News: Africa

[GFA] Ghana coach Goran Stevanovic has all his players available for the quarter-final match against Tunisia on Sunday at the 2012 African Cup of Nations.

[Nation] The first cull is done. It's goodbye to eight teams and the battle continues for the remaining eight.

[Aswat Masriya] Death toll of clashes between protesters and security forces in Cairo and Suez rises to 12.

[allAfrica.com] Bata - Zambia strode into the African Nations Cup semi-finals with a one-sided 3-0 win over Sudan to book a last four place for the first time in 16 years.

Preview of Sunday's first quarter-final between Gabon and Mali at the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon.

All the action from Saturday's quarter-finals as they happen at the Africa Cup of Nations in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon.

South African youth leader Julius Malema loses his appeals against the ruling ANC's decision to suspend him for bringing the party into disrepute.

[SAPA] Johannesburg - Convictions handed down by the National Disciplinary Committee to ANC Youth League leaders were upheld by an appeals committee on Saturday.

[Aswat Masriya] Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, head of the ruling military council, discusses the repercussions of Port Said stadium events with Prime Minister Kamal Al-Ganzouri in a meeting on Saturday.

[Capital FM] Kisumu - At least 26 people are dead following a grisly road accident that occurred on Friday night on the busy Kisumu-Kakamega highway at the Mamboleo black spot.

[Capital FM] Kisumu - At least 26 people are dead following a grisly road accident that occurred on Friday night on the busy Kisumu-Kakamega highway at the Mamboleo black spot.

[Aswat Masriya] The ruling Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) urged national powers to intervene in order to end tension and restore calm as clashes between security forces and protesters continue.

[Aswat Masriya] Clashes between security forces and protesters were renewed intermittently in Mansour street near Tahrir square. A number of injured people were taken to field hospitals.

[UN News] The head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) said today that he hopes to decide next week on the partial certification of parliamentary elections held in the West African country near the end of last year.

[Sudan Tribune] Khartoum - The US Ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, has strongly condemned the bombing of a school in Sudan's southern region of South Kordofan by the country's military forces.

[RFI] It will be a tale of three warhorses on Sunday when Gabon take on Mali in the quarter final of the Africa Cup of Nations.

[Sudan Tribune] Khartoum - The Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir highlighted the unprecedented level of tensions with the newly established state of South Sudan by saying that war is now a possibility.

[CAF] His is an efficient workhorse in the Black Stars, midfield and quietly goes about his business on and off the field in a focused manner. It was pretty much the same scenario at Ngouni Complex in Franceville that Cafonline.com caught up with Owusu Derek Boateng to talk about Ghana's upcoming quarter final encounter with Tunisia on Sunday 5th February

[Sudan Tribune] Juba/Bentui - On Thursday the Unity state minster for information and communication, Gideon Gatpan, said 15 people were killed in Mayiandit in a coordinated attack by Unity state forces who came on machine-gun mounted vehicles.

[Shabelle] Badhahde - Kenyan jets have shelled a town once again in less than a week a rebel-held towns in Lower Jubba region of southwestern Somalia, causing heavy loss of Al-shabab fighters, residents said on Saturday.