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Tsvangirai's ministers snub Zimbabwe cabinet

AFP - Monday, June 29 02:41 pm

HARARE (AFP) - Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's party boycotted a meeting of Zimbabwe's cabinet on Monday on the grounds that it made a mockery of the country's power-sharing deal. More »

Moves To Free Kidnapped Irish Aid Worker
SkyNews - Yesterday, 05:31 pm
The Department of Foreign Affairs said the envoy was urgently travelling to Sudan to seek the release of Irish woman Sharon Commins, 32, from Dublin, and her Ugandan colleague, Hilda Kuwuki, 42. More »
AU ruling means Bashir can travel in Africa: Sudan
Reuters - Yesterday, 01:43 pm
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan said on Saturday its president was free to travel across Africa after heads of state of the African Union voted not to cooperate with the International Criminal Court's indictment of him. More »
Lions Out For Revenge In Final Africa Test
SkyNews - Yesterday, 12:05 am
It seems like a good time to look at a couple of issues which have been raised since last Saturday's epic game in Pretoria. More »
Botched circumcisions leave 31 dead in S.Africa
AFP - Friday, July 3 04:52 pm
JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - Thirty-one teenage boys have died from complications after botched traditional circumcision rites in South Africa's rural Eastern Cape region, officials said on Friday. More »
German study sees job boom from Sahara solar project
Reuters - Thursday, July 2 06:43 pm
BERLIN (Reuters) - A project linking solar power from the Sahara to energy users in Europe and North Africa could create 240,000 German jobs and generate 2 trillion euros ($2,822 billion) worth of power by 2050, a study published on Thursday found. More »
WHO to start clinical trial on river blindness drug
AFP - Wednesday, July 1 03:35 pm
GENEVA (AFP) - The World Health Organisation said Wednesday it was launching a clinical trial for a drug that could halve the treatment period for river blindness, a disease that threatens 100 million people mostly in Africa. More »
Zimbabwe MDC ministers boycott cabinet meeting
Reuters - Monday, June 29 04:01 pm
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's MDC ministers boycotted a cabinet meeting chaired by President Robert Mugabe Monday, saying it had been brought forward to stop Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai from presiding over it. More »
Death toll in Nigeria collapsed building rises to 8
Reuters - Monday, June 29 01:50 pm
LAGOS (Reuters) - The death toll from a collapsed three-storey building in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos has risen to eight from five, the Red Cross said Monday. More »
Nigeria building collapse kills at least 5: rescuers
Reuters - Sunday, June 28 09:46 pm
LAGOS (Reuters) - A three-storey building collapsed in Nigeria's main commercial city of Lagos Sunday during torrential rains, killing at least five people and seriously injuring scores more, rescue workers said. More »