Sixty corpses of would-be refugees from Somalia and Ethiopia were found on a beach in Yemen over the weekend after smugglers forced many of them overboard, an international aid agency says
UN peacekeepers will "do the maximum" to protect civilians in rebel-threatened Goma, UN peacekeeping chief Alain Le Roy warned during a visit to the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo city
GUINEA soldiers shot dead a police officer and injured several other people today when they opened fire on a violent protest against fuel prices on the outskirts of the capital, a police source said
ZAMBIAN opposition leader Michael Sata has demanded a recount in last week`s presidential election, which he lost to the ruling party`s Rupiah Banda by just 35,000 votes, a spokesman said
ZAMBIA`S new President Rupiah Banda has promised to fight poverty and reach out to the opposition as he was sworn in today as the country`s fourth head of state, following a hotly fought election
PIRATES swarmed aboard an oil industry supply vessel working off the coast of Cameroon and kidnapped 10 crewmen, including seven French nationals, the ship`s owner said today
GUNMEN killed a South African peacekeeper with the UN-led mission in Sudan`s Darfur region and seriously wounded a female soldier, an official for the mission said today
