19 weeks 1 day 20 hours ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

Foreigners abducted in Mogadishu ! Islamist guerrillas roam freely in many parts of lawless Mogadishu Two Europeans, believed to be French, have been kidnapped from a hotel in Somalia's capital ...

19 weeks 2 days 21 hours ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

Sudan women 'lashed for trousers' ! A group of Sudanese women has been flogged as a punishment for dressing "indecently", according to a local journalist who was arrested with them. Lubna Ahmed al-Hussein, who ...

19 weeks 2 days 21 hours ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

Taylor starts war crimes defence  ! Prosecutors say Taylor directed rebels in neighbouring Sierra Leone Lawyers for Charles Taylor, ex-president of Liberia, have told his trial for crimes ...

19 weeks 3 days 1 hour ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

Congo polls close amid veto call ! Mr Sassou-Nguesso is widely expected to win another seven-year term People in the Republic of Congo have voted in an election which opposition leaders boycotted ...

19 weeks 4 days 22 min ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

Al-Qaeda 'releases Swiss hostage'!   A Swiss man held hostage for six months by members of al-Qaeda in Mali has been freed, reports say. Werner Greiner - seized in Niger - is the last of six Western hostages held by a group calling itself ...

19 weeks 4 days 17 hours ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

ZIMBABWE - LETTER FROM THE DIASPORA ! 10th July 2009 Dear Friends, President Barack Obama is about to pay a visit to Africa but it is not his first visit to the continent. In his memoir 'Dreams From My Father' Obama describes his first trip to his Kenyan father's homeland and his reactions to that momentous visit. It was ...

19 weeks 5 days 19 hours ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

SA miners hold bosses underground! Hostage talks are under way to free five supervisors being held captive at a South African platinum mine. About 500 miners took a total of eight supervisors hostage on Thursday morning ...

19 weeks 5 days 23 hours ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

Nigeria rebel 'accepts amnesty' ! The militants say Henry Okah's health has been failing Nigerian militant leader Henry Okah has accepted a government amnesty offer, his lawyer says - possibly a ...

19 weeks 6 days 8 hours ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

Nigeria rebel Okah 'to be freed' ! Henry Okah has been facing treason and gun-running charges Nigeria is to release militant leader Henry Okah because he has accepted a government amnesty offer, ...

19 weeks 6 days 16 hours ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

'Hijab martyr' rally due in Cairo! Thousands walked behind the coffin at Marwa Sherbini's funeral on Monday Further protests are expected in Cairo over of the case of an Egyptian woman dubbed the ...

19 weeks 6 days 16 hours ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

Nigeria welcomes UK prisoner plan! Nigeria's prisons are not considered good enough for UK prisoners Nigeria's government says it is happy with a UK plan to help refurbish their prisons to allow ...

19 weeks 6 days 17 hours ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

UN plans to tackle W Africa crime! Local officers will have training from overseas experts Peacekeepers, Interpol and various United Nations agencies have promised to work together to tackle the ...

19 weeks 6 days 20 hours ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

Annan acts on Kenya poll suspects! Kofi Annan brokered a power-sharing deal following two months of violence The names of key suspects involved in violence after the 2007 Kenyan election have ...

20 weeks 19 hours 21 min ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

Africans prepare to welcome Obama! Africa is preparing to welcome President Barack Obama. BBC News website readers in Africa tell us their hopes and expectations of the visit. The most powerful man in the world will touch ...

20 weeks 21 hours 49 min ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

DR Congo army 'to act over rapes'! DR Congo troops are trying to flush rebels out of the east The Congolese military has promised to punish any soldiers found guilty of rights abuses, after ...

20 weeks 21 hours 51 min ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

Could Sudan clashes herald return to war? More people have been killed in South Sudan than Darfur in recent months By Peter Martell ...

20 weeks 1 day 29 min ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

Police parade Kenya 'kidnappers'! A teenage boy (LEFT) was rescued from his kidnappers by police on Friday Police in Kenya have paraded 13 suspects accused of involvement in a recent wave of ...

20 weeks 1 day 36 min ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

Crime lords 'ruining West Africa'! International efforts have helped reduce cocaine trafficking The United Nations says organised crime is "plundering" West Africa, as illicit goods ...

20 weeks 1 day 16 hours ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

UK plans new powers on genocide! Some 800,000 people were killed in Rwanda's genocide Suspects in the Rwandan and Balkan genocides living in Britain could be tried in the UK, under plans outlined ...

20 weeks 2 days 12 hours ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

Sirleaf 'surprised' at ban call ! The president was at an African Union summit when the report was released Liberia's truth commission has called for President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf to be barred ...