Togo’s army sealed its borders on Sunday and put Faure Gnassingbe in power following the death of his father, President Gnassingbe Eyadema. The African Union condemned the move as ”a military coup d’état”. Eyadema (69) Africa’s longest-serving ruler after 38 years in power, died on Saturday, apparently of a heart attack.

Al Frisby has spent the better part of his life in rooms filled with rebellious teenagers, but the last years have been particularly trying for the high school biology teacher. He has met parents who want him to teach that God created Eve out of Adam’s rib, and then then adjusted the chromosomes to make her a woman.

The United States Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, said on Sunday night that Israel had ”hard decisions” to make to create the correct environment for peace and a Palestinian state, as she began a two-day visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories.

The leaders of the world’s richest nations are on course to sign a deal in the summer on debt relief, aid and trade to help the world’s poorest nations, the British government said on Sunday. Finance ministers from the G7 developed countries agreed an action plan at the weekend.

Members of Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu-PF party were attacked by a group of opposition supporters in their offices in Johannesburg on Sunday, the party’s district chairperson said. ”They started beating us up. They told us, ‘Why do you support the president [Robert Mugabe]?”’ said the chairperson.

A seven-year-old autistic boy who went missing on Sunday in Berario, north-west Johannesburg, had still not been found on Monday morning, his father said. The editor of the Sowetan Sunday World, Thabo Leshilo, father of Ofentse Leshilo, said this is not the first time his son, who is extremely hyperactive, has gone missing.