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President Obama, his daughters Malia and Sashaand his wife Michelle arrive at Pratica di Mare's military airport near Rome yesterday en route to Ghana

'We want him to rule all African countries'

Richard Dowden in Ghana reports on the frenzy generated by Barack Obama's visit.

Inside Africa

Workers on strike over pay at the Green Point stadium in Cape Town

Game on for Zuma as workers strike at World Cup stadiums

Thursday, 9 July 2009

South African construction workers began an indefinite strike yesterday, halting work at stadiums for the 2010 World Cup in the biggest industrial action since President Jacob Zuma took office in May.

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, rose to power after a civil war that pitched children into the fighting

The plot to oust Liberia's leading lady

Wednesday, 8 July 2009

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf could be barred from office because of her links to a warlord

How the swine flu virus spread across the UK

Monday, 6 July 2009

The virus has swept through the UK since April, infecting thousands of people although most have suffered mild symptoms.

Daniel Howden: I ran for fun. But my friend Elijah didn't

Monday, 6 July 2009

Nairobi Notebook: Helicopters and wardens on motorbikes were busy herding the lions, rhinos and elephants away from the course

African nations unite to defend Sudanese leader

Saturday, 4 July 2009

After bitter wrangling, Africa's leaders agreed to denounce the International Criminal Court and refuse to extradite Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir, who has been indicted for crimes against humanity in Darfur.

Bahia Bakari, 13, recovers in Moroni hospital in the Comoros islands yesterday. She had clung on to a piece of wreckage from the plane and was rescued after waving to a passing boat

Sole crash survivor 'could hardly swim', says father

Thursday, 2 July 2009

Man who lost wife in Yemenia Airbus disaster thanks God for the life of his 13-year-old daughter

Yemenia plane may have been circuiting

Wednesday, 1 July 2009

The Yemenia Airbus 310 that crashed into the Indian Ocean near Comoros may have been attempting a circuiting manoeuvre when it hit the sea, a pilots association says.

'This A310 (above) has posed problems for a long time,' says Stephane Salord, honorary consul for the Comoros Islands

14-year-old survives Airbus crash

Wednesday, 1 July 2009

Rescuers were tonight hailing the "miracle survival" of a single child after a passenger jet crashed into the sea off the Comoros Islands in the Indian Ocean.

Survivor of Yemeni plane crash 'doing well'

Wednesday, 1 July 2009

Nursing staff today said the teenager believed to be the only survivor of a Yemeni jet crash is "doing well'' in a hospital in Comoros.

More than 1,500 people died in violence which took the world by surprise when it broke out last year after Raila Odinga won the Kenyan election

Kenya's decline and fall

Wednesday, 1 July 2009

The streets are no longer burning, but smouldering corruption at every level of government threatens to rip the country apart. Once the pride of East Africa, it has now been judged a failure of a state, writes Daniel Howden

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