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Thousands flee Comoros volcanic eruption
Apr 18 2005 9:25PM (CT)
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - A volcano erupted on the main island of the Comoros archipelago in the Indian Ocean early Monday, sending thousands of people fleeing, officials said. No deaths or injuries were reported.
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Axum Obelisk to return to Ethiopia
Apr 18 2005 7:55PM (CT)
AXUM, Ethiopia (AP) - A teenage Abebe Alenayehu watched Italian soldiers haul away Axum's revered obelisk nearly seven decades ago and never thought he would live to see its return.
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U.N. panel widens Congo arms embargo
Apr 18 2005 6:09PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The Security Council voted unanimously Monday to widen the U.N. arms embargo in Congo as part of stepped-up efforts to bring peace to the sprawling African country's volatile east.
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Mugabe rejects Western-style democracy
Apr 18 2005 2:48PM (CT)
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - With Chinese-made jet fighters zooming overhead, President Robert Mugabe marked Zimbabwe's 25th independence anniversary Monday with defiance, saying he had no need for Western-style democracy or aid from the West because "we have turned East."
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Uganda's elephant population swells
Apr 18 2005 12:39PM (CT)
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - The once-threatened elephant population in Uganda's Queen Elizabeth National Park increased by more than 1,000 during the past three years, partly because of animals fleeing poachers and civil war in neighboring Congo, a government wildlife official said Monday.
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Catholics steer delicate course in Africa
Apr 18 2005 8:45AM (CT)
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Winding its way across Africa is an invisible faultline between a mainly Muslim north and a majority Christian south. Across this front, somewhere in the scrubland south of the Sahara desert, tensions flare between increasingly strident Christian movements aggressively working to convert people of other faiths and an Islamic world wary of encroaching Western influences.
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