Algeria Algerian officials have confirmed that 31 people lost their lives in the recent floods in Ghardaia.
03-10 ION - Africa SA wants Mbeki to stay on as negotiator However, a senior official with Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party said that Thabo Mbeki's involvement was not needed.
03-10 ION - Africa Bullets hit UN chopper during clash UN helicopter gunships fired rockets and machine guns at militiamen who attacked them, the United Nations said.
02-10 ION - Africa Indictment could derail peace talks - Bashir Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir says that a possible indictment against him for war crimes threatens to derail Darfur peace talks.
02-10 ION - Africa Floods in Algeria claim 13 lives - report Nearly 600 homes have been destroyed by flash floods in Algeria's Ghardaia region, according to reports on the state radio station.
02-10 ION - Africa Pirates told to destroy ship Somali Islamist militants have urged pirates holding a Ukrainian ship to destroy the cargo and the vessel if they are not paid ransom.
02-10 ION - Africa Albinos live in fear after Burundi attacks The murder and mutilation of two albino villagers has sent shock waves through Burundi.
02-10 ION - Africa Violence in Chad spurs exit of aid agency The aid agency Doctors Without Borders has shut down two offices in eastern Chad and evacuated its staff after a spate of armed robberies.
02-10 ION - Africa Nigeria honours Malcolm X and Bob Marley Nigeria will rename some of its streets after music legends Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and Bob Marley, as well as Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, as part of a campaign to rebrand the administrative capital.
02-10 ION - Africa Piracy a 'threat to world trade' World trade faces major disruption if Somali piracy is unchecked, a report says.
01-10 ION - Africa Child prostitution on the rise in Congo Child prostitution has reached alarmingly high levels in Congo, a local NGO has reported after conducting a state-sponsored investigation.
01-10 ION - Africa Angola's new cabinet unveiled Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos has unveiled his cabinet and introduced a new economic ministry following a landmark legislative poll.
01-10 ION - Africa Killer horse disease hits Ethiopia An outbreak of African horse sickness has killed more than 2 000 horses, mules and donkeys in Ethiopia since March, an official has said.
01-10 ION - Africa Zimbabwe calls on Mbeki once more Zimbabwe's political deadlock could pull South Africa's recently ousted president, Thabo Mbeki, back into the spotlight.
01-10 ION - Africa Potion kills three in Malawi Three people died in Malawi after they were forced by a herbalist and a mob of villagers to drink a so-called "cleansing" potion.