/News/africa/-/1066/1066/-/8y7euiz/-/index.html http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Wait+Mugabe+challengers+told/-/1066/1412956/-/fimfdiz/-/index.html Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF party on Thursday told its members harbouring presidential ambitions 2012-05-24T16:19:18Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Rwanda+genocide+suspect+to+appeal+refusal+of+extra+time/-/1066/1412848/-/114v2kqz/-/index.html Rwandan genocide suspect Leon Mugesera, who was deported by Canada to Kigali after a long legal 2012-05-24T15:19:34Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Jobless+with+degrees+demonstrate+in+Tunisia/-/1066/1412740/-/ao0g91/-/index.html About 100 unemployed people with university degrees demonstrated Thursday outside Tunisia's Kasbah 2012-05-24T14:10:21Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Indecent+Zuma+painting+difficult+to+ban+judge/-/1066/1412728/-/v0ph50z/-/index.html South African President Jacob Zuma's bid to ban a painting in which his genitals are exposed 2012-05-24T13:57:04Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Somali+Islamists+flee+as+troops+advance/-/1066/1412518/-/ttd169z/-/index.html Al-Qaeda linked Al-Shabaab fighters in Somalia are fleeing their key stronghold of Afgoye ahead of an advancing column of government and African Union troops, military commanders said Thursday. 2012-05-24T10:40:22Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Egypt+votes+on+second+day+of+landmark+election/-/1066/1412364/-/2jdocwz/-/index.html Egyptians vote on Thursday in the second day of a gripping presidential election in which candidates are pitting stability against the ideals of the uprising that ended Hosni Mubarak's rule. 2012-05-24T06:17:16Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Mali+coup+leader+to+head+interim+government/-/1066/1411942/-/wvcjukz/-/index.html Supporters of Mali's coup leader deal a fresh blow to a return to democratic rule by saying they had chosen him 2012-05-23T15:18:13Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Somali+AU+troops+close+in+on+Islamist+stronghold+/-/1066/1411932/-/sk9gbwz/-/index.html African Union and Somali government troops make "strong progress" in a push towards Afgoye 2012-05-23T15:06:08Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Algerian+govt+calls+on+losing+parties+to+step+aside+/-/1066/1411930/-/4mcu94/-/index.html Fifteen Algerian political parties that claim to have been cheated of votes in May 10 elections should leave parliament 2012-05-23T15:04:22Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Congo+refugees+seek+help+in+Uganda/-/1066/1411928/-/102xgmo/-/index.html Thousands of refugees have registered at a transit centre in Uganda after fleeing fighting 2012-05-23T15:02:17Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Egyptians+vote+in+historic+presidential+election/-/1066/1411624/-/15rt7bq/-/index.html Egyptians take to the polls on Wednesday in a historic presidential election contested by Islamists and secularists promising radically different futures for the country. 2012-05-23T05:41:52Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Farmworker+convicted+of+murdering+South+African+farright+leader+/-/1066/1411328/-/qhyw6oz/-/index.html A South African court Tuesday convicted one of the two accused black farmworkers in the murder of white supremacist leader Eugene Terre'Blanche. 2012-05-22T16:12:07Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Sudan+war+planes+bomb+South+Sudan+South+minister+/-/1066/1411320/-/12h3owkz/-/index.html South Sudan said Tuesday Sudanese war planes have launched air strikes against its territory, the latest in a series of attacks that threaten to scupper international efforts to restart peace talks. 2012-05-22T16:08:41Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Tunisia+to+extradite+former+Libyan+prime+minister+official+/-/1066/1411310/-/xeracpz/-/index.html Tunisia will extradite former Libyan prime minister Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi, held since his arrest last September 2012-05-22T16:05:22Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Egypt+buzzing+ahead+of+landmark+poll+/-/1066/1411302/-/qd7lyv/-/index.html A buzz of excitement swept through the Egyptian capital Tuesday, a day before its first presidential election 2012-05-22T16:00:18Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Malis+interim+leader+Traore+beaten+by+protesters/-/1066/1410584/-/138bb5w/-/index.html