Two foreign journalists — a Briton and a Spaniard — were released in good health Sunday after nearly six weeks in captivity in Somalia, officials said.
Ugandan rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army have clashed with government forces in a national park in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo, local officials said Saturday.
Kenya's president has signed into law a media bill that opponents say threatens the country's hard-fought reputation for having one of Africa's most vigorous press.
MOGADISHU, Jan 3 (Reuters) - At least seven people were killed in fighting between rival Islamist groups in Somalia on Saturday, one of the factions said.
Three African nations are deploying troops to remote eastern Congo after reports that Ugandan rebels killed more than 400 people in a series of massacres since Christmas, officials said Wednesday.
BUJUMBURA, Dec 30 (Reuters) - Burundi's last rebel group on Tuesday said it would miss a Dec. 31 deadline to transform itself into a political party because of failures to fully implement a 2006 peace plan.
Attackers wielding machetes hacked to death dozens of people at a church in remote eastern Congo, witnesses said Monday, and the Ugandan army accused the Lord's Resistance Army rebels of the massacre.
BAIDOA, Somalia, Dec 29 (Reuters) - Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf resigned on Monday, ending a deadlock at the top of the interim government and paving the way for a new administration in the anarchic Horn of Africa nation.
One of Somalia's two prime ministers resigned Wednesday, bringing the feuding, divided government one step closer to reunion.
MOGADISHU, Dec 24 (Reuters) - Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf has decided to resign and is expected to announce his departure on Saturday, his spokesman said on Friday.
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