[Aswat Masriya] Clashes between security forces and protesters were renewed intermittently in Mansour street with security forces stationed at one end of the street near the Ministry of Interior building while protesters gathered at the intersection of Mohamed Mahmoud and Mansour streets.

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:54:05 GMT

[Financial Gazette] Harare - PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai have stalled the crafting of a referendum law due to haggling on whether or not the diaspora vote should be included in the constitutional plebiscite.

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:25:18 GMT

[allAfrica.com] Monrovia - Smartly seated behind his computer, crunching out numbers and making calls to colleagues, Anthony*, a 38-year-old father of three, is amongst those looking to check the spread of HIV in Liberia. He received confirmation of his own positive status after testing in 2007.

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:42:28 GMT

[UN News] The United Nations refugee agency said today it is alarmed by recent reports that displaced people have been tortured and killed in their camps by armed elements in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:06:27 GMT

[Af Conf] Few outside the Juba government had expected it to start shutting down oil production on 22 January. Warnings from the Government of South Sudan had been widely seen as brinkmanship.

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:54:49 GMT

[This Day] Twenty-four hours after the arrest of a suspected spokesman of Boko Haram, Abu Qaqa, the sect last night said the arrest of its member is an obstacle to the Federal Government's planned dialogue with it.

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:15:05 GMT

[ISS] Negotiations between Juba and Khartoum on the oil issue, under the auspices of the African Union's High-Level Implementation Panel (AUHIP), continued on the sidelines of the recently ended African Union meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:41:43 GMT

[White House] Washington, DC - The United States strongly condemns the bombing by the Sudanese Armed Forces of civilian populations in Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile States in Sudan. Aerial attacks on civilian targets are unjustified and unacceptable. Such attacks are a violation of international law and compound the ongoing crisis in these areas.

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:09:06 GMT

[Financial Gazette] ZIMBABWE'S vocal civil society which shadowed the just-ended African Union Summit held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, returned empty handed from its mission early this week.

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:28:34 GMT

[UN News] The United Nations human rights office today voiced concern over a cattle raid in a northern state of South Sudan earlier this week, which led to 78 deaths and numerous injuries among civilians, most of whom were women and children.

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:57:47 GMT