ACCRA, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Ghana's largely peaceful and credible presidential election was a rare example of a functioning democracy in Africa and should be a model for the continent, African leaders and voters said on Sunday.
Three renegade rebel Tuareg groups in Mali have agreed to return from their mountain hide-out and re-join the peace process in the West African state, sources said Saturday.
French secretary of state for cooperation Alain Joyandet arrived in Guinea Saturday where he will be the first senior Western official to meet with coup leaders who seized power on December 23.
First, it took the animals. Goats fell silent and refused to stand up. Chickens died in handfuls, then en masse. Street dogs disappeared.
In this African capital nearly 25 years ago, an unknown army officer staged a coup, promising democracy. He won over the people by declaring he had come to power poor, and if they ever saw him with a nice car or big house they would know he had stolen.
ACCRA, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Ghana's opposition leader John Atta Mills was declared the winner of a closely fought presidential election run-off on Saturday, sweeping his party back to power after eight years.
An oil pipeline was blown up with dynamite in Nigeria's restive south, a military official said Saturday.
CONAKRY, Dec 31 (Reuters) - Guinea's military junta, suspended by the African Union and condemned by Western donors, reached out to neighbouring governments for support this week in one of Africa's most conflict-prone regions.
ACCRA, Dec 30 (Reuters) - Ghana's electoral commission said on Tuesday it could not yet announce the result of the presidential election run-off because the contest was too close and voting still had to be held in one final constituency.
The doomed man's eyes stare blankly ahead as he shuffles down a dark corridor, spreading a hush through the death-row cells. The hangman pushes a black hood over the convict's head and tightens a noose around his neck. The trapdoor opens beneath his feet with a clang that reverberates around the stone walls. A gurgle, one last rattle of chains, then silence.
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