By Taha Zargoun TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Three days of clashes between rival militias in southern Libya spread to the centre of the country’s fourth largest
By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council expressed alarm on Tuesday at recent clashes between Sudan and South Sudan along their
By Loucoumane Coulibaly and David Lewis ABIDJAN/BAMAKO (Reuters) – Mali’s neighbours threatened on Tuesday to use sanctions and a readiness to use military force to
(Reuters) – African Union finance leaders on Monday unanimously endorsed Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s candidacy to lead the World Bank and urged an open
By Doug Palmer WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Monday added oil exporter South Sudan to a U.S. trade program for developing countries, allowing
JUBA/KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Clashes erupted between Sudan and South Sudan’s armed forces on Monday, both sides said, prompting Sudan’s president to suspend a planned meeting
By Alexander Dziadosz and Khalid Abdelaziz KHARTOUM (Reuters) – South Sudan’s shutdown of its crude production in a damaging row with Sudan over oil payments
By Siphiwe Sibeko TZANEEN, South Africa (Reuters) – South Africa’s ANC youth rebel Julius Malema upped the stakes in his political wrangling with the ruling
By Diadie Ba and Bate Felix DAKAR (Reuters) – Senegal’s Macky Sall claimed victory on Monday in a hotly contended presidential election over incumbent Abdoulaye