ZIMBABWE`S opposition said today it will not join any new government with President Robert Mugabe until power-sharing talks are concluded, after the 84-year-old declared he would name his own cabinet
A YOUNG French girl drowned while on holiday in Tunisia after her leg became trapped in the filter drain at the bottom of her hotel swimming pool, several sources said today
A SUDANESE passenger jet has been hijacked just after after taking off from Nyala, the largest town in the country`s war-torn Darfur region, and is heading for Libya, accordingt o an airline employee
ZIMBABWE`S new parliament got off to a stormy start today when the opposition flexed its new-found political muscle by heckling President Robert Mugabe in the most hostile legislature the veteran leader has faced in 28 years
A SUDANESE passenger jet hijacked shortly after takeoff today from the country`s war-torn region of Darfur by unknown assailants has landed in Libya with more than 100 people on board
A DEADLY firefight today killed at least 25 people and wounded scores after Sudanese security forces thrust into one of the largest camps for displaced people in Darfur, witnesses and rebels said
THE Opposition Movement for Democratic Change won a vote for the speaker of the Zimbabwe parliament today, hours after two of its lawmakers were detained by police
ZIMBABWE police arrested an opposition Movement for Democratic Change lawmaker in parliament today and more arrests of MPs are feared, a party spokesman said
THE family of Australian freelance journalist Nigel Brennan say they are deeply concerned following reports he was taken at gunpoint by unknown assailants outside the Somalian capital Mogadishu
