Africa
'Economic cleansing' in BBC's World Cup backyard
Evictions are designed to improve South Africa's image, campaigners say
Inside Africa
Egypt frees Israeli reporter a week after arrest
Monday, 22 March 2010
An Israeli journalist detained by Egyptian border guards a week ago has been released and repatriated, the Israeli embassy said on Monday.
South Africa marks anniversary of Sharpeville massacre
Sunday, 21 March 2010
South Africans gathered in Sharpeville today, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the massacre that brought the country's black rights movement to the world's attention.
Riots in Soweto after hip-hop star given bail
Saturday, 20 March 2010
South African police fired water cannon at angry youths and children protesting at a court decision to grant bail to a hip-hop artist accused of killing four children in a drag race.
The disfigured statue of Henry Morton Stanley, we presume
Friday, 19 March 2010
A campaign to restore a memorial to the explorer has reopened the scars left by colonial rule in the Congo. Katrina Manson reports from Kinshasa
Belgium and a new row over the Congo
Friday, 19 March 2010
Belgium has been attempting to smooth over its strained relations with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), but the latest effort by the Defence minister has badly backfired.
Ugandan royal tomb fire stokes tensions between government and king
Thursday, 18 March 2010
Ugandan forces shoot at protesters trying to block President from historic site
Wife budget doubled for President Jacob Zuma
Thursday, 18 March 2010
South Africa's opposition leader was yesterday accused of "cultural chauvinism" after she criticised the cost to the state of President Jacob Zuma's three wives.
Nigeria's stand-in leader Goodluck Jonathan sacks cabinet
Thursday, 18 March 2010
Nigeria's Acting President, Goodluck Jonathan, dissolved the cabinet last night in a bid to consolidate his authority at the helm of Africa's most populous nation a month after he assumed executive powers.
The rebellion of Ethiopia's abducted wives
Wednesday, 17 March 2010
Kidnapped. Raped. Married. Johann Hari on forced marriages in Africa
Nigeria is falling apart, says Nobel prize-winning author
Tuesday, 16 March 2010
Veteran writer and activist Wole Soyinka says his country is now a failed state. Daniel Howden reports from Lagos
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