At a restaurant along the River Nile offering crocodile and ostrich meat, officials of the world’s newest — and desperately destitute — nation hosted a lunch this month for Liu Guijin, China’s visiting envoy for African affairs.
Sudan's army killed a key rebel leader from the Darfur region today, state media reported, three days after anti-government forces said they had begun advancing on the capital Khartoum.
Five straight days of clashes in Cairo between protesters hostile to Egypt's military rulers and security forces have left 17 people dead, the health ministry said on Thursday.
President Barack Obama's counterterrorism chief says the 270 people killed in the 1988 airplane bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, can rest more peacefully knowing that longtime Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is dead.
New violence rocked the administrative heart of Cairo on Saturday as troops and police deployed after clashes with protesters against continued military rule left eight people dead and 299 wounded.
At least three people were killed and 257 wounded as Egyptian protesters and security forces clashed in the worst violence in weeks, overshadowing the vote count in the latest round of a landmark general election.
Islamists who swept to victory in the first stage of Egypt’s parliamentary elections were looking to consolidate their winning streak in a second round of voting Wednesday.
Three bomb attacks blamed on a feared radical sect killed one person and wounded 11 others in a volatile central Nigerian city, an official said on Sunday.
When the Kyoto Protocol, the world's only legally-binding pact to tackle climate change was adopted in the economically-booming 1990s, it was meant to be a down payment.
A UN climate conference ended on Sunday with a raft of decisions aimed at rolling back greenhouse-gas emissions and helping poorer countries cope with the impacts of changing weather systems. Read the key elements of what has now become the Durban Package.
A package of documents was submitted to a marathon UN climate conference on Saturday that would set a new course for the global fight against climate change for decades to come.
Libya's new rulers are ready to forgive the forces of slain leader Muammar Gaddafi who battled rebels trying to topple his autocratic regime, National Transition Council chief Mustafa Abdel Jalil said today.
Most of 100 acres of land where Mahatma Gandhi first experimented with equity and simple living, now invoked to save Durban climate summit, has been encroached. Gandhi established Phoenix Settlement in 1904 on the north-western edge of Inanda, some 20 kilometres north of Durban. "My grandfather's farm was fifteen miles away from the city amid sugarcane fields and untouched by the then racial laws, said Gandhi's granddaughter Ela Gandhi.
A mix of Hindi, English and Zulu is becoming popular among Indians in Durban. Chetan Chauhan reports.
Indian environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan evoked Mahatma Gandhi's historic association with South Africa to seek an equitable and development oriented climate agreement. Chetan Chauhan reports.