Reuters - Floods have displaced nearly 60,000 people in the last month in south Sudan with many at risk of malaria and other diseases, the semi-autonomous region's government said Tuesday.
Reuters - Libya freed 37 prisoners late on Tuesday, including at least one former detainee at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, who had been jailed for links to radical Islamist groups but have since renounced violence.
AFP - England upset China 1-0 and South Africa pulled off a shock 2-1 victory over Spain in the women's field hockey World Cup while host Argentina edged South Korea 1-0.
AFP - Rwanda will withdraw more than 3,000 peacekeepers from Sudan if the United Nations publishes a report on war crimes allegedly committed by Kigali in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), an army spokesman said Tuesday.
AFP - Three Russian helicopter crewmen kidnapped in Sudan's restive Darfur region have been freed, officials said on Tuesday, with one report indicating force was used to secure their release.
AFP - South Africa has made one change to the Springbok starting team to play Australia here on Saturday with coach Peter de Villiers hoping for a second win over the Wallabies.
AP - Rwanda says it is ready to withdraw its U.N. peacekeepers from Sudan if the U.N. publishes a report accusing Rwanda's army of possible genocide in the 1990s.
AP - Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has ended a visit to Italy marked by controversy over his call for Italians to convert to Islam and his request for European Union cash to stem the flow of illegal migrants.
AFP - Floods in south Sudan have forced more than 50,000 people from their homes, health officials said on Tuesday, warning that the situation could worsen.
AFP - Rwanda's new government must urgently review their "vague 'genocide ideology' and 'sectarianism' laws", which are being used to suppress political dissent, Amnesty International said Tuesday.
Reuters - Three Russian air crew members kidnapped in Darfur two days ago were released on Tuesday after a military operation by Sudan's army, officials said.
AFP - Three Russian helicopter crew members kidnapped in Sudan's restive Darfur region have been freed, officials said Tuesday, with one report indicating force was used to secure their release.