AFRICAN EAGLE RESOURCES plc

                          DIRECTOR DEALING



African Eagle Resources plc ("African Eagle", "AFE" or "the Company",
ticker AIM: AFE, AltX: AEA) was notified on 19 January 2009 that the
Park Superannuation Fund, controlled by Mr John Park, a Director, has
purchased 200,000 ordinary shares in the Company. On 15 January 2009
100,000 ordinary shares were purchased at 1.5pence per share and on
19 January 2009 100,000 ordinary shares were purchased at 1.75pence
per share.  Accordingly Mr Park's beneficial interest in the share
capital of the Company is now 6,276,801 ordinary shares representing
approximately 2.95per cent of the issued share capital of the
Company.


Mark Parker
Managing Director
African Eagle Resources plc

20 January 2009


For further information:


Mark Parker
Managing Director
African Eagle
+44 20 7248 6059
+44 77 5640 6899

Nicola Marrin
Seymour Pierce Limited, London
Nominated Adviser
+ 44 20 7107 8000

Charmane Russell
Russell & Associates, Johannesburg
+ 27 11 8803924
+27 82 8928052

Ed Portman / Leesa Peters
Conduit PR, London
+44 20 7429 6607
+44 (0) 7733 363 501


About African Eagle


African Eagle is  a diversified mineral  exploration and  development
company operating  in  eastern  and  central  Africa.  The  Company's
principal advanced projects  are the Mkushi  Copper Mines project  in
Zambia, for which a draft Feasibility Study was completed in Q4 2008,
and the  Dutwa  nickel  laterite discovery  in  Tanzania,  where  the
Company announced a significant resource at the end of 2008.

African Eagle has also  defined a gold resource  estimated at half  a
million ounces  at  the  Miyabi  gold project  in  Tanzania,  and  is
evaluating a  second  promising  nickel  laterite  deposit  which  it
recently discovered in  Tanzania. The Company  holds a  well-balanced
portfolio of promising  earlier stage gold  and base metal  projects,
including the Ndola and Mokambo projects in the Zambian Copperbelt.

Zambia,  Tanzania  and  Mozambique,  the  sites  of  African  Eagle's
projects, are all  countries which have  highly prospective  geology,
relatively low  above-ground risks  and track  records of  successful
major investments in the metals and minerals industries.

African Eagle specialises in  project generation and exploration.  To
take its discoveries into  production, it seeks  to sign up  industry
partners with  records of  successful mine  development. These  joint
ventures and,  in  time, the  revenue  from advanced  projects,  will
finance future exploration and new discoveries.

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