Angola will cut down 99,000 barrels a day from its current daily output estimated at about two million barrels, Angop learned.

Citing the current global financial crisis, which has slowed demand for oil, the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), yesterday at its 150th Extraordinary Meeting in Vienna, Austria agreed to cut its current production of 28.808 million barrels a day

Members of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) and the Nigerian Union of Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) have called off their proposed strike scheduled to have commenced at the end of a 14-day ultimatum given

Renowned Egyptian blogger Nora Younis has received the annual human rights award from a prominent US-based organization, Human Rights First, for her extraordinary efforts defending human rights issues and advocating for the democracy movement in Egypt.

UN-backed talks have opened will open in Djibouti on Saturday in a bid to end the civil conflict that has raged in Somalia for nearly two decades.

A Kenyan Human Rights Expert says lessons from countries that have had truth commissions indicate that the concept and objectives are noble, but the process of implementation is often compromised by political imperatives and the need to sidestep costly reparations.

The Military Court of Kigali Friday acquitted two senior Rwandan army officers but convicted two other juniors for their roles in the murder in June 1994 in Kabgayi, central Rwanda, of 13 officials of the Catholic Church, including three Bishops,

The October 23 conviction by a military tribunal of 15 soldiers for the massacre of 31 civilians in Muyinga province in 2006 is an important blow against impunity in Burundi, Human Rights Watch said today. The series of killings is

Men of the military Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta yesterday killed five gunmen after exchanging fire at Cawthorne Channel, an area in Rivers State, a military spokesman said yesterday.

The problems that sparked the crisis following last December's contested Kenyan presidential elections must be dealt with, a top United Nations human rights official said, wrapping up a visit to the East African nation.

The Kenyan border troops have clashed with armed Somali men wanted to stick up Kenyan vehicle on Friday according to eyewitnesses.

Mortar shells rained down Friday evening on the airport in Baidoa, the seat of the parliament, about 250kms south of Mogadishu, residents told Shabelle.

A Singapore registered ship, the Kota Hening, was attacked by suspected Somali pirates on Thursday night in Kenya's territorial waters, 180 nautical miles from Mombasa port.

The Waki report lacks sufficient evidence to try suspects both locally and internationally, Attorney-General Amos Wako said on Friday.