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Algeria#039;s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, 76, has returned home after a medical check-up at a hospital in Paris, state media reports. He flew back earlier than scheduled...

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By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - South Sudan#39;s rebels have demanded that Uganda stop supporting government forces as a condition for signing a ceasefire to end fighting that has riven Africa#39;s youngest nation, a spokesman said on Thursday. The president of neighboring Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, admitted for the first time on Wednesday that he was helping South Sudanese President Salva Kiir to fight the rebel forces. Ugandan officials had previously...

By Lamine Chikhi and Patrick Markey ALGIERS/TUNIS (Reuters) - Abdelaziz Bouteflika#39;s second visit to Paris for hospital treatment has reignited speculation the president who oversaw Algeria#39;s emergence from almost a decade of civil war may be unable to run for reelection in April. Bouteflika, a Western ally against militant Islamists in North Africa who suffered a stroke last year, flew to France on Monday for what state news agency APS called a planned check-up, saying his condition was quot;progressivelyquot; improving. He had been scheduled back on Friday, the first day of the election campaign. But Anis Rahmani, a media owner close to Bouteflika, said on Thursday the president...

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(Source: Confédération Africaine de Football) Morocco were made to pay a huge price for missing a horde of scoring chances when Burkina Faso scored a last gasp goal to deny them maximum points in the second Group B game at Athlone Stadium on Thursday night. The Atlas Lions who scored in the opening minute of the game, could have wrapped up the match inside the first 45 minutes. But having taken the lead, spurned one chance after the other and were made to rue those chances as the Stallions of Burkina Faso stole an unlikely equaliser to earn a share of the spoils. It was hardly a result the North Africans deserved as...

A young man convicted of sodomy has been whipped 20 times in a northern Nigerian Shariah court. Though Mubarak Ibrahim was found guilty under Shariah law, it is the first conviction of a gay man in Nigeria since President Goodluck Jonathan signed a bill that further criminalises homosexuality under the West African nation's Western-style penal code. Activists believe the new law has whipped up...

Hilary Heuler KAMPALA ? The conflict in South Sudan is sending ripples across the regional economy. In Uganda, one of South Sudan#39;s biggest trading partners, tens of thousands of merchants are feeling the loss of cross-border trade. In late December, Dan Ssesanga was herded into a Ugandan military truck and, with gunfire ringing in his ears, given safe passage out of South Sudan#39;s capital, Juba. But Ssesanga sells eggs, and his merchandise stayed behind. ldquo;I left behind 600 crates of eggs -...

(Source: SAFA - South African Football Association) Morocco were made to pay a huge price for missing a horde of scoring chances when Burkina Faso scored a last gasp goal to deny them maximum points in the second Group B game at Athlone Stadium on Thursday night. The Atlas Lions who scored in the opening minute of the game, could have wrapped up the match inside the first 45 minutes. But having taken the lead, spurned one chance after the other and were made to rue those chances as the Stallions of Burkina Faso stole an unlikely equaliser to earn a share of the spoils. It was hardly a result the North Africans deserved...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - With a win and a draw in the kitty, host South Africa is looking forward to a key match against African champion Nigeria in the last group A match of the ongoing 2014 African Nations Championship.
Sports

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan Thursday effected major changes in the country's military high command, firing the nation's top military officer as well as two of the three service chiefs.
Politics

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Group B Day 2 matches take place Thursday at the ongoing 2014 African Nations Championship (CHAN) in South Africa, with the Ugandan Cranes seeking an unassailable 6 points lead on the table from their match against Zimbabwe.
Sports

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta is due to leave Bamako Thursday night for a three-day visit to Algeria, PANA reported Thursday, quoting official sources.
Politics

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - One of Africa?s fastest growing financial institutions, Ecobank Transnational Incorporation, and the multinational financial services corporation MasterCard have signed an electronic payment deal which might lead to the bank's 60% control of the market share in Nigeria and 27 other African countries.
Economy

Bamako, Mali (PANA) ? A third group of 284 Malians, repatriated from the troubled Central African Republic (CAR), arrived here late Wednesday aboard a Jordanian plane, PANA learnt from official sources in the Malian capital.
Society

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Following are the latest exchange rates for the Nigerian currency, the Naira:
Economy

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Ugandan Cranes kept their leadership of Group B despite drawing 0-0 with Zimbabwe Thursday at the ongoing 2014 African Nations Championship (CHAN) in South Africa.
Sports

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - A UN report on human rights violations in South Sudan will be released in the next few weeks, says UN Official Ivan Simonovic, who painted a bleak picture of the violent scenes in Bentieu town.
Society

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Goals from Brahim El Bahri (Morocco) in the very first minute and Bassirou Ouedraogo (Burkina Faso), only two minutes to the end, accounted for the 1-1 draw Thursday between the two teams in their Group B, Day 2 action at the 2014 African Nations Championship (CHAN) in South Africa.
Sports

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan ulemas have urged the authorities to "use all means" to lift the blockade of the main oil terminals in the east of Africa's third largest oil producer.
Economy

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Three Chadian peacekeepers with the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) were wounded last Saturday during a shootout with supposed perpetrators of three explosions which occurred the day before about three kms from the Aguelhok military camp in Kidal.
Society

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese government and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) have made arrangements for the evacuation of 2,000 Sudanese nationals, including women and children, from the South Sudanese town of Bantieu.
Society

Depuis la promulgation, lundi, d?une loi pénalisant l?homosexualité de plusieurs années de prison, des activistes de la cause gay ont fait état d?arrestations arbitraires et de tortures sur des militants.

Network denies journalists imprisoned in Egypt since last year have confessed to being members of Muslim Brotherhood.

Early results show overwhelming support for a new constitution, a result welcomed by military and state media in Egypt.