Zimbabwe’s opposition leader looked set on Sunday to return home from South Africa to face Robert Mugabe in a presidential run-off poll despite a risk of "more violence, more gloom, more betrayal". Morgan Tsvangirai had previously refused to say whether he would take part in the run-off, even though failure to do so would have handed victory to Mugabe.
African leaders, farmers and heads of international development agencies will meet in Lagos on Friday hoping to bring a new lease of life to the continent’s degraded soil and so tackle food shortages affecting over 200-million Africans. The theme of the summit, which runs from June 9 to 13 is "Nourish the soil, feed the continent."
A GRIEVING family has accused a Nigerian minister of lying over the circumstances of a car crash last week in which a newly-wed couple were killed – and leaving the pregnant young woman to die by the roadside. The family of Victor (28) and Naomi (29) Umoren, killed along with their driver in the December […]