A Sadc tribunal has ruled that 78 farmers facing eviction can keep their farms because the land reform undermined the rule of law.

A group of doctors has put the cholera death toll at 800 throughout the country, amid reports that seven prisoners died at Chinhoyi Prison following an outbreak.

Three blasts have rocketed Baidoa town, a seat of Somali transitional Federal government on Sunday, witness said.

The spokesman for Somalia' s Islamic Courts Union (ICU) has rejected a power-sharing deal signed between the country' s Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and the opposition faction, Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia (ARS).

A MEETING between the LRA leader, his team and elders from northern Uganda at Ri-kwangba dragged on yesterday and delayed the anticipated signing of the final peace agreement.

The United Nations relief chief today wrapped up a two-day visit to southern Sudan by calling on international donors to help the region develop basic education and health-care services and quickly build up its road system as it recovers after

An angry mob from Tombo, a rural town 40 km from Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, on 24 November 2008 besieged the premises of Voice of Peninsular, a community radio station in the town and destroyed the station's broadcasting

THE violence in Jos, Plateau State capital, continued, yesterday, with reprisal attacks leading to more deaths and loss of property, forcing the state government to extend the curfew in some areas to 24 hours.

Reporters Without Borders today condemned official pressure on four journalists of the independent daily Leadership, charged with libel for saying that President Umaru Yar'Adua was "sick".

The Plateau State Government has ordered security operatives comprising men of the Nigerian Army, Air Force, and Mobile Police to 'shoot on sight' anybody fomenting crisis or defying the curfew order imposed on the state capital, Jos. The order was

The Ethiopian army has poured hundreds of additional troops into southern Somalia, a day after the Ethiopian government formally announced plans to withdraw by December.

A group of doctors has put the cholera death toll at 800 throughout the country, amid reports that seven prisoners died at Chinhoyi Prison following an outbreak.

An angry mob from Tombo, a rural town 40 km from Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, on 24 November 2008 besieged the premises of Voice of Peninsular, a community radio station in the town and destroyed the station's broadcasting

Reporters Without Borders today condemned official pressure on four journalists of the independent daily Leadership, charged with libel for saying that President Umaru Yar'Adua was "sick".

The United Nations relief chief today wrapped up a two-day visit to southern Sudan by calling on international donors to help the region develop basic education and health-care services and quickly build up its road system as it recovers after

Her Excellency Mrs. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, President of the Republic of Liberia, has by Proclamation, declared Monday, December 1, 2008 as " World AIDS Day" to be observed throughout the country as a Working Holiday. The Theme of the day is

By Sokari Ekine Press Statement from Black Women's Rape Action Project On 25 November 2008, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, we demand that the UK government meet its international obligations to provide protection to women seeking