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The wives of four South African men abducted on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, nearly three years ago have made an emotional plea for help to President Jacob Zuma.

Harare - Zimbabwe's lower house of parliament on Wednesday passed a bill to reform central bank operations that will reduce the powers of its governor, blamed by critics for the country's economic crisis.

Dissident journalist Taoufik Ben Brik has gone on trial before a Tunis court on aggression charges that the defence claims are trumped up.

Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai talks to journalists at Harare airport before leaving for a trip to Morocco and Libya Zimbabwean security forces have started withdrawing from the country's eastern diamond fields to meet Kimberley Process reforms over human rights abuses, the government said yesterday.

United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo personnel secure a Compagnie Africaine d'Aviation plane that crashed in Goma airport / Reuters A PLANE has landed on hardened lava after overshooting a runway in eastern Congo, injuring 20 people Passengers onboard the plane, which was flying from Kinshasa to Goma, warned the crew of heavy ...

In this Tuesday, May 19, 2009 file photo, Lebanese model, actress, and singer Haifa Wehbe arrives at the 62nd International film festival in Cannes, southern France.

A government-appointed panel this week unveiled a draft constitution that is part of wide-ranging efforts to avoid a repeat of political violence that saw more than 1,000 people killed after Kenya's December 2007 presidential elections.

The global recession is not dampening America's international drive to stop AIDS, the head of the campaign said Wednesday.

Cabinet has decided to set up a new anti-corruption inter-ministerial committee to deal effectively with all incidents of corruption in the public service, government spokesman Themba Maseko announced.

Airbus said Wednesday it agreed to sell six jetliners to newly created Senegal Airlines, giving the European plane maker bragging rights to more than $5 billion worth of orders at a subdued Dubai Airshow.

The Scottish Government is facing demands to release all records on the Lockerbie bomber, 90 days after he was freed from jail on compassionate grounds.

Jennifer Hudson is set to play Nelson Mandela's former wife Winnie in a forthcoming film.

Barack Obama said Wednesday that he met briefly with a half brother who lives in China and who recently wrote a semi-autobiographical novel about the abusive Kenyan father they share.

Tuesday November 17, 2009 11:13 a.m. FILE - In this undated photo released by the family of crew member Pablo Costas, Spanish trawler Alakrana is seen at sea in an unknown location.

South African and Israeli army instructors, hired by the ruling Guinea junta, are training pro-junta recruits in a camp in Forecariah, 100km south of Conakry, witnesses said yesterday.

About 1 000 foreign nationals have evacuated informal settlements at De Doorns in the Western Cape following a flare-up of xenophobia, police said on Tuesday.

Two Rwandan Hutu rebel leaders were arrested by Germany, charged with directing war crimes.

Mozambique's main opposition party says the ruling party stuffed ballot boxes and expelled opposition monitors from polling stations to help it win the country's Oct.

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has defended land reforms blamed for plunging his people into starvation and lashed out at the West for imposing "inhuman sanctions." Addressing a U.N. food summit Tuesday, Mugabe said the policy under which thousands of white-owned commercial farms were seized in 2000 was a quest for "equity and justice." He blamed ...

The recruits assembled by moonlight at a watering hole. Hundreds of boys and young Kenyan men were herded onto trucks, which were covered with heavy canvas, and driven through the night.