THE slaughter in Darfur was triggered by global climate change and that more such conflicts may be on the horizo, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says in an article published today
LIBYAN leader Muammar Gaddafi and visiting Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe want African leaders to agree next month to unite Africa under one government to help it solve its own problems, state media said today
SUDAN accepted the deployment of a hybrid African Union-United Nations force for Darfur, in a move to end the violence and bring humanitarian aid to the war-ravaged region
POLICE stopped Egyptians voting overnight in areas where the opposition Muslim Brotherhood is strong, in the first elections under an amended constitution designed to push the Islamists out of politics
ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe insisted overnight that the farming sector could help bring about an economic revival as he handed equipment over to beneficiaries of his controversial land reforms
THE African Union, the United Nations and the Sudanese government opened talks in Ethiopia today on the deployment of a hybrid AU-UN force of 23,000 peacekeepers to Sudan`s war-torn region of Darfur
TWO European envoys overnight met six foreign medics on death row in Libya for allegedly infecting children with the AIDS virus and resolved to use all means possible to secure their release
MILITANTS released 12 foreign hostages in Nigeria`s oil-producing Niger Delta as a prelude to peace talks with the government, a state government spokesman said
