10.8.10 – BOSTON — Voicing “disgust” with President Robert Mugabe for his “betrayal” of Zimbabwe’s coalition government, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai Thursday announced his MDC party will not recognize a string of senior appointments.

10.7.10 – JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — While most African economies are improving, the continent's democracies are not.

10.5.10 – NAIROBI, Kenya and NEW DELHI, India — More than a century ago Mark Twain encouraged people to, “Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.” Foreign investors criticized for leasing huge tracts of African land for commercial farming.

10.2.10 – BOSTON — The unprecedented terror bombing that killed eight people today in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, on the country’s 50th anniversary of independence, has forced many to ask "what is there to celebrate?" Terror bombings prompt Nigerians to ask 'What do we have to celebrate?'

9.30.10 – NAIROBI, Kenya — Baaba Maal walks onstage in patent leather shoes, skinny black trousers, a black shirt and a silk-white tuxedo embroidered with black flowers that wind up his arms and across his chest. Dreadlocks skim his collar and frame his smiling face. With a searing, startling voice, singer takes Africa's energy around the world.

9.26.10 – Rukoko — Several mysterious killings in Burundi, where memories of civil war are still fresh, have spread fear and disrupted livelihoods, while authorities have sought to play down talk of renewed armed insurrection, blaming some of the deaths on bandits.

9.24.10 – Confronted by critics in his party, South African president takes hard line.

9.24.10 – In the Congolese capital Kinshasa, just surviving is hard enough. But one group of people spends hours traveling across town to sit in a sweltering compound and practice Handel. They are members of the Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste, Central Africa's only symphony orchestra

9.22.10 – Referendum over independence of South from North seen as key.

9.21.10 – The United States and China are anxiously watching the referendum in Sudan in January that could result in the south seceding from the north. China is concerned over its extensive oil concessions in the south while the Barack Obama administration faces strong domestic political pressure on Sudan. The worst-case scenario would be civil war, rather than a civil divorce.

9.18.10 – Charges against American medics highlight the Mugabe regime's repression.

9.15.10 – With the end of the monsoons, Somali pirates are hijacking ships again. NAIROBI, Kenya — It was already light by 5 a.m. when two squads of U.S. Marines launched a daring raid on a container ship occupied by pirates off the coast of Somalia.

9.9.10 – U.S. Marines board and reclaim control of a German-owned vessel captured by Somali pirates, in what appears to be the first U.S.-led military boarding of its kind

9.5.10 – Government employees close schools, hospitals and challenge President Jacob Zuma and ANC

9.3.10 – KAMPALA , Uganda – Ihwezo Mwessigye tosses a collared jersey onto his desk.. Continent is a big cotton grower but struggles to develop cloth and garments industries.

7.28.10 – Leaders meet in Uganda to address rising threat of Islamic extremism. KAMPALA, Uganda — The terrorist violence spreading from Somalia dominated this week's African Union summit, resulting in a decision to boost the number of troops it deploys in the war-torn country.

HARARE, Zimbabwe — International rights campaigners have given a cautious welcome to the decision by the World Diamond Council to allow diamonds from the controversial diggings in Chiadzwa, in Zimbabwe’s eastern districts, to be exported under the supervisory Kimberley Process. New agreement allows Zimbabwe to sell the gemstones on international market.