Sudan: Dozens Die In Airliner Fire

A Sudanese airliner erupted into flames after landing in Khartoum late Tuesday night, killing dozens of people. Read more »

Africa: Soccer Fans See Comebacks, Surprises and Family Affairs

The last two weekends of qualifiers for the next African Cup of Nations and World Cup 2010 tournaments were characterized by a number of themes: a North African comeback, the… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Mugabe Using Food as Political Tool, Says U.S.

The American ambassador to Harare has lashed out at the Zimbabwean government, accusing it of using food as a political tool. Read more »

Zimbabwe: Opposition Leaders Gloomy on Run-off Election

Zimbabwean opposition leaders have expressed deep pessimism over the potential of the June 27 presidential election run-off to end the country's political crisis. Read more »

Africa: Things Go Worse With Oppression, Says Coke

Economies can grow in countries which do not meet Western standards for democracy, says Neville Isdell, the world-wide head of The Coca-Cola Company. But once they are growing,… Read more »

Liberia: Market Women Raise Funds in New York

A group of newly-painted red and yellow buildings lines United Nations Drive in Monrovia, Liberia's capital city. The buildings provide shelter for dozens of market women who spend… Read more »

South Africa: Ugly Politics Aggravate Xenophobia

The attacks on migrants from elsewhere in Africa in South Africa recently are not simply a result of xenophobia. They are a product of ugly, debased politics in which mainstream… Read more »

Africa: Kenyan PM Attacks Continent's Leaders

Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga launched a slashing attack on Africa's leaders at the World Economic Forum for Africa on Wednesday. Read more »

South Africa: Leaders Deal With Bars to Nigerian Business

Obstacles to Nigerians doing business in South Africa appear to have received as much attention in talks during President Umaru Yar'Adua's state visit to South Africa as recent… Read more »

Africa: Yar'Adua Explains Stand on Africom

President Umaru Yar'Adua reiterated in South Africa Tuesday that he had asked the United States to give military assistance to groupings of African nations, but that he had… Read more »

Somalia: UN Security Council Pushes Peace Process

The United Nations Security Council is beginning a 10-day, five-nation mission to Africa with a drive to support the Somali peace talks being held in neighbouring Djibouti. Read more »

Liberia: Soccer Fans Die at World Cup Match

At least eight people died of suffocation caused by overcrowding at the stadium where Liberia faced the Gambia in a soccer match Sunday, according to published news reports in… Read more »

Liberia: Defense Attempts to Undermine Samuel Kargbo's Testimony

The monitors of former President Charles Taylor's trial report for www.charlestaylortrial.org Read more »

Africa: Big or Small, Soccer Teams Race for World Cup

More than 40 soccer teams from across Africa this weekend join the race for one of the prize slots in the 2010 World Cup and in the African Cup of Nations finals. Read more »

Sudan: Abyei Conflict Threatens to Escalate

Sudan could be sliding back into a national civil war. Read more »

Chad/Sudan: World Cup Qualifier Called Off

This weekend's soccer World Cup qualifying match between Chad and Sudan has been called off, news agencies are reporting. Read more »

Africa: Soccer Teams Compete for 2010 Places

Most of Africa's national soccer teams are heading for stadia around the continent this weekend, only four months after the Cup of Nations ended in Ghana with Egypt pocketing a… Read more »

Sudan: U.S. Candidates Urge End to Darfur Violence

All three remaining United States presidential candidates have demanded that the "genocide and violence in Darfur be brought to an end" in an advertisement in Wednesday's… Read more »

Kenya: Top Community Organizer Empowers Youth

Kenyan health care advocate, activist and academic Dr. Miriam K. Were is in Japan today to receive a major new prize established by the Japanese government, the Hideyo Noguchi… Read more »

South Africa: The Mathematics of Migration

Unreliable and inflated statistics on the number of foreign nationals in South Africa have contributed to the growth of the xenophobia which has triggered violence against them,… Read more »

Africa: The Meaning of Africa Day

Oh, that sunset on the beach of Sali, south of Dakar… the peace and quiet of the mountains of Lesotho… the beat of Mozambican, Cape Verdean and Angolan music…… Read more »

South Africa: A Cape Town Suburb Copes With Refugees

Violence or the threat of it has forced an estimated 20,000 migrants out of their homes to places of temporary shelter in Cape Town. AllAfrica intern Faatimah Hendricks blogs on… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Belgium Arrests Former VP

The former vice president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Jean Pierre Bemba, was arrested on war crimes charges in Belgium Saturday. Read more »

Africa: Food Crisis Threatens Democracy

More than half the nations of the world in which riots have broken out over food prices are in Africa, says Julius E. Coles, president of Africare, a U.S.-based organization which… Read more »

Senegal: Entrepreneurs Chosen For Unique Award

Thirty African social entrepreneurs have been selected by a U.S.-based organization for an ambitious program designed to help them achieve their desired social yields. Read more »