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Talks on a new global warming agreement have begun to resolve some major sticking points, the U.N. climate chief said Wednesday, sounding a promising note after months of sluggish negotiations often marked by ...

A former Liberian warlord whose drugged fighters once appeared on camera holding up a human heart dodged questions Wednesday and refused to accept any wrongdoing during an appearance before a public commission.

Kidnappers freed the head of the U.N. refugee agency's office in Somalia on Wednesday but rising insecurity forced Medecins Sans Frontieres to close a clinic in Mogadishu that provided essential health care to ...

The hijackers of a Sudanese airliner that was forced to land in Libya surrendered on Wednesday following negotiations with the Libyan authorities, state news agency Jana reported.

An Australian and a Canadian journalist kidnapped by Islamist insurgents in Somalia together with their translator have not been harmed, an organisation that defends media freedom says.

Somalia's President Abdullahi Yusuf and his prime minister signed a deal on Tuesday to work together after a weeks-long rift that threatened to wreck their interim government.

Defense Minister Ehud Barak met on Tuesday afternoon with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

The 27-year-old woman and her husband already had three children - all girls. They badly wanted a boy, and she had not conceived in five years, so doctors gave her hormones.

Tue, Aug 26, 2008 One of Liberia's most infamous warlords admitted Tuesday that he had trained in Libya and helped topple the government of Burkina Faso before overthrowing Liberia's president.

Logging of a Ghanaian forest submerged 40 years ago by a hydroelectric dam could point to an underwater timber bonanza worth billions of dollars in tropical countries, a senior Ghanaian official said on Monday.

The old shore road to Totope is now under the sea, and when developers began carving out another one, it was washed away so often they abandoned it. Now the road to this village is just a track across the sand.

On this southern coast of Ghana, the Atlantic Ocean is rising. Every few years, residents of a string of villages leave their homes and build new ones farther back, abandoning them to the encroaching sand and water.

'When I was young, you had to climb a coconut tree to see the sea,' said Alex Horgah, a 57-year-old fisherman, sitting under a thatch shelter. The old men of the village say every year the shore advances a few yards.

A joint United Nations and African Union gathering to address gender equality and the advancement of women on the continent kicked off today in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

By Tom Powell A new investigation by the Southern African Migration Project found high levels of intolerance and hostility towards foreigners by South Africans were the main reason for the wave of xenophobic ...

Sudanese government forces are reported to have attacked one of Darfur's largest refugee camps, killing dozens of civilians.

Years ago, no one thought twice about felling the rainforest around this village in West Africa.

Land was cleared, cocoa and palm oil were planted, and the hamlet survived. But the wind blows stronger across the fields and scrub these days, and the rainfall is heavier than the elders remember.

'Before, the weather wasn't so hot,' says the village chief, Nana Opare Ababio.

Afiaso, with 620 people, is on the border of Ghana's Kakum National Park, about 200 kilometers (120 miles) from Accra, where a 160-nation U.N. conference is discussing how the issues of deforestation and conservation fit into a new global treaty on climate change.

By Devin Hermanus and Sapa The SA High Commission in Uganda has applied for permission to visit two South Africans held in Kampala on suspicion of being involved in terrorism.

Monday, 25 August 2008, 2:44 pm Press Release: United Nations United Nations officials, representatives of African governments and civil society experts have gathered in Nigeria today for a three-day conference ...

The stench rising from a fly infested sewage ditch is worsened by the scorching sun. But for some enterprising residents, it's the smell of progress.

People in Nairobi's Kibera slum are surviving soaring food and fuel prices and poor sanitation by harnessing the power of two things they have in plenty: sewage and sunshine.

Some have helped construct a network of public latrines that recycle human waste into gas for cooking and light. Others, assisted by a Swiss aid organization, use sunlight to purify drinking water, dramatically slashing cases of waterborne disease.

Attempts by the government to obstruct the Democratic Alliance's enquiries into South Africa's multi-billion rand arms deal have continued the party's arms deal spokesperson Eddie Trent said today.

By Basildon Peta and Moshoeshoe Monare When President Thabo Mbeki reconvenes the Zimbabwean talks, Morgan Tsvangirai, the leader of the main Movement for Democratic Change will be under immense pressure to sign ...