DAKAR, Senegal—World-music icon Youssou Ndour says he plans to run in Senegal's presidential election next month, challenging an 85-year-old incumbent whose plans to seek a third term have sparked violent protests. Mr. Ndour, who made the announcement late Monday on his private radio and TV...
Abuja- Police broke up protests over a dramatic increase in the cost of fuel Tuesday, following the Nigerian government's decision to scrap fuel subsidies on New Year's Day. Protesters had taken to the streets in the capital Abuja, as well as other cities including...
South African corn prices rose the most since October on concern local stocks are being depleted by exports while global supplies will be curbed by a drought in South America. Since the May 1 start of the marketing season South Africa has exported 1.96 million metric tons of corn, according to the...
A decision by South African wildlife parks to auction the right to hunt white rhinoceros has stirred up controversy, with lobby groups warning that the species is already under pressure from poachers. A businessman in the Kwazulu-Natal region recently paid 960,150 rands (91,500 euros) for the...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Red Cross volunteers say they are trying to reconnect 150 young children with their missing parents after tens of thousands of residents fled a massive wave of tribe-on-tribe violence in South Sudan. Violence broke out late last month between two South Sudanese tribes in the...
AFP - France vowed on Tuesday to probe failures to detect faults with the French-made breast implants at the centre of a health scare, as a supplier confirmed selling non-standard silicone to their manufacturer. A growing litany of accusations against now-defunct Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) has...
AFP - The Taliban announced on Tuesday that they had come to an "initial agreement" to open their first political overseas office, possibly in Qatar, as part of peace talks with the United States. In a statement on their purported website "Voice of Jihad", the Islamists said they had held...
