ETHIOPIA

An Airbus A310-300 from Yemen with 153 people on board, including 66 French nationals, crashed into the sea off the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros as it approached in bad weather early on Tuesday, officials said.

The World Bank said on Monday it had approved $90 million in loans for agricultural projects in three East African nations.

Sitting on a mat at home between taking orders for arms on his two mobile phones, Osman Bare gives thanks for the riches flowing from Somalia's war.

Somali government forces drove Islamist insurgents from two districts of the capital on Tuesday in another day of heavy fighting that killed dozens of people, residents and officials said.

Ethiopia is like no other country in Africa. Almost five times bigger than the United Kingdom, and ranging from 120m below sea level to 4,500m above it, it’s a place of size and extremes.

Denmark boasts the world's most networked economy, putting it and its Nordic neighbors in a good position to rebound from the current global downturn, the World Economic Forum said on Thursday.

On March 18, fierce confrontations near the Ethiopian Border between Somali government forces and Islamist rebels left at least fourteen people dead.

Sudan's president said on Monday he wanted foreign aid groups to stop distributing aid in Sudan within a year, in an escalation in the country's defiant response to an international war crimes warrant against him.

A United Nations investigator urged U.S. allies from Britain to Pakistan on Tuesday to fully investigate whether they helped in secret renditions that led to the illegal torture or disappearance of terror suspects.

Ethiopian troops have crossed the border back into central Somalia, less than a week after completing a military pullout from its neighbor.

On Tuesday Ethiopia handed over security duties to a Somali force, raising fears that the Horn of Africa country collapse into chaos if extremists allegedly linked to al-Qaida move to seize power.

The death toll from Kenya's post-election bloodletting has risen to 1,000, the Red Cross said on Tuesday, as political rivals began the toughest part of their negotiations so far. Fighting in west Kenya in recent days between rival ethnic gangs had increased the number of deaths, the Red Cross said.

The German telecommunications supplier Ericsson has announced its participation in the Millennium village project to provide connectivity in Africa especially in rural areas.

Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade said on Monday he would pull his country's troops out of Darfur if it was determined that African peacekeepers who were killed at the weekend were not equipped to defend themselves.

They've become as much a symbol of Africa's landscape as the stereotypical lions and plains

Homes and farmland drowned in increasingly severe floods are affecting some 500 million people a year and straining relief efforts, a senior U.N. official said on Thursday.

Energy and ambition is what World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz says he felt during a recent eight nation tour of Africa which ended late last month.

World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz is optimistic for the future of economic opportunities in Africa after returning from an eight-country trip through the continent.

World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz ended his visit to Liberia by addressing the nation's legislature on Friday where he praised the country's economic progress, but warned there is a need for more improvements.

Kenya's main port is targeting cargo for reconstruction of southern Sudan to expand its business, and the government is planning a second port to serve northern neighbors like Ethiopia, an official said on Tuesday.