The food security situation in Zimbabwe has deteriorated in all parts of the country, according to the latest multi-agency vulnerability assessment conducted in December.

United Nations officials in Angola on Wednesday said the reintegration of former child soldiers into civil society was underway despite the scale of the problem confronting the humanitarian community.

Tony Blair’s Camp David summit with George Bush at the end of the month could be the last time they look each other in the eye before plunging their alliance into a new war with Iraq. It will be a tense scene.

The teenage half of a pair of marksmen accused in a string of killings in the suburbs of Washington can be tried as an adult, and will be liable for the death penalty, a judge ruled yesterday.

Widespread and systematic sexual violence during a decade of war in Sierra Leone was committed on a far larger scale than the highly visible amputations for which the country became notorious, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch.

Both sides in Ivory Coast’s four-month civil war said they believed peace talks which started yesterday outside Paris could end a conflict that risks plunging west Africa into turmoil.

The African National Congress (ANC) has commended the England and Wales Cricket Board’s (ECB) decision to go ahead with its match in Harare, Zimbabwe, during the Cricket World Cup.