Angry members of the public shouted in a German court Monday as two policemen were acquitted of the 2005 death of a handcuffed Sierra Leonean in a police cell.

Paris  - The run-off vote to chose a new leader for France's Socialist Party was too close to call early Saturday as the losing Socialist candidate in the 2007 French presidential election, Segolene

Washington  - Sub-Saharan Africa is facing a spike in inflation and a slowdown in growth over this year and the next as it deals with the triple threats of food and fuel price surges and some sp

German President Horst Koehler is to open African Screens - New Cinema from Africa to be presented in Berlin's House of Cultures of the World, it was announced Saturday. 

Support for the idea of transferring 1 billion euros (1.43 billion dollars) out of the European Union's farming budget to support poor farmers in Africa is growing, the head of

A lack of political will has prevented the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights from hearing a single case in the ten years since it was established, campaigners said Wednesday.

A spokesman for Minority Rights Group said that the failure to act came despite major human rights crises in Darfur, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zimbabwe.

African leaders warned Monday that the financial crisis enveloping advanced economies around the world should not spark a pull-back of aid to poorer countries.

The World Food Programme on Monday issued an appeal for nearly half a billion dollars to assist 9.6 million Ethiopians affected by drought and high food prices, for the next six months