ZIMBABWE President Robert Mugabe says he is "confident" a deal can be reached in power-sharing talks as negotiations broke up after a full day of negotiations
THE Mauritanian general who led a coup last week defended the ousting of the country`s president and said overnight initial international condemnation would not shake up the west African nation
ZIMBABWE`S political rivals were locked in power-sharing talks today with South African president Thabo Mbeki amid signs they had closed in on a deal aimed at ending the country`s protracted crisis
ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe will meet opposition MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai later today to discuss the formation of a possible unity government, his spokesman George Charamba said
THE leaders of a coup in Mauritania may have won the support of many local politicians but they face a tide of international outrage for ousting the desert nation`s first democratically elected president
A CANADIAN navy frigate is being deployed to the coast of Somalia to escort World Food Program ships carrying humanitarian aid to the region beset by pirates
THE junta that took over Mauritania in a military coup has promised "free and transparent" presidential elections in "the shortest possible period" in a statement read on national radio today
TROOPS overthrew Mauritania`s president in a military coup today after he tried to sack senior army officers accused of being behind a political crisis destabilising the country
ZIMBABWE`S rival parties issued a joint statement today calling on their supporters to halt all political violence in a sign that power-sharing talks may have moved closer to an agreement
