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Nigerian Senate votes to empower vice president
5:37AM CT
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) - The Nigerian Senate voted Tuesday to empower the vice president to take over for the nation's ill and absent president, potentially ending a constitutional crisis that has engulfed Africa's most populous nation.
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Nigerian Christians count dead after Jos violence
Feb 8 2010 7:55AM CT
JOS, Nigeria (AP) - A Christian group says 20 of its members died and another 56 remain missing after religious and political violence that consumed central Nigeria last month.
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Delays plague Somali offensive against Islamists
Feb 7 2010 9:52AM CT
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Top Somali officials are threatening to begin a military offensive against Islamist insurgents but critics — some of them demoralized soldiers — say a lack of equipment, funds and training put any ultimate success into doubt.
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Nigerian militants claim attack on Shell pipeline
Feb 7 2010 9:11AM CT
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - A Nigerian militant group claims to have attacked an oil pipeline operated by Royal Dutch Shell PLC in the Niger Delta but oil company officials could not confirm the attack.
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S.African president expresses regret over affair
Feb 7 2010 3:52AM CT
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - South Africa's polygamist president has apologized to the nation after being criticized for having an extramarital affair that resulted in a daughter born in October.
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One by one, rebels desert from army in Congo
Feb 6 2010 11:00PM CT
KIMUA, Congo (AP) - The young man had been fighting in the rebel movement for 11 years when a piece of paper fell from the sky and fluttered down onto the jungle floor.
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Danish forces free ship captured by pirates
Feb 5 2010 12:03PM CT
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Danish special forces disrupted the takeover by pirates of a cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden on Friday, in a maneuver rarely undertaken by NATO warships, a naval spokesman said.
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President's love child hits a nerve in SAfrica
Feb 5 2010 9:45AM CT
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Confirmation that President Jacob Zuma, who has three wives and a fiancee, has fathered a child with yet another woman has prompted jokes in South Africa's media but has also hit a nerve in a country hardest hit by the virus that causes AIDS.
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Man blamed for Guinea massacre: Ready for trial
Feb 5 2010 7:07AM CT
CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) - The man who tried to assassinate Guinea's now-exiled junta leader and has been blamed for a September massacre says he's ready to face international justice.
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