Islamists in southern Somalia have stoned a man to death for adultery but spared his pregnant girlfriend until she gives birth.
Abas Hussein Abdirahman, 33, was killed in front of a crowd of some 300 people in the port town of Merka.
An official from the al-Shabab group said the woman would be killed after she has [...]

Colleagues of Republic of Congo President Denis Sassou-Nguesso have denied claims that his biography invented comments from Nelson Mandela.
Alain Akouala, former communications minister in Congo, accused Mr Mandela’s aides of treating the anti-apartheid icon’s name “like a brand”.
He told the BBC the foreword came from a 1997 speech made by Mr Mandela.
The Nelson Mandela Foundation [...]

Southern African leaders meeting in the Democratic Republic of Congo have called for the removal of all international sanctions on Zimbabwe. The call came at the end of a two-day summit of the regional grouping, SADC.
The BBC’s Karen Allen, in Kinshasa, says the statement is being seen as a significant victory for Zimbabwe’s President [...]

Not too long ago, President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua was the official guest of Imo state Government. The occasion was the official cross carpeting of Imo state governor Ikedi Ohakim from the Peoples Progressive Alliance (PPA) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from whence he came. Still not long before that, Mr. President again had also [...]

The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mr. Mohammed Barkindo, has said Nigeria has lost about $120 million to recent attacks on oil facilities in the Niger Delta Area and Lagos.
The revelation by NNPC GMD came just as it was also revealed by a senior military officer, attached to the office [...]

The world, particularly Africa, is agog with the news of Barack Obama’s triumphant entry to Ghana this week, Obama-mania erupting across the nation. Whilst some African nations are busy licking their wounds, making various excuses for why the most powerful and popular man in the world chose Ghana ahead of them, most are simply relishing [...]

Whatever stance one has taken on the credibility of TB Joshua, the famous (or infamous?) pastor of The Synagogue Church of All Nation’s in Lagos, Nige ria – one fact remains indisputable, his is an incredible journey surrounded in mystery and being written in history. Joshua is easily the most vilified pastor in Africa, yet [...]

Virtually abandoned and discarded by a bankrupt government she has worked for almost thirty years, my sister Zanele Ngwenya, fifty five, languishes in a dilapidated hospital ward after a bone-crunching automobile accident.
To term the United Bulawayo Hospital [UBH] a ‘hospital’ is an overstatement. Almost thirty years under the clutches of a senseless, abusive dictatorship, Zimbabwe’s [...]

The $8 million in food and educational assistance pledged Monday by Britain brings the total raised by Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai to about $115 million. It falls far short of the

Nigeria’s main militant group said Sunday it sabotaged three more oil facilities in the restive Niger Delta in response to a military offensive begun last in the region.
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, or MEND, said in a statement e-mailed to journalists that the group had destroyed two Royal Dutch Shell oil [...]