A bomb exploded on a bus in central Nairobi during a security search before it left for the Ugandan capital Kampala, killing three so far.
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai urged their supporters to shun violence ahead of elections planned for 2011.
It’s a question you’ve probably often asked yourself, while idly travelling through foreign climes: should I get myself a nice swastika tattoo?
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/ 20 December 2010
Frustrated travellers in Europe expressed fury on Monday at transportation officials’ inability to clear snow and ice from planes and runways.
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/ 20 December 2010
Trade union Solidarity has accused Standard Bank of an "arrogant slap in the face" for employees facing retrenchment.
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/ 20 December 2010
Somali pirates on two skiffs seized the Panama-flagged merchant ship MV ORNA after firing small arms and rocket-propelled grenades at the vessel.
The SABC said on Monday the Congress of the People’s national committee meeting has been postponed.
The EU decided to slap visa bans on 19 Ivorians, including incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo and his powerful wife, Simone.
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/ 20 December 2010
The police said on Monday they were "surprised" by the <em>Sunday Independent</em>’s allegations that a reporter had been placed under surveillance.
They are the online equivalent of enclosure riots: the haystack-burning, fence-toppling protests by peasants losing their rights to the land.