"Benin threatens to expel Togolese refugees"

Animal Whites
That PETA can't understand what it means for a black person to be compared to an animal, given a history of having been thought of in exactly those terms, isn't the least bit shocking. After all, the movement is perhaps the whitest of all progressive or radical movements on the planet, for reasons owing to the privilege one must possess in order to focus on animal rights as opposed to, say, surviving oneself from institutional oppression.

PETA Rethinks Ads Comparing Abuse, Slavery

Gold strike over in South Africa
The largest strike at South African gold mines is over on Thursday after the Chamber of Mines offered a pay increase between six and seven percent following negotiations between the management and unions.

SOUTHERN AFRICA - The Next Niger?
Images of skeletal children in Niger, wasted away by malnutrition, have featured prominently in the media over recent weeks. Amidst efforts to alleviate this suffering, however, there are fears that the crisis in Niger may undermine donor willingness to tackle problems elsewhere on the continent - notably in Southern Africa.

Algerian forces comb eastern Algeria looking for terrorists
The Algerian army and security forces are carrying out wide-scale combing operations in eastern Algeria after receiving information of possible terrorists in that area, media sources said Saturday.

BP makes eighth oil discovery in Angola Block 31
The UK-headquartered energy outfit has previously struck oil at Plutao, Saturno, Marte, Venus, Ceres, Palas and Juno, all within Block 31. Astraea-1 is located 10 kilometers to the south east of the Palas discovery, announced earlier in 2005.

Benin threatens to expel Togolese refugees
Benin's minister of information and new communication technologies, Frédéric Dohou, threatened after an audience with President Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé here Friday to repatriate Togolese refugees because "there is no persecution in their country".

Burkina Faso President to Run for Another Term

Burundi's former rebel leaders hand in weapons

UK considers 'secret courts'
Britain is considering setting up secretive courts to make it easier to prosecute terror suspects - and to hold them without charge for longer than the current 14 days - as part of the crackdown following last month's deadly London bombings, officials said on Tuesday.