Mali's transition president Diancounda Traore was hospitalised on Monday after protesters angry at his appointment 2012-05-21T16:42:58Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Egyptian+candidates+wrap+up+campaigns+/-/1066/1410540/-/59s2mwz/-/index.html Campaigning for Egypt’s landmark presidential election ends 2012-05-21T16:12:47Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/-/1066/1410532/-/145gct5/-/index.html Support pours in for South African President Jacob Zuma over a vulgar painting that depicts him nude 2012-05-21T16:06:18Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Sierra+Leone+to+pay+over+crash+/-/1066/1410524/-/n92lpfz/-/index.html Sierra Leone’s Minister of Transport and Aviation has said the country has accepted ‘liability’ 2012-05-21T16:02:22Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/UN+rights+chief+begins++meetings+in+Zimbabwe+/-/1066/1410510/-/57bxig/-/index.html Zimbabwe has said it had nothing to hide in terms of human rights abuses 2012-05-21T15:56:06Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Central+Somalia+hit+by+flooding+/-/1066/1410108/-/halvvmz/-/index.html More than 40 families in parts of Mudug region in Central Somalia have been hit by heavy flooding. 2012-05-20T18:44:06Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Banda+to+lead+Lesotho+poll+monitor+mission+/-/1066/1410104/-/w7iontz/-/index.html Zambia’s former president Rupiah Banda is expected to travel to Maseru, Lesotho on Monday 2012-05-20T18:43:04Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/New+fighting+erupts+in+eastern+DR+Congo+/-/1066/1409878/-/ifheufz/-/index.html Fresh clashes between the DR Congo's army and a group of mutineers erupted Sunday in the eastern province of Nord-Kivu, defectors said, a day after fierce battles near a gorilla park. 2012-05-20T15:47:23Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/UN+deminers+captured+by+Sudan+army+freed+minister+/-/1066/1409862/-/5o5x5rz/-/index.html Four UN deminers arrested by the Sudanese army along the country's tense southern border were released Sunday and turned over to chief African Union mediator Thabo Mbeki 2012-05-20T15:44:11Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Lockerbie+bombing+convict+dies+in+Libya+/-/1066/1409850/-/kpe4oe/-/index.html Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi, the only person convicted over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing which killed 270 people, died on Sunday 2012-05-20T15:40:24Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Zimbabwes+Mugabe+says+tired+of+ruling/-/1066/1409642/-/ij8gl1/-/index.html Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe reportedly told a former minister in his government 2012-05-20T09:50:54Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/West+African+ministers+tackle+Mali+crisis/-/1066/1409368/-/jb1m2dz/-/index.html West African ministers meet to try to resolve the impasse gripping Mali and speed up the return to constitutional rule in Guinea-Bissau 2012-05-19T15:22:49Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Seven+killed+in+Mogadishu+bomb+blasts+/-/1066/1409364/-/twjiif/-/index.html At least seven people, mostly Somali soldiers, are killed in bomb explosions in the Somali capital Mogadishu 2012-05-19T15:19:05Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/A+South+African+fit+to+head+union/-/1066/1409356/-/erysavz/-/index.html On May 13, 2012, the Sunday Nation columnist Mukhisa Kituyi wrote a one-sided piece of how he perceives the vision of the African Union should be and who should drive it as the next commission chair. 2012-05-19T15:11:55Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Egypt+faces+landmark+election/-/1066/1409344/-/12ns7wm/-/index.html After more than half a century of subdued discontent and sometimes open turbulence under military rule, Egypt is finally set to hold a landmark presidential election on Wednesday and Thursday this week. 2012-05-19T15:03:59Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Equatorial+Guinea+government+resigns/-/1066/1408994/-/bglkly/-/index.html The government of Equatorial Guinea's prime minister Ignacio Milam Tang resigned in line with a constitutional reform approved in November, the country's communications minister said Friday. 