Kenya reluctantly handed over key evidence in the suicide bombing of a Mombasa tourist hotel to Israeli investigators yesterday, and released the bodies of three of the 16 dead to their families for burial.<br>
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The pending settlement of a land dispute case in northern KwaZulu-Natal could become an example for the rest of South Africa, which, like its neighbour Zimbabwe, is faced with a need to conduct land reform.
For years, populations in northern Cameroon have had to live with bandits and the impact of banditry on economic activities, transport and ordinary people’s lives.
A visiting team of Argentinean forensic experts said on Wednesday they would identify mass graves from Sierra Leone’s brutal decade-long civil war and open them to determine how the victims died.
The former chief executive of the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority was pushed into court in a hospital bed to hear a judge convict him on 13 counts of taking bribes from international firms.
THE village of Gumbi is semi-deserted, its people in rags and its larders bare. In the past few months there have been 17 deaths from hunger here. This should be harvest time, with the maize full in the fields, but the crops have either failed or been eaten unripe.
Sierra Leone’s new Truth and Reconciliation Commission intends to start receiving statements from the public and conducting hearings in October.
The Sudanese government has suspended peace talks with southern rebels in protest over an attack on a key government garrison town in the south.
The Moroccan intelligence service has arrested five Saudis linked with al-Qaeda suspected of preparing a terrorist attack in Morocco.
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The Johannesburg World Summit on Wednesday moves its attention to two of the issues central to sustainable development and arguably the most important for the poorest of the poor; water and sanitation, and energy.