Africa
Tsvangirai ally faces death penalty as trial begins
Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's ally Roy Bennett went on trial accused of terrorism yesterday in a case that has stoked tensions in the unity government with President Robert Mugabe.
Inside Africa
Somali pirates in record attack
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Somali pirates yesterday attacked an oil tanker and fired automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades farther out at sea than any previous assault, suggesting that pirate capabilities are growing as they increase activity off East Africa.
Foreign Office warns Mann to 'keep quiet'
Sunday, 8 November 2009
Powerful people have an interest in the mercenary behind the 'Wonga Coup' keeping his own counsel.
UN attempts to slow the new scramble for Africa
Saturday, 7 November 2009
Alarm over scale of foreign holdings and secretive land deals by wealthy nations
British 'Indiana Jones' finds missing legs of 900-year-old Buddhist statue
Saturday, 7 November 2009
It sounds like the plot of an Indiana Jones movie: an archaeology professor with little more to go on than a yellowing photograph discovers part of a 900-year-old statue deep in the Cambodian jungle, rewriting history in the process.
Prosecutor arrives in Kenya on trail of war crimes
Friday, 6 November 2009
Intervention by International Criminal Court greeted with fury by senior politicians
MDC pushes for power-share deal
Friday, 6 November 2009
Zimbabwe's MDC party yesterday ended its boycott of the government, giving President Robert Mugabe a month to settle a new power-sharing deal.
Court freezes Trafigura compensation
Thursday, 5 November 2009
Robert Verkaik: Lawyers are concerned that African ruling could deprive toxic waste victims of £30m.
Zimbabwe to escape censure over abuses in diamond mines
Wednesday, 4 November 2009
Key witness threatened as Mugabe regime mounts lobbying campaign.
Maasai feel brunt of West's crisis in giving
Tuesday, 3 November 2009
Selina Cuff: The skinny remains of their herds hunt in vain for a blade of grass in a once fertile and rich land that it now blown with dust.
Jailed British mercenary pardoned over coup plot
Tuesday, 3 November 2009
Simon Mann is being freed less than two years year after he was jailed for 34 years in Equatorial Guinea.
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