2012-05-19T08:13:51Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Ghana+to+deport++illegal+immigrants+/-/1066/1408758/-/13ui4ja/-/index.html Ghana plans to deport illegal immigrants who were drawn to the country by its economic growth and prevailing stability. 2012-05-18T17:48:36Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Angolan+court+sends+polls+team+boss+home++/-/1066/1408756/-/ub7rkcz/-/index.html Angola’s Supreme Court has quashed the appointment of the country’s electoral body boss in a surprising decision ahead of September elections 2012-05-18T17:48:28Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Zimbabwe+lawmakers+set+to+undergo+the+cut+/-/1066/1408754/-/fd5hxu/-/index.html Hundreds of Zimbabwean MPs will be circumcised by the end of next month to help popularise the latest HIV/Aids prevention method. 2012-05-18T17:48:16Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/-/1066/1408752/-/1450f3v/-/index.html Ahmed Shafiq, the last prime minister of ousted leader Hosni Mubarak, is a front-runner in next week’s presidential election. 2012-05-18T17:48:08Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Zambia+court+halts+probe+into+judges/-/1066/1407944/-/smm1bw/-/index.html Zambia's High Court on Thursday suspended a special tribunal set up by the president to probe three judges 2012-05-17T14:45:17Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/W+Africa+bloc+confirms+G+Bissau+troop+deployment+for+Friday/-/1066/1407942/-/5hmfjsz/-/index.html West Africa's main regional bloc has confirmed that it will begin deploying troops to coup-ridden 2012-05-17T14:42:43Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Mbeki+heading+to+Khartoum+to+push+talks/-/1066/1407940/-/103cbwx/-/index.html African Union mediator Thabo Mbeki was expected in the Sudanese capital Thursday night 2012-05-17T14:40:39Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/South+Africa+wont+bully+its+way+to+AU+top+job+Zuma/-/1066/1407936/-/8b4l8p/-/index.html South African President Jacob Zuma said Thursday his country would not "bully" its way into the top job 2012-05-17T14:38:57Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Mauritania+Death+sentence+upheld+for+assassin/-/1066/1407140/-/13ajfduz/-/index.html A Mauritanian court upholds a death sentence handed to an Al-Qaeda assassin found guilty of gunning down an American in 2009. 2012-05-16T13:21:08Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/-/1066/1407138/-/144yl1d/-/index.html Mozambique has said joint efforts with neighbouring countries to fight piracy in its waters are paying off. 2012-05-16T13:16:18Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Convicted+warlord+Taylor+says+prosecutors+paid+witnesses/-/1066/1407064/-/3tn5v5/-/index.html Convicted Liberian warlord Charles Taylor accuses prosecutors of paying and intimidating witnesses 2012-05-16T11:43:28Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Zimbabwean+deal+struck+on+constitution+/-/1066/1406634/-/124xl0nz/-/index.html Zimbabwe’s two main political parties iron out issues stalling the crafting a new constitution 2012-05-15T17:21:43Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Al+Shabaab+gives+new+beard+order+/-/1066/1406630/-/36ny9pz/-/index.html Orders for men to grow their beards and to trim moustaches are given by militants loyal to Al-Shabaab. 2012-05-15T17:18:10Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Foreign+force+strikes+Somali+pirate+base/-/1066/1406614/-/68rie4z/-/index.html A helicopter gunship swoops over the Somali coast to strike at a pirate stronghold 2012-05-15T17:06:41Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/-/1066/1406598/-/144y00c/-/index.html The government of Senegal announces that salaries of civil servants will no longer exceed five million francs 2012-05-15T16:58:53Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/South+Sudanese+airlifted+from+Khartoum+return+home+/-/1066/1405582/-/phrq2rz/-/index.html The first batch of up to 15,000 South Sudanese to be airlifted from Khartoum are welcomed in their homeland 2012-05-14T13:03:35Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/SA+youth+leader+Malema+vows+comeback+/-/1066/1405572/-/lubf7u/-/index.html South Africa's renegade youth leader Julius Malema vows that he will one day lead the African National Congress 2012-05-14T12:54:19Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Nigeria+to+deploy+troops+to+G+Bissau/-/1066/1405570/-/i2tbo/-/index.html Nigeria, west Africa's regional powerhouse, will deploy troops to