Africa
Jestina Mukoko: 'Mugabe's henchmen came for me before dawn'
For years Jestina Mukoko fearlessly catalogued cases of murder, rape and torture in Zimbabwe. Then the regime seized her.
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Inflation off the scale
Friday, 16 January 2009
Daniel Howden: Zimbabwe introduced Z$100 trillion note, worth about £20 on black market.
Mugabe 'to hold talks with rival'
Thursday, 15 January 2009
Zimbabwe's main opposition leader today said he is to meet with President Robert Mugabe in the next week to try to resolve their crippled country's political impasse.
UN 'should take over control of Zimbabwe's health system'
Wednesday, 14 January 2009
Doctors' group calls for drastic action as cholera death toll tops 2,000
Zuma to fight election under a cloud of corruption charges
Tuesday, 13 January 2009
Court rules case against ANC leader can resume
Warlord told his troops to 'traumatise and terrorise'
Tuesday, 13 January 2009
A Congolese warlord and one-time vice-president has been accused of ordering the rape of hundreds of women on the opening day of the most important case to come before the world's first permanent war crimes court.
Ethiopian troops quit Mogadishu
Tuesday, 13 January 2009
Ethiopian troops supporting Somalia's Western-backed government have quit their main bases in Mogadishu, witnesses said, heralding the start of an uncertain new chapter for the anarchic capital.
Pirate's body washed ashore along with ransom
Monday, 12 January 2009
The body of a Somali pirate who drowned just after receiving a huge ransom washed onshore with $153,000 in cash yesterday.
Court opens way for new Zuma charges
Monday, 12 January 2009
South Africa's appeals court today overturned a judge's ruling dismissing graft charges against ruling ANC leader Jacob Zuma, opening the way for fresh corruption charges against him.
Somalian pirates drown with ransom cash
Sunday, 11 January 2009
The most audacious raid in their country's history of piracy ended in tragedy for the kidnappers
Saudi supertanker crew 'on way home'
Saturday, 10 January 2009
The crew of the Saudi supertanker seized by Somali pirates are on the way home, the ship's owners say, a day after they paid a $3m (£2m) ransom for the return of the ship.
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