Africa News

Prosecutor: Rwanda genocide suspect 'killed kids'

ARUSHA, Tanzania - A prosecutor at a U.N.-backed tribunal is accusing a Rwandan official of ordering the murder of children too weak to walk during the country's 1994 genocide.

Trial for top Zimbabwean PM's aide gets under way

Trial of top Tsvangirai aide to resume in Harare

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AFP) - - The terrorism trial of Zimbabwe's Roy Bennett, which prompted Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's government boycott was due to resume Monday in Harare.

W. Africa's last giraffes make surprising comeback

KOURE, Niger - A crisp African dawn is breaking overhead, and Zibo Mounkaila is on the back of a pickup truck bounding across a sparse landscape of rocky orange soil.

Madagascar political rivals reach government deal

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Madagascar's political rivals have agreed on posts within a transitional government that will hold power until next year's elections following a power struggle that brought months of volatility to the country, an African Union statement said.

ICC prosecutor confident over Kenya suspects

NAIROBI (AFP) - - Top war crimes prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said on Saturday he has a strong case against the masterminds behind last year's post-election violence in Kenya.

Zimbabwe's premier counting on South Africa

Tsvangirai calls off Zimbabwe unity government boycott

MAPUTO (AFP) - - Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Thursday called off a boycott of power-sharing ties with President Robert Mugabe that had paralysed the fragile unity government for three weeks.