News Flash
General News
Egypt confirms site for its first nuclear plant
Egypt has picked the Dabaa site on the Mediterranean coast for its first nuclear power plant, the official news agency MENA said on Wednesday....read more »
10 now arrested in shooting of ex-Rwandan general
Category: General. Location: Rwanda. Source: Associated Press Posted by Justin Mensah on Wed, 25th Aug 2010.
Police say they have now arrested 10 men in the shooting of a former Rwandan general exiled in South Africa....read more »
Top S.Africa labour group threatens to widen strike
Category: General. Location: South Africa. Source: Reuters Posted by Justin Mensah on Wed, 25th Aug 2010.
South Africa's biggest labour federation COSATU on Tuesday threatened to expand a state workers' strike next week to all of its members, which could deal a heavy blow to manufacturing in Africa's largest economy....read more »
Powerful ex-gang leader shot in Nigerian oil hub
Category: General. Location: Nigeria. Source: Reuters Posted by Justin Mensah on Wed, 25th Aug 2010.
A powerful former Nigerian gang leader accused of helping to rig elections in the oil-producing Niger Delta was shot late on Tuesday, raising fears of retaliation in the volatile region....read more »
Ban Ki-moon sends top aide to Congo after mass rape
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon sent a top official to Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday after a mass rape of women by rebels in the east that U.N. peacekeepers say they only heard about over a week later....read more »
Train rams minibus in S.Africa, at least 8 children dead
Category: General. Location: South Africa. Source: Reuters Posted by Justin Mensah on Wed, 25th Aug 2010.
At least eight South African children were killed on Wednesday when a minibus carrying them to school drove through a barrier at a railroad crossing and was rammed by a train, officials said....read more »
Car bomber attack on Mauritanian army base thwarted
Category: General. Location: Mauritania. Source: Reuters Posted by Justin Mensah on Wed, 25th Aug 2010.
A suspected Islamist attacked a Mauritanian military base with a car bomb on Tuesday night, but the attack was foiled when soldiers opened fire on the vehicle, a Mauritanian military said....read more »
Al Shabaab push towards the palace of Somali President
Category: General. Location: Somalia. Source: Reuters Posted by Justin Mensah on Wed, 25th Aug 2010.
Somali Islamist rebels pushed towards the presidential palace late on Tuesday but were repelled by heavy shelling by government troops, an army officer said on Wednesday....read more »
Consensus in Egypt party for another Mubarak term
There is consensus in Egypt's ruling party backing Hosni Mubarak, 82, to run again for the presidency in 2011 but any bid would depend on a decision by the president, the party's secretary-general said....read more »
Train hits van in SAfrica; kills at least 9 kids
Category: General. Location: South Africa. Source: Associated Press Posted by Justin Mensah on Wed, 25th Aug 2010.
A driver taking children to school went around a closed railroad crossing gate Wednesday, then collided with an oncoming train that killed at least nine pupils and injured five others, police and witnesses said....read more »
Egypt clamps down on security after museum theft
Egypt pledged on Tuesday to implement strict measures to protect its cultural and archaeological riches after the theft of a Vincent Van Gogh masterpiece in broad daylight from an unguarded Cairo museum.
Antiquities supremo Zahi Hawass said alarm systems in museums across the country would be upgraded and linked to a central control room monitored by security forces....read more »
Antiquities supremo Zahi Hawass said alarm systems in museums across the country would be upgraded and linked to a central control room monitored by security forces....read more »
4 executed in Equatorial Guinea coup plot
Category: General. Location: Equatorial Guinea. Source: Associated Press Posted by Justin Mensah on Wed, 25th Aug 2010.
Equatorial Guinea's government on Tuesday defended the execution of four alleged coup plotters just an hour after they were condemned in a case that Amnesty International called a "pretense of justice."...read more »
Homosexuality against word of God: African bishops
African Anglican bishops voiced their strong disapproval of homosexuality at a meeting Tuesday attended by Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, as the issue continues to divide Anglicans....read more »
South Africa bus collides with train killing children
Category: General. Location: South Africa. Source: BBC Posted by Justin Mensah on Wed, 25th Aug 2010.
At least eight children have been killed and four injured in a collision between a school bus and a train in South Africa, local reports say.
The accident happened at a railway crossing near Cape Town when the driver drove round a closed gate, witnesses were quoted as saying....read more »
The accident happened at a railway crossing near Cape Town when the driver drove round a closed gate, witnesses were quoted as saying....read more »
UN investigates claims of mass rape by DR Congo rebels
The United Nations is investigating claims that rebel fighters raped more than 150 women and baby boys in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The attacks happened over four days within miles of a UN base, a US aid worker and a Congolese doctor said....read more »
The attacks happened over four days within miles of a UN base, a US aid worker and a Congolese doctor said....read more »
More StoriesView all News
Egypt confirms site for its first nuclear plant 10 now arrested in shooting of ex-Rwandan general Top S.Africa labour group threatens to widen strike Powerful ex-gang leader shot in Nigerian oil hub Ban Ki-moon sends top aide to Congo after mass rape Train rams minibus in S.Africa, at least 8 children dead Car bomber attack on Mauritanian army base thwarted Al Shabaab push towards the palace of Somali President Consensus in Egypt party for another Mubarak term Train hits van in SAfrica; kills at least 9 kids Egypt clamps down on security after museum theft 4 executed in Equatorial Guinea coup plot Homosexuality against word of God: African bishops South Africa bus collides with train killing children UN investigates claims of mass rape by DR Congo rebels [Video] Somali MPs killed in hotel suicide attack South Sudan plans mass return ahead of referendum MDC co-founder Gibson Sibanda dies Equatorial Guinea executions over coup plot condemned Thousands left homeless in Niger Suicide attack foiled in Mauritania UN sends envoy to DRC over rapes Deadly battles continue in Somalia Sudan plans to build nuclear plant Spain denies hostages release Fighters killed in Somalia blasts Nigerian leader may run for president -- unless he does not Some 200 women gang-raped near Congo UN base Rwanda detained relative of dissident general Gunmen in Nigeria abduct 10-year-old son of politicianLet your stories be heard. Sign up here and start posting it live on Afrika Speaks
Latest Video
Browse by Publishers
Browse by Country
Recent Comments
If i am wanted, come for me in Ghana– Frank RajaFrank is not capable of doing that pls leave him alone......