BRITISH mercenary Simon Mann, one of Africa`s last "dogs of war", went on trial in Equatorial Guinea today and the prosecution asked he be jailed for nearly 32 years for his role in a failed 2004 coup plot
ZIMBABWE President Robert Mugabe met a top United Nations official today, a source close to the UN said, 10 days before a run-off election that rights groups and Western powers say is tainted by violence
ZIMBABWEAN opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and 11 other members of his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) have been arrested and are being held at a police station, the MDC said today
