 | Myjoyonline.com - President John Evans Atta Mills at the weekend unveiled the statue of Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's first President at the forecourt of the new African Union (AU) building in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. |
 | Times of India - ADDIS ABABA (ETHIOPIA): The United Nations has urged Sudan and its new neighbour South Sudan to resolve all outstanding issues threatening peace and security between them, Xinhua reported. |
 | Bloomberg - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will attend a United Nations Security Council meeting Jan. 31 to show support for an Arab League plan to end the violence in Syria, an Obama administration official said. |
 | Times LIVE - The revolution is being tweeted. But it's not the revolution you're thinking about. Though Twitter played a prominent role in last year's Arab Spring uprisings - but not quite as prominent as it was made out to be by a keenly observing outside world ... |
 | Xinhua - BEIJING, Jan. 29 (Xinhuanet) --The 18th African Union Summit opens on Sunday in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. Leaders and delegates from 50 members of the union will focus on boosting African trade, amid growing global economic uncertainty. |
 | Xinhua - ADDIS ABABA, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- Jia Qinglin, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), delivered a speech at the 18th summit of the African Union on Sunday. |
 | Channel News Asia - DAKAR: Senegal's opposition readied Monday for mass resistance to President Abdoulaye Wade's controversial third term bid, which a court validated in a late-night ruling despite violent dissent. |
 | Daily Mail - By Daily Mail Reporter Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe is planning to retire after his country's next elections, it was claimed yesterday. |
 | Nigerian Tribune - President Goodluck Jonathan has appealed for patience and support of the people of Edo State and the South-South for the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment (SURE) programme of his administration. |
 | Times LIVE - Her death, which was announced by Mandela's grandson Nkosi Zwelivelile Mandela, comes hours after Madiba left Mthatha yesterday for his Johannesburg home while his house at Qunu village is being renovated. |
 | Newsday - World Newsday > News > World WORLD BRIEFS Published: January 29, 2012 8:48 PM SUDAN: 29 Chinese workers abducted Rebels have kidnapped 29 Chinese workers who were building a road in a remote stretch of the country, Chinese and Sudanese sources said ... |
 | Ninemsn - By ninemsn staff A waitress who guided passengers to safety and gave away her life vest before perishing on the Costa Concordia has been hailed as a hero. |
 | DAWN.com - KABUL, Jan 29: Afghanistan and Pakistan plan to open a second front in negotiations with the Taliban in Saudi Arabia as US-brokered talks get under way in Qatar, officials said on Sunday. |
 | Houston Chronicle - A protester holds a bloodied pamphlet after clashes erupted outside the Egyptian state TV building in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012. |
 | CNN (blog) - Editor's Note: This is an edited version of an article from the 'Oxford Analytica Daily Brief'. Oxford Analytica is a global analysis and advisory firm that draws on a worldwide network of experts to advise its clients on their strategy and performance ... |
 | Saudi Gazette - By Joe Avancena DAMMAM - The recently launched aggressive marketing strategy of King Fahd International Airport (KFIA) is attracting more international and regional airlines to use its facilities. |
 | Xinhua - ATHENS, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos dismissed on Sunday the idea that a European Commissioner should oversee the execution of the Greek state budget, as the debt-laden country struggles to overcome a financial crisis ... |
 | Ninemsn - More intense heat waves due to global warming could diminish wheat crop yields around the world through premature ageing, according to a study published in Nature Climate Change. |
 | Economic Times - If 2011 was the year of the tablet, then 2012 will see ultrabooks trying to corner its market share. The new, slim, gorgeous-looking machines will try and wrest back from the slate what it wrenched away from netbooks, laptops and PCs over the last ... |
 | Myjoyonline.com - Research conducted by Kenyan-based Portland Communications and Tweetminster indicate 11.5 million tweets originated from Africa in the last three months of 2011. |
 | Daily News & Analysis - Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates wrote Steve Jobs a letter as he was dying, which ended up meaning so much to the Apple's visionary co-founder that he kept it next to his bed, it has emerged. |
 | PopHerald.com - A new report is claiming that ASUS, the manufacturer of popular Android tablet computers, is currently working on a new Windows 8 portable computer with Kinect. |
 | Daily Mail - By Daily Mail Reporter Sometimes finding love is like chasing rainbows, but it seems Jennifer Lopez has found both. The singer, 42, was spotted admiring a spectacular an arch of colours that formed over the sea from her Miami hotel balcony. |
 | Scottish Daily Record - KERMIT the Frog has made a huge splash with his return to the big screen in The Muppet Movie. Already a box office smash in the US, the film sees Kermit, Miss Piggy and pals fighting to stop the Muppet Theatre being flattened by developers. |
 | NewsDire - BRUSSELS -- The suspension of Olympic champion Kenenisa Bekele and 34 others was lifted Tuesday, clearing the way for the Ethiopian great to run at the London Games. |
 | ABC Online (blog) - When it was done, once the last winner was hit in an Australian Open that had been taken into a third week, closing a final the length of which had never previously been seen, realisation set in. |
 | EthioSports - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - The Ethiopian Women nation soccer team “Dinkinesh” (Lucy) defeated their Egyptian counterpart 4-0 in the return leg match of the African Women's Soccer Championship Preliminary qualifier here today to advance to the First round ... |
 | The Zimbabwe Standard - BY OUR STAFF NINE people in every 1 000 in Harare are at risk of developing colon or liver cancer from eating contaminated fish harvested from Lake Chivero and other water bodies around Harare, local scientific studies have indicated. |
 | Montreal Gazette - A sleepy snake came to a rather untimely end after having its head half chewed off by a fearless toddler in an Arab town in northern Israel, the child's family told AFP on Friday. |