More Neolithic rock etchings have been in the Algerian desert, dating back from around 8,000 years ago and showing cattle herds. Local tour guide Hadj Brahim found about 40 images...

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More than 30 heads of state gathered in Accra, Ghana

President Sassou-Nguesso's Congolese Labor Party and its allies to occupy almost all seats in parliament

Recent arrest and sentencing of a school teacher and five journalists for insulting President Toure overshadows Mali's reputation as one of the most free democracies in West Africa

Senator, 20 other shopkeepers were charged with violating the government price-controls

State security agents at Joshua Mqabuko International Airport last Wednesday briefly detained a South African pastor and confiscated the passports of five others, a day after they had delivered sermons strongly condemning the government's human rights record.

Heads of State attending the African Union (AU) Summit are being urged to seriously consider the immediate deployment of the international hybrid UN/AU force to the Darfur region of Sudan in order to address the humanitarian situation there.

OPPOSITION leader Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday told party provincial leaders he was against "elitist pacts" with a rival faction of the MDC which he said would not guarantee victory against President Robert Mugabe.

ZANU PF has already started rigging next year's harmonized elections by denying supporters of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in rural areas the right to register as voters, the opposition party has said.

The opening ceremony of the 9th African Union Heads of State Summit in Ghana has kicked off.

State security agents at Joshua Mqabuko International Airport last Wednesday briefly detained a South African pastor and confiscated the passports of five others, a day after they had delivered sermons strongly condemning the government's human rights record.

The opening ceremony of the 9th African Union Heads of State Summit in Ghana has kicked off.

A symbolic Pan-African passport has been unveiled by a number of civil society organisations at the fringes of the 9th African Union Summit, highlighting the need to speed up continental integration.

With a hard-won political lifeline in the bag, President Thabo Mbeki will make himself available for a third term as party president if asked.

Heads of State attending the African Union (AU) Summit are being urged to seriously consider the immediate deployment of the international hybrid UN/AU force to the Darfur region of Sudan in order to address the humanitarian situation there.

The summit of the African Union (AU)'s heads of State and Government will start this Sunday, in Accra, Ghana, to discuss some current pertinent issues, with highlight to the proposal to create a single African state (United States of Africa).