Guinea-Bissau this week 2012-05-14T12:53:19Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Egypt+police+raid+Iran+TV+office+in+Cairo/-/1066/1405566/-/dtw0pez/-/index.html Egyptian police raid the Cairo office of Iranian television channel, Al-Alam, confiscating its equipment 2012-05-14T12:50:01Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/NATO+must+probe+deaths+of+72+civilians+in+Libya/-/1066/1405460/-/kwhh56z/-/index.html NATO must account for the killing of dozens of civilians during its 2011 air campaign 2012-05-14T09:17:54Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Uganda+captures+high+ranking+LRA+member+army+/-/1066/1405000/-/159qqiz/-/index.html Ugandan troops have captured the fourth most senior rebel commander of the Lord's Resistance Army, Caesar Acellam 2012-05-13T14:54:20Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Libya+extends+voter+registration+by+a+week+/-/1066/1404994/-/rjah1m/-/index.html Libya on Sunday extended the deadline for voter registration by a week in a bid to broaden participation 2012-05-13T14:52:35Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Algerian+Islamist+threatens+revolt/-/1066/1404992/-/d16pxg/-/index.html An Algerian Islamist leader said Sunday that a Tunisian-style revolt was the only option after polls he charged were fraudulent 2012-05-13T14:50:54Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Senegal+new+leader+out+to+battle+graft/-/1066/1404984/-/oa9s5uz/-/index.html Senegal’s president Macky Sall like his predecessor Abdoulaye Wade could have chosen not to declare his assets 2012-05-13T14:44:03Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/South+Sudan+pulls+out+its+forces+from+Abyei+/-/1066/1404698/-/1343ibpz/-/index.html South Sudan has withdrawn hundreds of police from the territory of Abyei that it disputes with Sudan 2012-05-12T17:11:24Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Somalia+faces+acid+test+ahead+of+new+order++/-/1066/1404696/-/eu4fpbz/-/index.html On a political path strewn with obstacles and dangers, Somalia stands at a new crossroads. 2012-05-12T17:09:21Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Far+cry+for+democracy+in+Algeria+/-/1066/1404690/-/14ewu2r/-/index.html As Algeria held its long-awaited legislative elections last Thursday, there were hopes that the country would finally emerge into an era of true democracy after escaping the Arab Spring events that rocked many countries in North Africa and elsewhere last year. 2012-05-12T17:04:19Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Egyptian+poll+rivals+square+off+++/-/1066/1404208/-/hrvltnz/-/index.html The two front-runners in Egypt’s presidential election have traded barbs in an unprecedented televised debate, framing this month’s vote as a choice between an Islamist fundamentalist or a holdover from Hosni Mubarak’s toppled regime. 2012-05-11T17:03:42Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Protests+in+Guinea+over+delayed+poll+/-/1066/1404206/-/6ng2cqz/-/index.html Riots rocked the Guinean capital, Conakry on Thursday as opposition supporters clashed with security forces over delay in legislative elections. 2012-05-11T17:03:37Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Soldiers+raid+Islamist+base+in+Nigerian+city+after+blasts+/-/1066/1404204/-/sf5fjvz/-/index.html Nigerian troops arrested a suspected leading Boko Haram militant in a raid yesterday, a day after the restive city where the Islamist group is based was rocked by blasts and gunfire. 2012-05-11T17:03:33Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Guinea+Bissau+coup+leaders+and+mediators+name+acting+president+/-/1066/1404202/-/11qclxgz/-/index.html Guinea-Bissau coup leaders and west African mediators agreed that parliamentary speaker Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo will lead a transition government, ruling out the return of the toppled team. 2012-05-11T17:03:29Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/80+years+for+Taylor+excessive+Defence/-/1066/1403778/-/15d09bg/-/index.html Lawyers defending convicted Liberian warlord Charles Taylor on Friday sought a lesser sentence than the 80 years requested by the prosecution, which they said was "excessive." 2012-05-11T09:34:59Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Tsvangirai+is+Wests+puppet+says+General+/-/1066/1403570/-/f2te2jz/-/index.html A Zimbabwean army general has sparked a political storm after he told troops to only support President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF party. 