AN American journalist and filmmaker has been arrested in Nigeria`s oil-rich, restive south on suspicion of spying, an international media freedom watchdog said today
EGYPTIAN tycoon Hisham Talaat Mustafa was charged today with paying two million dollars for the brutal killing of Lebanese pop singer Suzanne Tamim, reportedly his one-time lover
A plane carrying 17 passengers and crew, including humanitarian workers, that went missing in east Democratic Republic of Congo has crashed into a mountain and there is no sign of survivors
MUSLIMS around the world this week begin the fasting and feasting month of Ramadan amid hopes of violence easing in some of the Islamic world`s conflict hotspots
THE main militant group in Nigeria`s oil-producing Niger Delta said it had launched a series of attacks on the army, killing 29 soldiers, but a military spokesman denied there was any fighting
ZIMBABWE`S rival parties have returned home from talks in South Africa, officials said today, with no sign of a power-sharing deal to resolve the country`s bitter political crisis
EGYPTIAN archaeologists have uncovered the burial chamber and coffin of King Senusret II who was believed to have ruled Egypt from 1897 BC to 1878 BC, it was reported today
ZIMBABWE`S president Robert Mugabe has handed the country`s only Olympic medallist in Beijing a $US100,000 cash reward for her performance at the games
SENEGAL has jailed a Belgian retiree and his male Senegalese domestic helper for two years for "homosexual marriage and acts against nature", their lawyer said today
