Two young people who tried to hijack an internal Ethiopian Airlines flight were shot dead on Sunday by national security agents on board.
The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, has begun screening Eritreans in Sudan to see if they are eligible for continued refugee status.
Britain has frozen 76 000 pounds in assets belonging to Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s ruling Zanu-PF Party.
US attorney Ed Fagan said he planned to initiate a class action lawsuit in the US against Switzerland’s two biggest banks and a US bank on behalf of victims of South Africa’s former apartheid regime.
Half the countries facing famine in southern Africa are stalling food aid from the US, fearing that genetically modified maize may cause health problems and harm their exports.
The leaders of the DRCongo and Rwanda signed a peace pact on Tuesday in Pretoria, asking the world to help them end four years of warfare in the DRC estimated to have claimed 2,5-million lives.
Although Africa still only makes up a small percentage of worldwide revenue, it is growing faster than most other regions, says Microsoft South Africa MD Gordon Frazer.
The United States has eased arms export restrictions imposed earlier this year against Zimbabwe to allow US hunters to bring firearms into the country.
An editor and reporter from Zimbabwe’s <I>The Standard</I> newspaper have been summoned by the police and questioned over pictures of prostitutes.
Margaret Thatcher carried out a rare engagement late on Tuesday to unveil a statue of herself, adorned with its very own sculpted handbag.