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Antananarivo - Around 8,000 demonstrators marched through the capital of the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar Wednesday in support of Antananarivo ex-mayor Andry Rajoelina, who is embroiled in a bitter power struggle with President Marc Ravalomanana.
The 34-year-old former mayor who last week unilaterally declared himself the...
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Nairobi/Addis Ababa - Long-term Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi was Monday elected new chairman of the African Union during a summit in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa.
The 66-year-old immediately vowed to push on with his pet project, the creation of a United States of Africa.
However, Gaddafi admitted that there was much work to...
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Geneva - Nearly two months after Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe declared that the cholera outbreak in his country had been "arrested" the number of dead continues to climb, passing 3,000 this week, the United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said.
As of Tuesday, 3,028 people had died and...
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Cairo - International Middle East peace envoy Tony Blair has called for "a new strategy in Gaza," in remarks made in Cairo on Wednesday, and admitted that the international community's approach to the Palestinian territory had not worked.
"We need a new strategy for Gaza," Blair told reporters after meeting with...
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Cairo - European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana on Tuesday met with Egyptian President Hosny Mubarak in Cairo for talks on the situation in the Gaza Strip.
The two discussed efforts to consolidate a lasting ceasefire, opening Gaza's borders to facilitate humanitarian aid for Palestinians, and Egypt's efforts to reconcile...
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Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Thursday said he would forge ahead with forming a unity government even though he did not regard President Robert Mugabe as a "credible partner."
Tsvangirai told journalists in South Africa on Thursday that he planned to return home on Saturday for a meeting with regional...
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The United Nations Children's Fund has expressed growing concern over the collapse of public services in Zimbabwe, where unhygienic conditions were also affecting pregnant women and newborns.
"We hear reports of pregnant women crossing the border to give birth outside of the country," UNICEF Executive Director Ann M Veneman...
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Every day 1,500 women die of avoidable complications in pregnancy in childbirth, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said in a report released Thursday.
The overall figure stood at 10 million women since 1990, with women in Africa south of the Sahara and south Asia most at risk, the report titled The State of the World's...
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Floods caused by heavy rains in Mozambique have claimed at least 25 deaths since December, officials said in reports published Wednesday, stressing that there was, however, no cause for alarm.
National Disaster Management Institute (INGC), General Director, Joao Ribiero, was quoted in the Noticias newspaper as saying: "The heavy...
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Cambodian police said on Wednesday they had arrested a Canadian man who allegedly sexually abused two young girls in the costal resort town of Sihanoukville.
Police arrested 68-year-old Daniel Lavigne on a tourist bus travelling from Sihanoukville to Phnom Penh on Monday after he allegedly sexually abused two sisters aged 10 and...
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Today is Thursday, June 5
the 157th day of 2008 with 209 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and...
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 A culinary journey through Crete
Almost as soon as you set foot on the southern Mediterranean island of Crete the poignant smell of oregano, wild flowers and wild teas tickles your senses while the...
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