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UN pulls out of Angola's second cityThe United Nations has started to evacuate its staff from Huambo, Angola's second-largest city, after a rebel artillery barrage that killed at least eight people and wounded 20 civilians.
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Pressure mounts for Kabila to begin talks with rebelsThe Congolese president, Laurent Kabila, arrived in Paris yesterday for a summit of African leaders amid mounting fears that the four-month conflict that has ravaged his country could develop into a catastrophic war engulfing the heart of the continent.
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Africa heads towards new genocide
Southern African presidents meeting in Mauritius yesterday were faced with a dramatic military escalation of the conflict in Congo, where Angola, Zimbabwe and Namibia are backing what appears to be a new genocide.
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Suspect fingers Bin LadenTHE SECOND suspect in the bombing of the United States embassy in Kenya fingered Osama bin Laden and the terrorist group he leads for carrying out the attack, according to court papers unsealed yesterday.
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As search ends, Kenya counts cost both human and financialIN the early hours of yesterday morning, the body of the woman known as Rose was pulled from the rubble in central Nairobi.
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Rebels close in on Africa's triggerAfrica is shaped like a revolver, wrote the Martinican writer Franz Fanon, and Congo is the trigger. Since August 1 the battle for Africa's trigger has resumed in earnest.
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Carnage at the embassiesUS vows to bring bombers to justice after scores die in East Africa attacks.
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Children flee to Burundi campsSix hundred Rwandan children are camping in a huge warehouse in the Burundi capital, Bujumbura, after fleeing the southern Rwandan town of Butare.
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Blood at the bottom of the barrelApril 6 1994: On this day the presidents of Burundi and Rwanda were killed when their plane was shot down, contributing to an eruption of ethnic violence in both countries, particularly Rwanda. This is how the Guardian viewed the event.
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Sudan buckles under strain of refugeesSudan is in danger of being overwhelmed, not only by the endless columns of starving people pouring across its borders from Ethiopia and Chad, but by increasing numbers of its own refugees, heading for the cities after a disastrous 1984 harvest.
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Rhodesias ring out FederationDecember 31 1963: On this day the Central African Federation was dissolved, separating what would become Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi. This is how the Guardian reported the events.
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France on brink, and Algeria celebratesMay 25 1956: Algiers still celebrates to-day, like a painted clown in a tragedy, as the poor French nation stumbles into the night.
