The Zimbabwean government will soon be monitoring the Internet, mobile and fixed line phones to sift for information it deems subversive or used for organized crime. This will come live after the Interception and Communication Bill becomes law.

Cameroon announced to install satellite equipments in order to boost regulation of commercial fishing and ensure better security within its territorial waters.

Congo police on 15 June arrested two Army soldiers allegedly for killing a journalist working for United Nations’ sponsored radio. Maheshe. Maheshe, a broadcaster for Radio Okapi, a nationwide radio network set up to aid the peace process in Congo after the 1998-2003 war, was shot on 13 June in...

Army soldiers had to join the police outside schools and hospitals early this week as the South African government vowed to assert control over a civil service strike from 01 June that has sparked clashes and raised political tensions.

The governments of Liberia and Sierra Leone re-opened a common border post after 17 years. The border post which spans the Mano River known as the Bo Waterside was closed in 1990 when Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Party of Liberia launched an uprising against the regime of the then president...

Zambia President Levy Mwanawasa said last week that his government will revoke mining licences issued to foreign investors who have not developed their mines in due time. President Mwanawasa said, large-scale mining firms held licences for mines across the country for many years but kept them idle for...

The US in late May 2007 imposed new sanctions against Sudan. Sudan’s Ambassador to the UN Abdalmahmood Abdalhaleem Mohamad kicked back the move saying, Americans should feel "ashamed" because Sudan is making progress on ending the bloodshed in Darfur.

Thousands of people including women and children fled by foot and on donkeys from Darfur to the neighboring Central African Republic after their town was attacked by planes and helicopters.

The African Union objected to a proposal for a 23,000 strong African Union-United Nations force to work aimed at ending the bloodshed in Sudan’s troubled Darfur region. This objection came because the African Union feels, it would give the UN full command and control.

Several hundred Somali soldiers seized control of the southern port of Kismayu in a protest over unpaid salaries on 31 May 2007 but Kismayu based tribal elders have successfully reopened the sea port after 48 hours.