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Published:Wednesday | February 13, 2008 | 8:49 AM

The President of Bolivia, Evo Morales has declared the floods a national disaster.

Published:Tuesday | February 12, 2008 | 4:27 PM

Zimbabwe\'s ruling Zanu-PF party has expelled former Finance Minister, Simba Makoni from its ranks.

Published:Tuesday | February 12, 2008 | 12:43 PM

Masked men carrying high-powered weapons reportedly kidnapped two journalists in southern Iraq yesterday.

Published:Monday | February 11, 2008 | 1:56 PM

President of East Timor, Jose Ramos-Horta, remains hospitalised in critical condition after being shot by rebel soldiers yesterday morning.

Published:Friday | February 8, 2008 | 2:58 PM

President of Tanzania, Jakaya Kikwete has dissolved his cabinet following increasing accusations of corruption.

Published:Friday | February 8, 2008 | 12:39 PM

The British government is set to introduce a new points based immigration system on February 29.

Published:Friday | February 8, 2008 | 12:33 PM

The United States is threatening to bar Kenyan politicians and businessmen from entering the US, once they are alleged to have been involved in post election violence.

Published:Friday | February 8, 2008 | 12:29 PM

A Muslim Cleric is to be extradited from the UK to the US to answer a series of terror charges.

Published:Thursday | February 7, 2008 | 2:10 PM

Villagers in Ecuador have been ordered to leave their houses after a volcano shot columns of ash several miles into the air.

Published:Thursday | February 7, 2008 | 2:09 PM

A Kenyan policeman is to be charged with murder after he was filmed shooting at two men who were later found dead during election protests.

Published:Thursday | February 7, 2008 | 1:27 PM

Rescue teams are still searching for victims of tornadoes that ravaged five states in the United States on Tuesday.

Published:Tuesday | February 5, 2008 | 1:44 PM

Voting has begun in several US states in the biggest day of nominations in the race for US president.

Published:Tuesday | February 5, 2008 | 1:44 PM

A Hong Kong journalist who was jailed for spying in China has been released.

Published:Tuesday | February 5, 2008 | 1:00 PM

Thousands of people have fled the Chad capital, N’Djamena after two days of fierce fighting between the government and rebel forces in the city.

Published:Monday | February 4, 2008 | 2:03 PM

Crocodiles have killed three people and injured two others near the central Mozambique town of Chemba.

Published:Monday | February 4, 2008 | 2:02 PM

A search is now on for persons who went missing after a series of earthquakes hit the Great Lakes area of Rwanda and the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo yesterday.

Published:Monday | February 4, 2008 | 9:58 AM

Armed forces have used tanks and helicopter gun ships in an attempt to drive back rebels from the Presidential Palace in Chad’s capital N\'Djamena.

Published:Friday | February 1, 2008 | 3:37 PM

64 persons are dead following two bomb explosions in Baghdad.

Published:Wednesday | January 30, 2008 | 2:09 PM

More than half a million troops have been deployed in China to assist persons affected by severe snowstorms.

Published:Wednesday | January 30, 2008 | 11:44 AM

At least 100 passengers on a boat are feared dead after their vessel sank on Lake Tanganyika off the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Published:Tuesday | January 29, 2008 | 2:42 PM

A 37-year-old Birmingham man pleaded guilty to plotting to kidnap and kill a British soldier.

Published:Monday | January 28, 2008 | 8:58 PM

Preliminary charges have been filed against Jerome Kerviel, the trader blamed for huge losses at French bank Societe Generale.

Published:Monday | January 28, 2008 | 8:57 PM

The police are reportedly struggling to restore order in Kenya, amid a recent wave of violence linked to the disputed elections.

Published:Monday | January 28, 2008 | 2:48 PM

More than 250 students and several of their teachers are being held hostage in a school in Bannu Town, Pakistan.

Published:Monday | January 28, 2008 | 11:37 AM

At least seven people were killed in the Lebanese capital of Beirut, as protestors clashed with members of the security forces.

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