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Thousands of Ugandans and Kenyans are working in Iraq and Afghanistan as contractors for US-based security companies. (AllAfrica)

The Beijing Platform for Action in 1995 set out an agenda to address gender equality in priority areas, including poverty, education, and health care. It also committed governments to address violence against women, equitable access to economic resources and decision-making power. (AllAfrica)

The drought spell that has hit most parts of Arusha and Manyara regions for about two consecutive years is tearing apart the Maasai social fabric and driving youths in large numbers to seek employment or beg for food in urban areas. (AllAfrica)

The Islamist fighters of Jubba regions under the management of Harakat Al-shabab Mujahideen have taken over the control of Af-madow town in Lower Jubba region in southern Somalia, just as there is no fighting continuing there in southern Somalia, officials told Shabelle radio on Sunday. (AllAfrica)

More than 60 prominent agricultural scientists and leaders have decried the almost total absence of agriculture in the climate talks, warning that the climate deal to be reached next month could lead to widespread famine and food shortages in the years ahead. (AllAfrica)

NEXT week Namibians will go to the polls in the Presidential and National Assembly elections. While voting is not compulsory in this country, it is nevertheless important that our people turn out in high numbers to exercise this right. (AllAfrica)

The president of Ibuka, an umbrella body of Genocide survivors' associations, has threatened to cease cooperation with the Arusha-based International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) for what the group described as "unfair judgment" in two cases where top Genocide suspects were acquitted. (AllAfrica)

The South African Police Service has signed a R55 million agreement with the Norwegian embassy to support a police-training project in Sudan. (AllAfrica)

Diski dance, a sequence of moves based on soccer tricks, is the official World Cup dance - and the city is out to set a world record for the most people doing it at the same time at the launch of the Cape Town Summer Festival this weekend. (AllAfrica)

ZANU PF's main wing led by retired army commander Solomon Mujuru has crushed a rival faction headed by Emmerson Mnangagwa, leaving the party in turmoil. (AllAfrica)

Renewed clashes in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have led to a further wave of refugees, leaving corpse-littered villages in the affected area deserted, say humanitarian officials. (AllAfrica)

The three-day United Nations summit on world food security was recently wrapped up in Rome with its host lamenting that it produced neither measurable targets nor specific deadlines for ending a scourge that afflicts more than 1 billion people around the planet. (AllAfrica)

Power in Kenya will be divided between a president and a prime minister under the new constitution. The draft, unlike the current law, is clear on the authority of the President and the PM. (AllAfrica)

Botswana continues to be seen as Africa’s least corrupt, and Somalia as the continent’s – and the world’s – most corrupt country, according to a new survey published this week. (AllAfrica)

Somali Islamist group al-Shabab says it has taken control of a key southern town without resistance from rival militants. (BBC News)

Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos has called for a crackdown on government corruption. (BBC News)

A Swiss court orders the seizure of $350m in assets from the son of Nigeria's ex-ruler Sani Abacha after a 10-year investigation. (BBC News)

More than 50,000 people flee DR Congo amid deadly ethnic clashes over fishing rights in the north-west, the UN says. (BBC News)

A British couple kidnapped by Somali pirates say via video footage that they fear they may be killed within a week. (BBC News)

East African leaders sign a common market trade agreement, allowing the free movement of people and goods. (BBC News)

Europe signs a $1bn deal with Nigeria, aimed at tackling corruption and promoting peace in the troubled Niger Delta. (BBC News)

South Africa score four tries to beat Italy for their first win of their European tour. (BBC News)

South African all-rounder Jacques Kallis has a fractured rib and will miss the one-day international series against England. (BBC News)

Ghana's FA Chairman declares Group B the Group of death following the draw for the 2010 African Cup of Nations in Angola. (BBC News)

US Somali youths recruited by homeland radicals (BBC News)

Is North Africa succumbing to dynastic rule? (BBC News)

How Botswana is putting more meat on its beef industry (BBC News)

The UN condemns violent attacks against Zimbabweans seeking work in South African vineyards, which has left many homeless. (BBC News)

Sierra Leone is to enlist youths as crime-fighting volunteers in the crime-ridden capital, Freetown, police say. (BBC News)

Twenty-six Ethiopians are convicted of plotting a coup, allegedly masterminded by an exiled opposition leader. (BBC News)

Somalia says it will ratify the UN's child rights convention, leaving the US as the only nation not backing the accord. (BBC News)