Africa
Zimbabwe declares national emergency new
Zimbabwe has declared a national emergency over its cholera epidemic and the collapse of its health system.
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Zimbabwe's cholera victims find salvation in South Africa
Thursday, 4 December 2008
Mugabe's police break up protest against health crisis by doctors and nurses
Kenya tribunal to punish organisers of poll violence
Thursday, 4 December 2008
The organisers of Kenya's post-election violence may be barred from politics or face lengthy jail sentences under a draft law to set up a special tribunal.
Surgeon carries out Congo op by text
Wednesday, 3 December 2008
A doctor in Congo performed an amputation using text message instructions from a colleague.
Mugabe seeks revenge on soldiers that rebelled
Wednesday, 3 December 2008
Zimbabwe's state security begins to break down after soldiers vent anger at economic collapse.
Rwandan pop star jailed for inciting genocide
Wednesday, 3 December 2008
A UN court in Tanzania has sentenced a former pop star to 15 years in prison for his part in inciting Rwanda's 1994 genocide.
Somali pirates fail to hijack US cruise liner
Tuesday, 2 December 2008
Pirates near Somalia chased and shot at a US cruise liner with more than 1,000 people on board but failed to hijack the vessel, a maritime official said today.
Unpaid Zimbabwe soldiers fight police
Tuesday, 2 December 2008
Gunfire broke out in the centre of the Zimbabwean capital when rampaging, unpaid soldiers attacked money changers and clashed with police.
Somali pirates agree on ransom for tanks ship
Monday, 1 December 2008
Somali pirates have agreed on a ransom for a Ukrainian freighter carrying tanks and other heavy weapons and it could be released within days, said Mikhail Voitenko, a spokesman for the owner, Vadim Alperin. The MV Faina could be freed, with its 20-man crew, if agreement is reached on how to get the ransom money to the pirates, who seized the ship off the coast of Somalia in late September, said Mr Voitenko, editor of Maritime Bulletin-Sovfrakht, a shipping news website.
Death toll hits 400 in Nigerian clashes
Monday, 1 December 2008
Residents took more bodies to the main mosque in the Nigerian city of Jos yesterday, bringing the death toll from two days of clashes between Muslim and Christian gangs to about 400.
Now anthrax takes toll on the starving in Zimbabwe
Monday, 1 December 2008
To add to the peril of cholera, Zimbabwe's beleaguered population is now facing anthrax. An outbreak of the deadly infection has killed two children and one adult and spread to 32 others. It is threatening to wipe out at least 60,000 livestock in the northern Zambezi Valley, aggravating the food crisis, Save the Children warned yesterday.
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