Africa

• Russia: Will work with US, EU to stop pirates
  AP (October 03, 2008)
  MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Six U.S. warships circled a hijacked ship off Somalia and a Russian frigate headed toward the standoff Friday, while Russia called for naval forces gathering in the area to coordinate their efforts against piracy.
   
  
• Kenya, US fight over travel ban for officials
  AP (October 03, 2008)
  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - A diplomatic dispute was brewing Friday between America and Kenya over a potential visa ban for Kenyan officials who oversaw last year's catastrophic elections.
   
  
• Group calls for free malaria treatment in Africa
  AP (September 30, 2008)
  JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - Making tests and treatment for malaria free dramatically increases the number of people who seek treatment for the disease that kills 1 million people a year, an international medical aid group said Tuesday.
   
  
• Zimbabweans overwhelm banks seeking cash
  AP (September 29, 2008)
  HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - Tens of thousands of Zimbabweans lined up at banks Monday, desperate to take out their money after the government raised the limit on daily withdrawals.
   
  
• Sudan to lobby UN to avert president's prosecution
  AP (September 22, 2008)
  CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Sudan officials plan a behind-the-scenes lobbying effort at the United Nations this week to avert the prosecution of the country's longtime president on charges of genocide in Darfur.
   
  
• Nigerian police release detained reporters
  AP (September 19, 2008)
  LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Nigerian security agents have released three reporters arrested over an erroneous report claiming the president would step down on health grounds.
   
  
• Torture trial set for ex-Liberian leader's son
  AP (September 19, 2008)
  MIAMI (AP) - Federal prosecutors say former Liberian President Charles Taylor's son poured molten plastic on the skin of the regime's opponents, rubbed salt in their wounds and shocked them with electricity during a horrific three-year campaign of intimidation in Africa.
   
  
• Militants: they have destroyed Nigeria oil line
  AP (September 17, 2008)
  LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Militants say they have destroyed an oil pipeline that crosses southern Nigeria in the latest attack to hit the restive crude-pumping region.
   
  
• Thieves try to rob Barack Obama's Kenyan relatives
  AP (September 11, 2008)
  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Barack Obama's uncle says thieves tried to break into the home of the U.S. presidential candidate's Kenyan relatives.
   
  
• Mugabe, Tsvangirai hold power-sharing talks
  AP (September 09, 2008)
  HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai are meeting in a fresh round of power-sharing talks.