DAMASCUS, Syria – Syria’s fo- reign minister says genocide charges against Sudan’s presi- dent set a dangerous new precedent. Walid al-Moallem says the International Criminal Court “trespassed beyond its prerogatives” when its ...   Lees meer

BRUSSELS – The European Union will toughen sanctions against Zimbabwe next week, hitting businessmen backing President Robert Mugabe’s regime for the first time, EU diplomats said yesterday. “An in-principle agreement” on the move was reached overnight between EU ambassadors, ...   Lees meer

ACCRA – Two British teenaged girls left a jail in Ghana yesterday after a year in detention for trying to smuggle cocaine to Britain, prison officers said. Yasemin Vatansever and Yatunde Diya, both then 16, were arrested in July 2007 at Ghana’s ...   Lees meer

OSLO, Norway – A rescue service official says a Norwegian ship was hijacked by pirates in Nigeria but was released after two hours. Norwegian Rescue Service spokesman Stein Solberg says the 22-member crew on the Spar Gemini ship were “pushed around” ...   Lees meer

NAIROBI, Kenya – Three Chinese citizens were arrested yesterday at Nairobi’s international airport carrying dozens of pieces of ivory, including chopsticks, bracelets and carved figurines. The two women and one man had about 2.5 kilograms of ivory, ...   Lees meer

DAKAR – The new Mediterranean Union, a brainchild of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, will split Africa and also erode the African Union, Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade said yesterday. The outspoken Wade said the new forum, launched last week and ...   Lees meer

HARARE – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe yesterday accused Britain of trying to seize control of resources in the devastated African nation as his government announced inflation had risen to 2.2 million percent. Mugabe, re-elected last month in a ...   Lees meer

This file photo taken on March 21, 1994 shows African National Congress (ANC) President Nelson Mandela, wearing leopard skin traditional clothes, holding a white dove for peace at a rally to commemorate the 34th anniversary of the massacre of 69 black demonstrators by the police in Sharpville, ...   Lees meer

MOSCOW – Russia yesterday hit back against criticism of its UN Security Council veto on sanctions against Zimbabwe last week, saying the episode put in doubt its relations with Britain and the United States. “I have to question the character of ...   Lees meer

Former president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela is presented with commemorative postage stamps yesterday in Johannesburg. Mandela celebrates his 90th birthday on Friday, with celebrations and events being held throughout the year.   Lees meer

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – Zimbabwe’s opposition says 14 of its members have been freed after being cleared of charges of political violence. The Movement for Democratic Change says the ac- tivists were acquitted Monday after the state failed to pro- ...   Lees meer

KHARTOUM – The United Nations urged hundreds of staff members to stay at home yesterday as crowds of Sudanese gathered to protest against war crimes charges levelled against their president by an international prosecutor. The International Criminal Court’ ...   Lees meer

JOS, Nigeria – A Nigerian court upheld the disputed election of the Senate president yesterday, ending uncertainty over who would run Africa’s most populous nation if President Umaru Yar’Adua loses his seat in a legal battle. As holder of ...   Lees meer

THE HAGUE – The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) prosecutor was poised to seek the arrest of Sudan’s president yesterday for alleged genocide in Darfur in a move Khartoum warns could set fire to the region. The prosecutor is widely expected ...   Lees meer

NAIROBI, Kenya – A shootout between police and robbers in a hotel and casino parking lot yesterday killed three suspects and two workers who were caught in the crossfire, police and witnesses said. The firing started as officers chased suspects who were trying to rob the Mayfair Casino, ...   Lees meer

ADDIS ABABA – African Union Commission chief Jean Ping will hold an emergency meeting on the political crisis in Zimbabwe with South African President Thabo Mbeki, a source said yesterday. Ping “is in Paris but is due to urgently change his ...   Lees meer

PARIS – British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said yesterday he would seek wider European sanctions against President Robert Mugabe’s regime in Zimbabwe at an EU ministers’ meeting next week. “We are looking at a deeper hit on the financial sector and a wider travel ban, ...   Lees meer

HARARE – Zimbabwe’s rival parties have moved closer to a deal to allow fully-fledged talks on the country’s crisis, state media said yesterday, after sanctions against Robert Mugabe’s regime were vetoed at the UN. Following vetoes ...   Lees meer

DIE Zimbabwiese regering het teen verlede week nog glad nie ‘n nuwe dringende aansoek voor die streek se heel hoogste geregtelike gesag betwis dat hy ‘n bevel om meer as 70 wit boere gewikkel in ‘n grondgeding met die Mugaberegime te beskerm, grof laat skend het nie.   Lees meer