ZIMBABWE`S government said today that the G8 leaders` rejection of President Robert Mugabe`s legitimacy and threats of financial measures against his regime are racist and an insult to African leaders
TWO women were killed and three people injured when a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) vehicle was attacked in Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
BRITISH mercenary Simon Mann was jailed today for 34 years by a court in Equatorial Guinea for a failed 2004 coup plot in which he said the son of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher was also involved
GUNMEN killed the head of the UN Development Program today in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, the latest fatality in a string of attacks on aid workers in the lawless country
ZIMBABWE`s opposition said today post-election violence has claimed the lives of 103 of its supporters, and about 5000 are missing after being abducted by President Robert Mugabe`s ruling party