Ivory Coast's electoral commission said it had produced a final voter list for the first time, raising the chance that an election which has been delayed six times in five years might go ahead. "The list is finalised. We are respecting the schedule," electoral commission spokesman Nicolas Coulibaly said.

The poll, scheduled for October…

German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, has promised her country will provide Malawi with more aid.

A report in the German Deutsche Presse Agentur (DPA) said she told visiting President Bingu wa Mutharika: “We want to help Malawi advance in the fight on poverty and reaching the Millennium Development Goals.”

Mutharika, who also visited Port…

Former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has cautioned Africa countries not to glamorize coup makers and called for total condemnation of any such unconstitutional takeovers of democratic governments.

He said such military adventurism was detrimental to any country's development and growth, adding, "If a military officer wants to govern,…

The death toll from cholera outbreak in Migori and Kuria West district about five hundred kilometers west of Nairobi has now hit eight after three more people succumbed to the disease.

According to the Nyanza Provincial Director of Medical Services Dr. Ojwang Lusi whose province covers the two districts, 146 people had since been treated and discharged…

The Mozambique got back to work on Friday after two days of rioting, triggered by a sharp hike in bread prices, which the government said left seven dead, 288 injured. Buses resumed normal service and people returned to their jobs, walking along streets strewn with debris, burnt tyres, broken electricity poles and garbage from looted shops. Seven people,…

South Africa has strongly criticised Madagascar over the life sentence passed on exiled President Marc Ravalomanana last week. Such sentences would not help end Madagascar's political turmoil, said International Relations and Cooperation Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane.

Ravalomanana has been living in South Africa since March 2009, when he was…

International leaders expressed their commitment to transforming agriculture in Africa while opening the inaugural African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) in Accra, Ghana. The AGRF, chaired by former UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, is being held for the first time in Africa.

With more than 800 delegates it is one of the continent’s major gatherings…

South Africa will stop at the end of the year a special deal granted to thousands of Zimbabweans, who were allowed to enter Africa's largest economy without documents, a cabinet spokesman said. The special dispensation was introduced in April last year during political instability in Zimbabwe, where hundreds of thousands flee to SA.

"After…

Interest groups in poultry and livestock business are looking up to a more rationalized national economic policy that favours indigenous Ghanaian farmers. They are worried the influx of imported poultry products threatens food security and employment generation for the youth.

Poultry farmers in the Ashanti region have been attending a seminar on “Guides…

In a horrific Hollywood style horror movie enactment, three members of the same family died when they threw themselves in a raging fire - one after another. Five children from one family were allegedly misled by a pastor beyond their physical and emotional control.

The scenario also had great depictions of a Nigerian Nollywood witchcraft spoof.

Beamed…

The EU said supporting the AU Mission in Somalia is "crucial" to prevent the security situation from deteriorating. The European Commission was contributing nearly $60 million to assist AMISOM's peacekeeping force in the country. Catherine Ashton, the EU high representative for foreign affairs, said supporting AMISOM was vital for the…

South Africa's public sector strike set to continue SA's public sector strike is set to continue after the main trade union federation rejected an improved wage offer from the government. The Cosatu federation said the majority of its affiliated unions had voted against the proposal. The strike - now into its third week - has seen many schools…

Religious leaders have postponed a meeting in Casamance, Senegal to discuss the way forward to bring lasting peace in the war turn Senegalese Southern Region.

An initial talks led by Sheikh Papa Ndiaye a spiritual leader was characterized by prayers with recitation from the Quran in his spiritual worship place in Pachala Village situated six kilometres…

The African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) has express solidarity with women politicians in Malawi where the future of women's political representation is under serious threat following the country's ruling Democratic People's Party (DPP) campaigns launched against its own member, the Honorable Vice President…

Kenyan government on Tuesday announced its population increase of around 10 million since the last census in 1999 making 38.6 million people after a national census conducted last year.

Kenya’s Planning Minister, Wycliffe Oparanya, said the increase of about one million people per year puts pressure on resources and he urged for more investment…

Police fired rubber bullets and teargas as they clashed with demonstrators who burned tyres and blocked roads in protests against rising prices in the capital of impoverished Mozambique, witnesses said. Riots spread throughout Maputo and there were reports of shops being vandalised, the witnesses said.

Residents of the southern African state say they…

At least nine civilians were killed and thirty others wounded in a roadside bomb that hit a minibus in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu. The explosion ripped through the bus as it plied the only road connecting the divided city which is also used by the Somali force and AU peacekeepers.

The roadside bomb exploded near the former compound of Jale Siad…

Islamist rebel militias asked Somali president Sharif Sheikh Ahmed to step down as he had failed establishing order in the country. "President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed ought to leave. He has nothing for the people except a call for more foreign troops that massacre Somalis," Hassan Dahir Aweys, leader of Hisbul Islam, told reporters.

The leader…

American aid worker has been freed in the Sudanese war-torn region of Darfur, the Foreign Ministry said. Flavia Wagner, 35, who was working for U.S. charity Samaritan's Purse in Darfur, arrived in Khartoum on Monday.

Armed men had held Wagner since May for ransom in Sudan's west. The armed men kidnapped the woman and two Sudanese working…

More than a quarter of a million Ethiopians are at risk from heavy floods which are expected next month, according to a forecast issued by the United Nations.

"Some 270,000 people could be affected by flooding in the Amhara region," The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a statement.

The office also…