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Angola's main opposition called on Friday for the August 31 national election to be postponed for a month to allow time to correct a lack of transparency in the poll and violations of the electoral law. Campaigning for the election, only the second in...

The editor of an independent Egyptian daily has been released from jail, just hours after the country's Islamist president issued a law that bans the imprisonment of journalists accused of media-related offences. The case against Islam Afifi sparked an...

Senegal and the African Union have signed an agreement to set up a special tribunal to try Chad's former leader Hissene Habre. The 69-year-old has been been under house arrest since 2005 in Senegal, where he fled after being deposed. He denies charges...

A £15.3 million (US$24 million) fund to build links between African research laboratories and strengthen their research capacity through mentoring has been launched by the Royal Society (the UK's science academy) and the UK Department for International...

La Libye ira à l'encontre de la demande de la Cour pénale internationale (CPI) et jugera elle-même le fils de l'ancien dictateur Mouammar Kadhafi, a annoncé le représentant de la Libye à la CPI lundi. Ahmed al-Jehani a déclaré que le procès de Saïf al-Islam...

Le premier ministre éthiopien, Meles Zenawi, est décédé dans la nuit du lundi 20 au mardi 21 août, a annoncé le porte-parole du gouvernement éthiopien, Bereket Simon. Poids lourd parmi les dirigeants africains, M. Zenawi, 57 ans, dirigeait l'Ethiopie...

Twice as many business executives around the world say the global economy will prosper better if incumbent U.S. president Barack Obama wins the next election than if his Republican challenger Mitt Romney does, a poll showed on Friday. Democrat Mr. Obama...

Les étudiants et lycéens chiliens ont réactivé cette semaine leur mouvement de protestation entamé en mai 2011 en occupant le bâtiment principal de l'Université du Chili et une dizaine de lycées de Santiago, a-t-on appris auprès de leurs fédérations....

La condamnation à trois ans de prison de Nabil Radjab, l'un des chefs de file de l'opposition à Bahreïn, pour sa participation aux manifestations antigouvernementales, a provoqué l'inquiétude de nombreux pays occidentaux. M. Radjab a été condamné à trois...

South African President Jacob Zuma on Wednesday urged Zimbabwe's rival leaders to speed up political reforms seen as critical to avoiding another violent and disputed election, but President Robert Mugabe signalled he would not be pushed into endorsing...

Réunis en sommet extraordinaire à La Mecque, en Arabie Saoudite, les pays musulmans ont décidé, ce jeudi 16 août, de suspendre la Syrie de l'Organisation de la coopération islamique (OCI). « Ce monde ne peut plus accepter un régime qui massacre son peuple...

Bill Gates is, in a manner of speaking, flushing his money down the toilet. His charitable organisation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is looking for future loos that can improve sanitation around the world. At the Reinvent the Toilet fair, hosted...

Bus driver Luiz Bezerra used to have just one thought on mind as he climbed the crumbling steps to Cantagalo every evening. It was this one thought that drove him on far more than the oppressive humidity or the sweat beading on his forehead: "How will...

Pour la première fois depuis le début de l'occupation du nord du Mali par des groupes islamistes fin mars, une foule de 50.000 à 60.000 personnes s'est rassemblée dimanche dans un stade de Bamako pour appeler à "la paix et à la réconciliation" dans leur...

Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi has ordered the retirement of the powerful head of the country's armed forces, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, a presidential spokesman has said. No explanation has so far been given. President Mursi, who was elected in...