Section: Africa
- Angola (92)
- Ghana (31)
- Kenya (410)
- Liberia (28)
- Libya (187)
- Morocco (51)
- Nigeria (1,369)
- South Africa (2,850)
- South Sudan (18)
- Sudan (12)
- Swaziland (1)
- Tanzania (552)
News24.com | Ukraine, rebels agree to tank withdrawal
Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists have agreed to extend a pull-back of weapons in east Ukraine to include tanks and smaller weapons systems. …read more Source:...
Broader probe could affect east of Ukraine
Court to probe suspected war crimes committed in bitter fighting between Ukrainian forces and pro-Moscow rebels that claimed thousands of lives …read more Source: Business...
ICG: Syrian gambit will not erase Putin’s Ukraine problem
If Russia really wants to pull out of Ukraine, it has to wind up a small but stubborn political local leadership and a quite large militia structure of at least 20,000 fighters. It will discover that separatist leaders have developed their own, usually corrupt, interests, and may not go quietly, and that fighters, abandoned to their own...
News24.com | Ukrainian pilot says she was smuggled into Russia
Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko, on trial for the murder of two Russian journalists, says she was captured by pro-Kremlin separatists and then smuggled into Russia. …read more Source:...
Obama and Putin fail to make any breakthrough on Syria
President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s first formal meeting in more than two years started with an awkward handshake and ended without a breakthrough on Syria, a crisis that has strained their already tense relationship. On the biggest issue that divides them in Syria – the status of embattled leader Bashar Assad –...
Bring it on: Porto’s Maicon relishing Costa duel in Champions League clash with Chelsea.
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 – Porto captain Maicon is relishing the chance to face Diego Costa in his side’s Champions League clash with Chelsea. The 27-year-old centre-back, who has made 159 appearances for the club, admits that the Spanish international is many a defender’s nightmare due to his confrontational style, but...
US, Russia clash over working with Assad
The US and Russia agreed to try and end the Syrian civil war but then disgreed over whether President Bashar al-Assad should be included. ||| United Nations – The United States said on Monday it was willing to work with Russia, as well as Iran, to try to end the Syrian civil war but the two big powers clashed over whether or not Syrian...
Obama ‘prepared to work’ with Russia, Iran on Syria
President Barack Obama declared Monday that the United States does not want a new Cold War over the Ukraine conflict and is prepared to work with Russia and Iran on the Syrian crisis. “The United… …read more Source:...
Ukraine energy minister indicates Russia Q4 gas price will be less than $228
Ukrainian Energy Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn indicated on Monday that the price Ukraine was willing to pay Russia for gas supplies in the fourth qua …read more Source: The New...
Syria Conflict: Russia Wants ‘Coordination’ Against IS
Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin, has again reiterated his support for Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, saying the latter is fighting terrorist organisations, and Russia “will be pleased to find common ground for joint action against the terrorists”.In a television interview in the United States (US), Mr. Putin also called for a...
