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Prime Minister Raila Odinga has said President Kibaki was not "a Robert Mugabe" as Britain opened its purse strings for the two leaders, whose bitter feud over the outcome of last year's presidential elections ...

Canada will not seek the return of a young detainee at Guantanamo Bay, officials said Wednesday, a day after the release of a video showing the teenage prisoner sobbing for his mother and pleading for Canada's ...

A police sting in Gabon brought down a ring of grave robbers suspected of selling human skulls to makers of traditional medicines and amulets, officials said Wednesday.

Private jets, Bugatti cars, a shark-filled aquarium and enough bank accounts to paper the new luxury yacht - the extraordinary capacity of some African leaders and their families for apparent self-enrichment ...

R OBERT Mugabe may have hoped to return home from last week's AU summit in Sharm-el-Sheikh with his credibility intact and recognised as Zimbabwe's legitimate president.

President Mugabe's press secretary George Charamba also said here that the crisis in the country was of a different proportion from the post-election crisis that rocked Kenya, hence would require a different ...

'Union Government will take off in January' Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt - Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade has said the African federal government will be set up next January by those countries that are ready to ...

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The African Union's reputation suffered a setback during the past week when its leaders faltered in the face of Robert Mugabe's blunt challenge to democratic norms in Zimbabwe.

I DID not expect much to come out of the African Union summit in Egypt this week.

If the Southern African Development Community "wished to be taken seriously" it would have to declare Robert Mugabe's presidential claim illegitimate, a regional analyst told IRIN.

The bodies of at least 37 suspected immigrants were washed up on a beach in Gabon's capital Libreville on Tuesday.

The Pentagon announced charges Monday against the alleged al-Qaeda mastermind behind the October 2000 attack on the USS Cole and said it would seek the death penalty.

President Mugabe of Zimbabwe at the African Union summit at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt on Monday.

At least a dozen African migrants drowned when their boat sank overnight off the coast of Gabon.

Jul. 1 - At least 37 bodies of suspected would-be migrants to Europe are found dead on the seafront of Gabon's capital Libreville.

President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa privately warned Zimbabwe's regime that suppressing the opposition and confronting Britain and other rich nations would cause "social and economic crisis", it has emerged.

New York The Security Council today welcomed the recent peace agreement reached by authorities in the Central African Republic and two rebel groups operating in the impoverished and strife-torn country.

AFRICA has the notoriety of bearing some of the worst rulers in the world. Zimbabwe, where Robert Mugabe has been President since 1980, is not exceptional.

The United States congratulates President of the Central African Republic Franois Boziz, Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations Franois Fall, and the signatory parties to the ...