South Sudanese President Salva Kiir has suspended two key ministers in a fraud investigation, the government said on Wednesday. Western donors have warned South Sudan's government that aid payments are at risk unless it tackles the corruption undermining development in a country devastated from decades of civil war with Sudan, from which it seceded in 2011. Last year, Kiir wrote to 75 current and former off ...

Somali and African Union forces have regained control of a United Nations compound in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, attacked by gunmen who killed at least 15 people, officials have said. The gun battle lasted an hour-and-a-half that followed an explosion at the site killing at least four foreign security staff, the Somali government said on Wednesday. Somali Interior Minister Abdikarim Hussein Guled told r ...

A Tunisian court sentenced six men to five years in prison on Tuesday for attacking visitors to a famous Sufi Muslim shrine in Tunis, the capital, and for setting the shrine on fire. The attack was carried out last October by ultraconservative Salafi Muslims who consider the Sufi practice of visiting and praying at tombs to be heretical. Salafi Muslims in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia have pressed for a larger r ...

Uganda's foreign minister has warned foreign envoys in the country not to interfere in the East African nation's internal affairs. Henry Okello Oryem says he has told the envoys to use regular diplomatic channels with President Yoweri Museveni's government to resolve their concerns about governance issues. The Foreign Minister said Ambassadors and other diplomatic missions come with clear terms of reference ...

Clashes erupted between supporters and opponents of Egypt's president and his Muslim Brotherhood Tuesday over his appointment of new Islamist governors, some in areas where opponents are strong. The protests signaled increasing tension in the deeply polarized nation ahead of mass protests demanding the ouster of the president, Mohammed Morsi, who marks his first year in power June 30. On Sunday, Morsi appoi ...

Mali signed a ceasefire deal with Tuareg separatist rebels on Tuesday, paving the way for government troops to return to the northern, rebel-held town of Kidal before a presidential election next month. At the heart of a region plagued by poverty and Islamic militancy, Mali won a 3.25 billion euros (2.7 billion pounds) Western aid package last month aimed at shoring up democracy and helping it recover from ...

Seven soldiers were shot dead when gunmen raided a weapons depot in Mozambique, local newspapers and a security source said on Tuesday, the latest ambush and attack on security forces to rekindle memories of the 1975-1992 civil war. The assault, which took place on Monday, forced hundreds to flee the central town of Savane and interrupted rail traffic on the nearby Sena line, the southern African nation's s ...

Five soldiers were shot dead when gunmen raided a weapons store in Mozambique, local newspapers said on Tuesday, the latest ambush and attack on security forces to rekindle memories of the 1975-1992 civil war. The assault, which took place on Monday, forced hundreds to flee the central town of Savane and interrupted trains on the nearby Sena line, the southern African nation's sole coal export route, said a ...

Mali has reached a deal with Tuareg separatist rebels paving the way for Malian government troops to return to the rebel-held northern town of Kidal ahead of planned elections in July, Mali's chief negotiator said on Tuesday. "The accord is ready to be signed," Tiebile Drame told Reuters in the Burkina Faso capital Ouagadougou where talks have been taking place for over a week. "I can tell you that the inte ...

 Southern African leaders on Saturday told Zimbabwe to ask its courts to extend a July 31 deadline to hold elections, amid high tension between President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai over the timing of the vote. The summit of the 15-nation Southern African Development Community (SADC) in the Mozambican capital came two days after Mugabe declared the election day, a date immediately rej ...