International Business News - AF http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif The secretary general of a Sudanese opposition party was killed in a car crash Saturday on a highway outside the capital, dealing a blow to the party as it prepares for elections expected next year. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081122/sudanese-opposition-leader-killed-in-car-crash.htm Sat, 22 Nov 2008 12:41:15 EST An international meeting has set new guidelines aimed at preventing tobacco companies from trying to influence national and global health policy. The 160 nations, which are party to the U.N.-sponsored Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, adopted the recommendations after a weeklong meeting in South Africa. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081122/anti-tobacco-meeting-adopts-new-guidelines.htm Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:57:57 EST MTV launched its first-ever music award program for Africa on Saturday, with acts from across the world's poorest continent nominated for prizes in the Nigerian capital. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081122/mtv-launches-african-music-awards.htm Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:09:10 EST Zimbabwe has refused to let Kofi Annan, Jimmy Carter and a South African human rights advocate visit the impoverished country for a humanitarian mission, the three said Saturday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/180456-south-africa-zimbabwe.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081122/carter-annan-others-refused-entry-to-zimbabwe.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081122/carter-annan-others-refused-entry-to-zimbabwe.htm Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:01:11 EST Surrounded by insurgent fighters, the bespectacled leader of Congo's rebels held his first public rally Saturday in newly conquered territory, telling the few thousand people who showed up: "Do not be afraid." http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/180406-congo-fighting.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081122/congo-rebels-to-hold-rally-in-seized-territory.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081122/congo-rebels-to-hold-rally-in-seized-territory.htm Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:26:21 EST Al-Qaida's offshoot in Algeria has carried out fewer terror attacks this year but some of those had a high number of casualties, an academic study said Friday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081121/study-fewer-terror-attacks-in-algeria-this-year.htm Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:43:52 EST The director of Congo's Virunga Park says rangers who fled fighting between rebels and soldiers are returning to protect its endangered mountain gorillas. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081121/rangers-return-to-protect-congo-mountain-gorillas.htm Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:06:44 EST The World Health Organization said Friday that 294 people have died from a cholera outbreak exacerbated by the country's collapsing health care system. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081121/who-294-deaths-in-zimbabwe-cholera-outbreak.htm Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:19:53 EST A white teenager has received four life sentences for a shooting spree that killed four blacks and wounded eight, re-igniting racial tensions in post-apartheid South Africa. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081121/white-s-african-sentenced-for-racist-killings.htm Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:52:31 EST Somali security forces and Islamic insurgents engaged in one of the fiercest gunbattles in recent weeks in the capital Friday, killing at least 17 people and wounding six, police and witnesses said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081121/somalia-gunbattle-kills-17-in-capital-6-wounded.htm Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:08:30 EST Looting soldiers tried to rape one woman and fatally shot another at a refugee camp, witnesses said Friday, as the United Nations prepared to send more peacekeepers to help protect traumatized civilians in eastern Congo. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/179575-congo-fighting.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081121/un-expects-new-peacekeepers-in-congo-in-weeks.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081121/un-expects-new-peacekeepers-in-congo-in-weeks.htm Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:40:39 EST Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and others are pressing ahead with a humanitarian mission to Zimbabwe, though the state newspaper in the troubled southern African country signaled Thursday they are unwelcome. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081120/mandela-group-presses-ahead-with-visit-to-zimbabwe.htm Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:13:32 EST His home was looted by wild government soldiers still pillaging this empty hilltop town. His fields are at the mercy of armed militias. And somewhere in the countryside, a rebel army is digging in. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/178941-congo-fighting.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081120/in-congos-remote-hills-a-struggle-to-survive.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081120/in-congos-remote-hills-a-struggle-to-survive.htm Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:58:38 EST Darfur rebels clashed with Sudanese government forces in northern Darfur on Thursday, leaving at least five rebels and one soldier dead, the government and rebels said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081120/rebels-sudanese-troops-clash-in-darfur.htm Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:53:57 EST African countries have agreed to negotiate as a bloc in talks on a new global warming treaty, a move meant to give the continent highly threatened by climate change a greater say in the future pact. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081120/africans-to-stick-together-in-climate-change-talks.htm Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:44:11 EST Madagascar officials are enthusiastic about a company's big farming plans for an undeveloped area but say the deal won't go ahead if it threatens the island's unique ecology. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081120/madagascar-enthusiastic-at-corn-deal-with-daewoo.htm Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:15:00 EST The closest 9-year-old Ruan Gamibeb has come to war is the fighting he sees on the news at night, when his family gathers around the television to watch Congo's latest horrors. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/178783-namibia-african-children.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081120/african-countries-ranked-for-child-friendliness.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081120/african-countries-ranked-for-child-friendliness.htm Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:17:55 EST Ben Affleck is talking to children and aid officials in refugee camps in war-torn eastern Congo in an effort to raise awareness of the conflict that has displaced at least 250,000 people. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081120/ben-affleck-visits-refugee-camps-in-eastern-congo.htm Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:32:18 EST The U.N. Security Council unanimously agreed Thursday to send 3,100 more peacekeeping troops to Congo, while rebels said they remained committed to a pullback from the front lines despite an army attack. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/178624-congo-fighting.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081120/rebels-no-clashes-after-fighters-pull-back.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081120/rebels-no-clashes-after-fighters-pull-back.htm Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:19:52 EST The recent commitments on global warming by U.S. President-elect Barack Obama mark a new beginning for world negotiations to replace the Kyoto Protocol, the head of the U.N.'s climate change body said Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081119/un-climate-change-chief-hails-obama-commitments.htm Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:30:44 EST