Africa
Pilgrimage to the house where history was rewritten
Mandela Anniversary: Prison bungalow where Nelson Mandela negotiated with de Klerk to be turned into a museum.
Inside Africa
Sick leader 'loses power' in Nigeria
Wednesday, 10 February 2010
Nigeria's parliament recognised Vice President Goodluck Jonathan as acting head of state yesterday, more than two months after its ailing President, Umaru Yar'Adua, was admitted to hospital in Saudi Arabia with a heart condition.
How the Seychelles became a pirates' paradise
Monday, 8 February 2010
With Somali buccaneers heading south in search of a safe haven, the islanders fear for their honeymoon reputation. Daniel Howden reports
Africa's illicit money sent to Western banks
Sunday, 7 February 2010
Some of the continent's leaders used the US financial system to protect millions of dollars
Zuma apologises for fathering illegitimate child
Sunday, 7 February 2010
South African President's 'rampant libido' provokes fury in country where 5.7 million are HIV-infected
The Big Question: What would a genocide charge mean for Sudan's leader and his country?
Thursday, 4 February 2010
Jacob Zuma criticised over love child report
Tuesday, 2 February 2010
A South African presidential spokesman today called a newspaper story that the country's polygamist leader had fathered a child out of wedlock "a private, personal issue" without confirming or denying the report.
The day I ended apartheid
Tuesday, 2 February 2010
Twenty years ago today, FW de Klerk stunned the world. Ivan Fallon reveals the extraordinary story
Britons kidnapped by pirates plead for deal
Monday, 1 February 2010
Paul and Rachel Chandler made a desperate appeal for the Government to intervene.
Back to Africa: A new Haitian homeland?
Monday, 1 February 2010
If a proposal under consideration by the African Union this week were to bear fruit, Haitians made homeless by the earthquake could start afresh in a new homeland in Africa.
Nigerian rebels end ceasefire and threaten oil attacks
Saturday, 30 January 2010
Nigeria's main militant group called off a three-month-old ceasefire in the Niger Delta on today and threatened to unleash "an all-out assault" on Africa's biggest oil and gas industry.
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