ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar - Three political leaders from Madagascar say they are going ahead with forming a unity government, but a fourth politician says that amounts to a coup. Andry Rajoelina did not attend a round of negotiations in Mozambique th
BAGHDAD Four large bombs exploded near education facilities, judicial complexes and other targets in Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 127 people and triggering recriminations against the Iraqi government and its security forces. Nearly 500 peop
LAGOS - The health of Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua, who has been hospitalised for two weeks in Saudi Arabia for a serious heart condition, has sparked a lively public debate in one of Africa's powerhouses. Amid growing calls for his resignatio
KHARTOUM - Three senior leaders of the southern former rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement were freed on Monday after being briefly held in a police crackdown against a protest, an AFP reporter said. SPLM secretary general Pagan Amum, deputy s
KHARTOUM - Sudanese police detained three senior opposition figures from the south's ruling party on Monday including a state minister in a crackdown against a planned protest, an AFP reporter witnessed. Pagan Amum, Yassir Arman and Abbas Gumma fro
RABAT/CONAKRY - The health of Guinea's junta leader is not a cause for concern, the chief doctor at Morocco's main military hospital said on Sunday after Moussa Dadis Camara was treated for head wounds from a gun attack. A government source in the
HAVANA - Cuba hit back Thursday at 60 prominent U.S. black leaders who challenged its race record, with island writers, artists and official journalists calling the criticism an attack on their country's national identity. The five-page signed state
US lawmakers have rolled out business leaders who back action on climate change, hoping to counter criticism that a deal at this month's Copenhagen summit would hit the wobbly US economy. Four days before the high-stakes climate meeting opens in the
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