Africa News

ALGIERS (AFP) - Malian officials and Tuareg rebels agreed Friday in Algiers to begin implementing a recently-signed peace accord and to resume peace talks in early September, APS said.

HARARE, Zimbabwe - Aid agencies say they can resume distributing food in Zimbabwe. Oxfam and Save the Children said Friday that a government ban had been lifted almost three months after it was imposed. The government had ordered aid agencies to stop work before a presidential runoff.

LONDON (AFP) - England captain Kevin Pietersen said he would go for the jugular after seeing his side take an unassailable 3-0 lead in the one-day series against South Africa at the Oval on Friday.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Tanzania President Jakaya Kikwete said Friday that US President George W. Bush had done more for Africa than any of his predecessors and thanked him for his help on crises in Zimbabwe and Darfur.

PRETORIA (AFP) - South African officials were locked in separate negotiations with Zimbabwe's political rivals on Friday in a bid to kickstart stalled power-sharing talks to resolve a ruinous political crisis.

ALGIERS (AFP) - The Algerian government has pledged to keep food prices under control during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan amid security concerns following a spate of deadly attacks that killed more than 50 people.

LONDON (AFP) - Samit Patel took five wickets and Andrew Flintoff hit 78 not out to inspire England to a 126-run win, and an unassailable 3-0 series lead, against South Africa at the Oval on Friday.

LAGOS (AFP) - Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua's anti-corruption drive has claimed another scalp with news Friday of the arrest of an ex-governor who allegedly embezzled millions of dollars of state funds.

ARUSHA, Tanzania (AFP) - The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Friday cancelled a 25 year jail term against a military official void Friday and ordered a new trial on only one of the charges against him.

GENEVA (AFP) - The office of the top UN human rights official Friday condemned Sudan's "disproportionate and excessive" attack on a displaced persons camp in Darfur that killed more than 30 people, including seven children.

BENGHAZI, Libya (AFP) - Dignitaries from a host of African tribes have bestowed the title "king of kings" on Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi during a visit marking the anniversary of the coup that brought him to power almost four decades ago.

PRETORIA (AFP) - Power-sharing talks between Zimbabwe's political rivals will resume Friday, officials said, more than two weeks after negotiations stalled, amid anger over President Robert Mugabe's plans to form a government without the opposition.

RABAT (AFP) - Moroccan police said Friday they had dismantled a "terrorist network" linked to Al-Qaeda and arrested 15 suspects who were planning attacks.

HARARE (AFP) - Zimbabwe on Friday lifted a ban on aid agencies suspended ahead of the June 27 presidential run-off over accusations that some of them were siding with the opposition.

HARARE (Reuters) - South Africa said Zimbabwean power-sharing talks would resume on Friday although President Robert Mugabe's top negotiator said there was no need for further negotiations.

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - A United Nations court trying the architects of Rwanda's 1994 genocide on Friday reversed the genocide conviction and 25-year jail sentence of a former army lieutenant colonel, the court said.

ABUJA (AFP) - Iran is ready to share its nuclear technology with Nigeria to help the energy-starved west African powerhouse boost electricity generation, a senior Iranian official has said.

LONDON (AFP) - South Africa stand in captain Jacques Kallis won the toss and decided to field in the third one-day international against England at the Oval on Friday.

ABUJA, Nigeria - An Iranian trade delegation announced an agreement Thursday for Iran to share peaceful nuclear technology with Nigeria, to help Africa's biggest oil producer bolster its woeful electricity-generation capacity.

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Government forces fought Tutsi rebels on Thursday in the fiercest clashes for months in eastern Congo, threatening a struggling peace process, the defence minister said on Thursday.

KINSHASA, Congo - Rebels and the army fought one of their fiercest battles in eastern Congo this year on Thursday, exchanging machine-gun and mortar fire all day outside a national park that is home to some of the world's last mountain gorillas.

KHARTOUM (AFP) - Darfur rebels claimed to have shot down a Sudanese military spy plane in a wild mountainous area of the war-torn region on Thursday.

LAGOS (AFP) - Nigeria's most prominent armed group said Thursday it had located an Israeli national who was kidnapped earlier in the week in the country's oil-rich but dangerous south.

JUBA, Sudan (AFP) - Sudan's security apparatus has seized copies of a local English-language newspaper, the latest episode in months of threats and seizures, its chief editor said on Thursday.

LONDON (AFP) - South Africa captain Graeme Smith will miss Friday's third one-day international against England as he struggles to recover from a tennis elbow injury.

NAIROBI (AFP) - Ethiopian authorities released a newspaper editor detained last week after his paper reported on a labour dispute at a local brewery, a media watchdog said Thursday.

TRIPOLI (AFP) - Libya on Thursday announced an amnesty for more than 3,000 prisoners, including Europeans and Africans, to mark the 39th anniversary of Moamer Kadhafi's rule.

CAIRO (AFP) - A US probe into the shooting of an Egyptian man by a US Navy chartered boat near the Suez Canal in March said Thursday that the ship's arrival at the wrong time was a "significant factor" in the killing.

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - Zimbabwe's veteran ruler Robert Mugabe will defy the opposition and form a new government despite stalled talks on power-sharing after contested polls, the junior information minister said Thursday.