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Nigerian lawmaker who exposed oil fraud quizzed over bribe

June 15, 2012 09:05
Farouk Lawan chaired a parliamentary committee set up in January which found that corruption and bad management were rife in Nigeria’s fuel subsidy program.

Nigerian army kills 16 suspected Boko Haram militants

June 6, 2012 10:03
Maiduguri is at the very centre of the insurgency that Boko Haram is waging in Nigeria, which has claimed more than 1000 lives over the past three years.

Nigerian students take to streets over Lagos university name change

May 30, 2012 15:36
Demonstrations began on Tuesday following the President Goodluck Jonathan’s sudden announcement on state TV that the University of Lagos was to be renamed as Moshood Abiola University, after a politician who won elections in 1993 but died in prison after the results were annulled by the army.

UN human rights chief Navi Pillay begins Zimbabwe visit

May 20, 2012 19:00
Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa said Monday that reports of torture and violence against political activists in Zimbabwe were “lies."

More than 30 killed in southern Libya militia clashes

March 27, 2012 18:04
Fighting began former rebels and gunmen from the Toubou group erupted in the city of Sabha three days ago, reportedly after a militiaman was killed in a dispute over a car.

Tunisia's Ennahda party to oppose Sharia in new constitution

March 26, 2012 15:58
In a press conference Monday, the founder of Ennahda, Rachid al-Ghannouchi, said: “We do not want Tunisian society to be divided into two ideologically opposed camps, one pro-Sharia and one anti-Sharia. We want above all a constitution that is for all Tunisians, whatever their convictions.”

Ethiopia troops seize key Somalia rebel town of El Bur

March 26, 2012 12:32
Al Shabaab still controls much of southern and central Somalia, but is under increasing pressure from Kenyan forces in the south and Ethiopian forces in the West.

Somalia: Ex-President Abdullahi Yusuf dies in exile

March 24, 2012 10:32
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed was viewed as an obstacle to peace over his refusal to negotiate with Islamist groups and tendency to carve up positions of power along clan lines.

Ex-Tuareg chief and Gaddafi aide Aghali Alambo arrested in Niger over arms smuggling

March 21, 2012 14:01
Aghali Alambo led a rebellion against Niger's government between 2007 and 2009, and became one of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s closest aides after going into exile in Libya.

British journalists freed in Libya

March 19, 2012 07:13
Gareth Montgomery-Johnson, 36, and Nicholas Davies, 37, were captured in the Libyan capital of Tripoli by a Misrata-based militia on February 22 while working as freelance journalists for Iranian news channel Press TV.
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