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Mugabe, Tsvangirai fail to agree on Zimbabwe cabinet posts

Mugabe, Tsvangirai fail to agree on Zimbabwe cabinet posts

AFP - Wednesday, October 1

HARARE (AFP) - - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and opposition MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai met Tuesday but failed to agree on a share-out of ministries in a power-sharing government, the opposition said. More »

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  • Group calls for free malaria treatment in Africa

    AP - Wednesday, October 1

    JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Making tests and treatment for malaria free dramatically increases the number of people who seek treatment for the disease that kills 1 million people a year, an international medical aid group said Tuesday. More »

  • Ethiopia calls for UN peacekeepers in Somalia

    AP - Tuesday, September 30

    UNITED NATIONS - Ethiopia's foreign minister on Monday called for the U.N. to deploy peacekeepers to neighboring Somalia, where Islamic militants appear to be gaining strength. More »

  • Somali pirates, besieged by foreign warships, demand 20 mln dlrs

    AFP - Monday, September 29

    MOGADISHU, Sept 28, 2008 (AFP) - - Somali pirates who hijacked a Ukrainian freighter carrying military weapons defiantly demanded 20 million dollars in ransom despite being surrounded by three foreign warships on Sunday. More »

  • South Africa's removal of health minister praised

    AP - Saturday, September 27

    CAPE TOWN, South Africa - AIDS activists on Friday celebrated the removal of South Africa's health minister, accused of causing countless unnecessary deaths by promoting nutritional supplements instead of conventional medicine for people with HIV. More »

  • Russia sends ship to Somali coast to fight piracy

    AP - Saturday, September 27

    MOSCOW - Russia's navy dispatched a warship to Somalia's coast, officials said Friday, a day after pirates there carried out their boldest attack yet _ the capture of a Ukrainian vessel manned with Russian and Ukranian crew and loaded with 33 tanks and ammunition bound for Kenya. More »

  • South Africa: ANC youth wing wields its power

    AP - Friday, September 26

    JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Viewed as troublemakers by some and kingmakers by others, the ruling African National Congress' Youth League has been taking much of the credit as its hero, Jacob Zuma, closes in on the nation's presidency. More »

  • Bono says Africa could become breadbasket

    AP - Friday, September 26

    UNITED NATIONS - Bono says Africa has the potential to become a major food producer rather than the epicenter of much of the world's starvation. More »

  • Egypt unearths granite head of Ramses II

    AP - Friday, September 26

    CAIRO, Egypt - Egypt's antiquities council says that archaeologists have unearthed a 3,000-year-old red granite head believed to portray the 19th Dynasty pharaoh Ramses II. More »

  • Anti-apartheid activist becomes SAfrica president

    AP - Friday, September 26

    CAPE TOWN, South Africa - A mild-mannered anti-apartheid activist on Thursday became the third president of South Africa since the end of white rule, vowing to foster unity in a country shaken by a power feud between its past and future leaders. More »