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BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo - The opposition in Republic of Congo has called for a boycott of Sunday's presidential vote and made accusations of fictitious voting lists in the Central African nation overshadowed by its much larger neighbour, Congo.

President Barack Obama is headed home after a brief but whirlwind visit to Ghana.

President Robert Mugabe on Saturday criticized Western nations for setting conditions for aid to his devastated country and questioned whether a government he formed with rivals was truly united.

Soldiers from the African Union peace keeping force carry the body of a dead man who the Somalia government said was a foreigner fighter fighting alongside the Islamist insurgents Saturday July 11, 2009.

Civilians are bearing the brunt of attempts to dismantle armed groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo , with the rebels carrying out vicious reprisals and some Government soldiers committing serious human rights abuses, the senior United Nations official to the country told the Security Council Friday.

The Government has announced funding of over 1.5m to help authorities in Tanzania reduce the number of babies and mothers who die during and immediately after childbirth.

Muammar Gaddafi at the G8 today: 'He resembled an ageing rock legend.' Photograph: Vincenzo Pinto/AFP/Getty Images In his first face to face meeting with Gordon Brown , Muammar Gaddafi today demanded the return of the convicted Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi. The Libyan leader was told by the prime minister that it was a matter ...

Somali Islamist insurgent fighters beheaded seven people accused of abandoning their religion and of espionage, residents said Friday, in the largest mass execution since the Islamists were chased from power two and a half years ago.

The U.N. human rights chief says Somalia's insurgents and government troops are committing torture and other atrocities that might be war crimes.

He was throwing in a televised news conference from Italy for good measure. Obama, his wife and daughters were to meet Pope Benedict XVI shortly before leaving Italy late Friday for Ghana.

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Sweden will extradite a man accused of taking part in mass slaughter in Rwanda to his homeland, marking the first time an EU nation has sent back a suspect to face charges in the 1994 genocide, officials said Thursday.

Caption: Annan said he handed the names of the suspects in the post election violence to the ICC prosecutor in The Hague.

CAIRO - Egyptian authorities arrested 25 militants with links to al-Qaida on suspicion of plotting attacks on oil pipelines and ships in the Suez Canal, the Interior Ministry said in a statement on Thursday.

A charity worker from Northern Ireland has been seriously injured in a bus crash in Kenya.

JOHANNESBURG: A top Indian diplomat here has dismissed suggestions in sections of the Indian media that the death of an Indian IT worker in an armed robbery had a racial motive.

The Group of Five major developing nations said here on Wednesday that the successful conclusion of the Doha Round trade talks would be conducive to restore market confidence, urging to address legitimate aspirations of the developing countries.

President Barack Obama has told African leaders it is time to stop blaming colonialism and "Western oppression" for the continent's manifold problems.

Thirteen bodies, a plane seat and a piece of metal stamped "Airbus" washed ashore in Tanzania and French investigators were trying to determine Wednesday if they were linked to the Yemenia Airways plane crash hundreds of miles away.

Zimbabwe will look into the possibility of adopting the rand as an alternative to the country's existing multiple currency regime, Zimbabwe Industry and Commerce Minister Welshman Ncube said on Tuesday.