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Mauritius president says to quit, re-enter politics

YoopyaMar 30, 20120

By Jean Paul Arouff PORT LOUIS (Reuters) – Mauritian President Anerood Jugnauth said on Friday he would step down from his ceremonial position and return

Family says Zimbabwe general killed, seek to exhume body

YoopyaMar 30, 20120

By MacDonald Dzirutwe HARARE (Reuters) – The family of a former Zimbabwean army general who was seen as a key player in the race to

Mali neighbours threaten border closure

YoopyaMar 30, 20120

By David Lewis and Loucoumane Coulibaly BAMAKO/ABIDJAN (Reuters) – Mali’s neighbours on Thursday gave the leaders of last week’s coup 72 hours to begin handing

Mali coup leader for outside help in north

YoopyaMar 30, 20120

BAMAKO (Reuters) – The leader of Mali’s military junta on Friday called for external help to secure the country against a separatist Tuareg rebellion in

Mandela archives, letters and notes go online

YoopyaMar 29, 2012November 30, 20230

(Reuters) – Thousands of letters, photographs and documents relating to former South African President Nelson Mandela went online on Tuesday in a project aimed at

Special Report: Gaddafi’s secret missionaries

YoopyaMar 29, 20120

(Reuters) – On a tidy campus in his capital of Tripoli, dictator Muammar Gaddafi sponsored one of the world’s leading Muslim missionary networks. It was

Ocampo hopes to open World Bank leadership to all

YoopyaMar 29, 20120

By Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former Colombian finance minister Jose Antonion Ocampo knows he faces a tough battle to head the World Bank but

UN mulls reducing peacekeepers in Sudan’s Darfur

YoopyaMar 29, 20120

By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – The United Nations is considering cutting back its peacekeeping mission in Sudan’s strife-torn Darfur region as violence dwindles

South Sudan troops withdraw from oil area after clashes

YoopyaMar 29, 20120

By Ulf Laessing HEGLIG OIL FIELD, Sudan (Reuters) – South Sudan’s troops have pulled out of Sudan’s oil-producing Heglig area, both sides said on Wednesday,

Zimbabwe court says no foul play in general’s death

YoopyaMar 29, 20120

By MacDonald Dzirutwe HARARE (Reuters) – A Zimbabwean magistrate has ruled out foul play in the death last August of retired army general Solomon Mujuru,