A voter census in Guinea-Bissau has been extended by a month, the government said Monday, likely delaying a crucial legislative vote planned for next month. The vote, seen as a key step towards ending a long-running political crisis in the poor West African country, had been planned for November 18. However the October 20 end date for an elec ...

A special envoy urged the UN Security Council on Monday to consider stern action against rebel chief Abdul Wahid Nur for resisting efforts to bring peace to Sudan's troubled Darfur region. Jeremiah Kingsley Mamabolo, the special representative of the United Nations and African Union in Darfur, noted that there were still confrontations between ...

Officials in Comoros on Monday displayed weapons and ammunition allegedly recovered by security forces from rebel fighters who besieged part of Anjouan island's main city during a week of clashes. Soldiers showed off an array of Kalashnikov-style assault rifles, boxes of bullets and explosive munitions said to have belonged to rebel fighters. ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo's ruling coalition spokesman said Monday his house was sprayed with bullets overnight in the capital Kinshasa, just two months ahead of a key vote. At around one in the morning, my residence came under heavy fire from unidentified men travelling in a Toyota IST, said Andre-Alain Atundu, a spokesman for the ruli ...

Primeiro Agosto take a 1-0 lead into the second leg of a CAF Champions League semi-final against Esperance in Tunisia Tuesday hoping to become the first Angolan finalists. The closest a club from the oil-rich southern Africa state has come to reaching the tile decider was Petro Atletico getting to the 2001 semi-finals before losing on penalties. ...

Missing pro-Biafran separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu gave a radio broadcast on Sunday saying he was in Israel, suggesting he owed his survival to the Jewish state. Kanu, a former London estate agent, heads the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) movement and the outlawed pirate radio station Radio Biafra but has not been seen in public since Septemb ...