AFRICA HEADLINES AUGUST 2008

AUG 31 2008

Iran Offers Nuclear Technology to Nigeria

Effectiveness of Aid Focus of International Conference in Ghana

Italy to Pay $5 Billion to Libya in Landmark Accord

Zimbabwe Ruling Party Rejects Latest Opposition Demands

AUG 30 2008

Man rapes 3 kids of same parents same day

AUG 29 2008

ZIMBABWE: Listening for the trucks that will bring the food

GUINEA-BISSAU: Security sector reform must go ahead

CONGO: Campaign highlights importance of testing diabetes, hypertension

Emissaries to Meet DRC Rebel Leader Friday

AUG 28 2008

African bank set for share issue

Migrants die off Spanish coast

Sudanese plane hijackers surrender in Libya

MDC heckle Mugabe in parliament

AUG 27 2008

NIGER: Northern desert conflict disrupts maternal health care

SUDAN: Volatile IDP site needs a lasting solution, UN

UGANDA: Bwenge Kana: "People from the community were asking me why I was not breastfeeding"

DRC: Leprosy almost eliminated, says government

SOMALIA: Conditions getting worse in IDP camps

RWANDA: Sustainable peace key to post-genocide reconciliation

AUG 26 2008

Asylum-seekers run the gauntlet in Sinai desert

Zambia ask Fifa to move Togo game

ANGOLA: How free will the elections be?

SOUTH AFRICA: Hope in a shipping container clinic

SOMALIA: Thousands displaced as insurgents take control of Kismayo