2012-05-10T17:17:55Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Ojukwus+widow+appointed+ambassador+/-/1066/1403568/-/9fqy4hz/-/index.html Months after the demise of the Biafran leader, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, his widow Bianca Ojukwu has been appointed ambassador of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. 2012-05-10T17:17:52Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Sirleaf+picked+to+co+chair+panel+/-/1066/1403566/-/fqawitz/-/index.html Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sifrleaf, together with the leaders of Indonesia and Britain, have been appointed to lead a global panel to set new international targets on sustainable development and ultimately the elimination of poverty, the has United Nations announced. 2012-05-10T17:17:48Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/No+UN+order+to+me+says+Bashir+/-/1066/1403564/-/6pn7vfz/-/index.html Neither the United Nations nor the African Union can impose its will on Sudan, President Omar al-Bashir said today, after fresh fighting along the border with South Sudan. 2012-05-10T17:17:45Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Kibaki+turns+down+SA+bid+for+AU+top+job/-/1066/1403090/-/15jm5mdz/-/index.html President Kibaki has turned down a request from South Africa to support its candidate Dlamini Zuma for the chairperson post at the African Union (AU) commission. 2012-05-10T11:05:45Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Algeria+vote+puts+status+quo+to+Arab+Spring+test/-/1066/1402838/-/f8ojvuz/-/index.html Algeria readied Wednesday for its first election since the Arab Spring swept the region, with the historical 2012-05-09T17:11:07Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Libya+govt+starts+to+get+tough+on+road+to+democracy/-/1066/1402830/-/85afx4/-/index.html The tendency to resort to the arms which ousted Muammar Gaddafi poses a roadblock to 2012-05-09T17:08:39Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Scandal+tainted+SAfrican+cop+loses+spy+boss+job/-/1066/1402826/-/sdjxeo/-/index.html The spy chief for South African police, Richard Mdluli, has been moved from his powerful post pending 2012-05-09T17:07:02Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Rwandan+genocide+suspect+wants+trial+postponed/-/1066/1402822/-/cul6sv/-/index.html Rwandan genocide suspect Leon Mugesera, deported by Canada to Kigali after a long legal battle 2012-05-09T17:05:12Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Rebels+form+new+movement+in+eastern+DRC/-/1066/1402516/-/19h1nv/-/index.html Soldiers loyal to general Bosco Ntanganda form new rebel movement called M23 2012-05-09T09:47:04Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/DR+Congo+army+in+gunfight+with+mutineers+captain+/-/1066/1402448/-/kask7v/-/index.html Congolese army deserters led by ex-general Bosco Ntaganda were in a gunfight with soldiers 2012-05-09T08:17:17Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Sudan+war+planes+bomb+South/-/1066/1402414/-/egrp04z/-/index.html Sudanese war planes launch renewed air strikes against South Sudan, violating a UN resolution 2012-05-09T07:15:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Niger+is+worst+place+to+be+mother+study/-/1066/1401924/-/13f75md/-/index.html The African nation of Niger has ousted Afghanistan as the worst place in the world to be a mother 2012-05-08T14:27:16Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Senegal+president+declares+assets+for+transparency/-/1066/1401902/-/8if5dgz/-/index.html Senegalese President Macky Sall has declared over two million euros ($2.6 million) in possessions 2012-05-08T14:11:29Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/-/1066/1401900/-/144ulb4/-/index.html Three unexploded bombs were discovered on Tuesday at a university in northern Nigeria that 2012-05-08T14:09:45Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Former+rebels+attack+Libyan+government+HQ/-/1066/1401896/-/1nphqk/-/index.html Former Libyan rebels angry over unpaid stipends opened fire on the headquarters of the interim government 2012-05-08T14:05:12Z http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Seven+killed+in+Mogadishu+mortar+attack+/-/1066/1401746/-/7v1kc0z/-/index.html A mortar shell fired into a crowded market kills seven civilians, including two children 2012-05-08T09:00:00Z