"Mbeki's property comments spark fury"

New paleographical data questions the great size of Atlantis

Liberians Take Step Toward Elections As Candidates Are Approved
The United Nations Mission in Liberia, UNMIL, says the final list of candidates for October legislative and presidential elections has been approved.

Junta vows to stop embezzlement in Mauritania
The chairman of the ruling Military Council for Justice and Democracy (CMJD) in Mauritania Col. Ely Ould Mohamed Vall has warned that he would wage "war" against government officials found guilty of misappropriation of funds.

Ethiopia seeks closer military ties with China
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 08/14 - Ethiopia is keen to forge closer military ties with China, the government-run Ethiopia News Agency (ENA) reported Friday quoting Prime Minister Meles Zenawi.

Security arrest 295 illegal aliens in DR Congo
About 295 West African illegal immigrants were arrested in the past two years on the DR Congo- Angola border, according to the provincial director of the General Immigration Department (DGM), Patrick Bombelo.

Mbeki's property comments spark fury
President Thabo Mbeki's hardline call for "pro-rich" property developments such as gated villages and golf estates to be stopped has caused an uproar among business organisations, property agents and opposition party spokespeople.

Marathon, others receive subpoenas over payments in Equatorial Guinea
Four U.S. oil companies, including Marathon Oil Corp., are targets of an investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission looking into possibly illegal payments made by the companies to the West African government of Equatorial Guinea.

Mbeki decries racism, gender, class divisions in South Africa
South African President Thabo Mbeki Friday called for an end to development of cities designated exclusively for the rich or the poor in the country, warning that the practice could re-enact racial and class divisions of the apartheid era.

Fate of Africa collects the pieces of a continent's story

South Africa condemns assassination in Sri Lanka
South African Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma Saturday condemned the assassination of her Sri Lankan counterpart Lakshman Kadirgamar on Friday.

Bush raises option of force against Iran
CRAWFORD, Texas: United States President George W Bush said he could consider using force as a last resort to press Iran to give up its nuclear programme.

Africa, solutions without borders
Troubling, this response comes in the 11th hour. Last winter, the United Nations World Food Program warned of impending disaster in Niger. The world body made two appeals in the spring for emergency food and financial aid to the landlocked nation of 11 million people. But it wasn't until pictures of underweight adults and dying children emerged that an adequate response came. Large-scale distribution of emergency rations and other aid is now headed to the 3.6 million — about 800,000 of them children under age 5 — left without food after a drought and locust infestation destroyed the millet harvest.

Ancestral voices
My Fathers' Daughter and Black Gold of the Sun, Hannah Pool and Ekow Eshun explore their British identities and African roots, writes Akin Ojumu

Oilman Puts The Wind Up Africans
A SCOTS oil worker has caused an international stink - simply by breaking wind. His flatuence upset colleagues in an African office so much they made an official complaint.

Mauritania To Remain U.S. Ally After Coup
Mauritania's new prime minister said he wanted democratic elections as soon as possible after last week’s coup and vowed the Islamic Republic would remain a U.S. ally in the fight against terrorism.

Ghanaian Ambassador to Morocco Fingered

De Beers Planning Huge Namibia Investment
Diamond producers Namdeb and De Beers Marine Namibia are planning to invest N$3.2 billion ($500 million) in the country's diamond industry, which the diamond miner says shows its commitment and confidence in Namibia.

New lemurs found in Madagascar's forests