Africa News latest RSS headlines - Africa Leader.comProvides the latest RSS feeds for Africa News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home pageUAE, Libya to buy French fighter-bombers- June 19, 2008 PARIS: France is negotiating deals for the first foreign sales of some 100 Rafale combat jets, President Nicolas Sarkozy&039;s chief of staff said Wednesday. "Finally, after 23 years, we are going to sell...http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/15627436/ Mark Thatcher played senior role in plotting African coup, court told- June 19, 2008 SIR Mark Thatcher, the son of the former prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, was yesterday named as a senior member of the plotters behind a failed coup in Equatorial Guinea.http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/15627426/ Sudan tries 39 for attack on Khartoum- June 18, 2008 Sudan has put 39 people, accused of taking part in a Darfur rebel attack on the capital last month, on trial. Clashes centred on a suburb of Khartoum left at least 200 dead during the first attack on...http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/15627435/ Mann accuses Mark Thatcher of key involvement in African coup plot- June 18, 2008 In evidence to a court in Equatorial Guinea yesterday, the British mercenary Simon Mann said Mark Thatcher, the son of the former prime minister, was a committed member of the group that organised the...http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/15627425/ Kenyan prime minister calls for peacekeepers for Zimbabwe- June 18, 2008 Washington - Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga called Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe an "embarrassment" to Africa and said international peacekeepers should be sent to the country to ensure free ...http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/15627423/ Mbeki meets Zimbabwe rivals- June 18, 2008 Mbeki serves as mediator between Mugabe&039;s Zanu-PF and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, having been appointed to the post by the 14-nation Southern African Development Community (SADC).No...http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/15627428/ U.S. Secretary of State Praises Strength of Kenyan Democracy- June 18, 2008 Washington -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice praised the &039;strength of Kenyan democracy&039; June 18 while announcing that she will co-chair a round table on Zimbabwe in the U.N. Security Council...http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/15628037/ US backed E Guinea coup, accused tells court- June 18, 2008 South Africa, Spain and the United States each approved a plot to topple Equatorial Guinea&039;s president, British mercenary Simon Mann told a Malabo court overnight. Testifying at his ongoing trial, Ma...http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/15627440/ |