(AP) — South Sudan’s president says he and Sudan’s president have agreed to a resumption of oil exports and border trade. Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir traveled to South Sudan on Friday for the first time since the south peacefully broke away from Sudan in 2011. South Sudan President... Read more
(AP) — Few South Africans have the moral stature of retired archbishop Desmond Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who campaigned against apartheid and now laments the crime and inequality that plague the nation two decades after it cast off racist white rule. “We can’t pretend we have remained... Read more
(AP) — A suicide bombing by Islamic militants has killed at least three Chad soldiers and injured civilians at a market, officials and a humanitarian worker said Friday. Lalla Maiga, a humanitarian worker in Kidal, said that two suicide bombers were also killed in the attack. She said the... Read more
(AP) — Authorities have arrested a mayor in northeastern Mali on drug trafficking charges three years after a plane full of cocaine landed near his town, officials said Thursday. Baba Ould Cheick was taken into custody Wednesday morning, according to Alassane S. Toure, who headed the operation. “We asked... Read more
(AP) — In preparation for a drawdown of French troops from Mali, a European Union team started training Malian soldiers for battle against jihadists who overran much of this West African country before they were pushed back by a French military intervention. On a recent day, small groups of... Read more
(AP) — About 2,000 people have taken to the streets of Central African Republic’s capital after rebel fighters fatally shot a motorcyclist. Thursday’s demonstration highlights the growing resentment toward pillaging that is being blamed on members of the Seleka group that overthrew the president several weeks ago. The march... Read more
(AP) — A government official says Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir will travel to South Sudan on Friday. The visit will be al-Bashir’s first to South Sudan since the country peacefully broke away from Sudan in 2011. South Sudan government spokesman Barnaba Marial Benjamin said Thursday that the two heads... Read more
(AP) — An Ivory Coast legislative official said Wednesday that lawmakers had given President Alassane Ouattara the authority to rule by decree on social and economic issues for 2013. Daouda Maiga, a member of the National Assembly’s communications staff, said an overwhelming majority of the 178 lawmakers present voted... Read more
(AP) — Nineteen years after the end of apartheid, South Africans are still passionately divided over whether Margaret Thatcher helped or hindered the cruel system of white rule and prolonged the incarceration of Nelson Mandela. The heated discussions triggered by Thatcher’s death show how influential South Africans believe she... Read more
(AP) — Armed rebels that South Sudan believes are backed by Sudan opened fire on a United Nations convoy on Tuesday, killing five U.N. peacekeepers from India and at least seven civilians, officials said. Five peacekeepers and seven civilians working with the U.N. mission were killed, said Hilde Johnson,... Read more