Copyright © 2008 Yahoo! Philippines Pte. Ltd. (Co. Reg. No. 199700735D). All Rights Reserved. http://beta.ph.news.yahoo.com/world-africa.html en-en Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:23:00 +0800 5 http://beta.ph.news.yahoo.com/world-africa.html http://l.yimg.com/hb/i/ph/mastheads/210x47_ph_news.gif 30 140 http://ph.news.yahoo.com/afp/20081011/twl-nobel-peace-4bdc673.html /afp/20081011/r_t_afp_wl_other/twl-nobel-peace-4bdc673 Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:23:00 +0800 The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari, who has spent 30 years helping end conflicts in troublespots ranging from Kosovo to Namibia and Indonesia. AFP http://ph.news.yahoo.com/ap/20081011/twl-af-somalia-piracy-1be00ca.html /ap/20081011/r_t_ap_wl_other/twl-af-somalia-piracy-1be00ca_2 Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:50:00 +0800 The pirates who hijacked an arms-laden Ukrainian tanker off Somalia issued an ultimatum Friday and threatened to destroy the ship if no ransom is paid, a spokesman for the bandits said. AP http://ph.news.yahoo.com/ap/20081011/twl-af-zimbabwe-1be00ca.html /ap/20081011/r_t_ap_wl_other/twl-af-zimbabwe-1be00ca_1 Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:03:00 +0800 Zimbabwe's leaders have agreed that power-sharing talks have broken down over the allocation of Cabinet posts and called Friday for former South African President Thabo Mbeki to mediate an end to the deadlock. AP http://ph.news.yahoo.com/ap/20081011/twl-af-somalia-kidnapping-1be00ca.html /ap/20081011/r_t_ap_wl_other/twl-af-somalia-kidnapping-1be00ca_1 Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:23:00 +0800 Two foreign aid workers appealed for their freedom Friday in the Somali capital, surrounded by armed kidnappers who seized them last month in a restive region of Ethiopia, local media reported. AP http://ph.news.yahoo.com/afp/20081010/twl-zimbabwe-politics-4bdc673.html /afp/20081010/r_t_afp_wl_other/twl-zimbabwe-politics-4bdc673_1 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:58:00 +0800 Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe agreed on Friday to allow in outside mediation in a bid to break a four-week deadlock over cabinet posts in a new unity government with his political rivals. AFP http://ph.news.yahoo.com/ap/20081010/twl-ml-yemen-migrants-missing-1be00ca.html /ap/20081010/r_t_ap_wl_other/twl-ml-yemen-migrants-missing-1be00ca_1 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:27:00 +0800 About 100 migrants from Somalia are missing and feared drowned in the treacherous waters off the coast of Yemen after smugglers forced them overboard, Yemeni officials and the UN refugee agency said on Friday. AP http://ph.news.yahoo.com/ap/20081010/twl-un-un-mystery-disease-1be00ca.html /ap/20081010/r_t_ap_wl_other/twl-un-un-mystery-disease-1be00ca_1 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:24:00 +0800 The U.N. health agency says it is investigating a mystery disease that killed three people in the South African city of Johannesburg. AP http://ph.news.yahoo.com/afp/20081010/twl-sudan-conflict-darfur-4bdc673.html /afp/20081010/r_t_afp_wl_other/twl-sudan-conflict-darfur-4bdc673_1 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:31:00 +0800 The Sudanese army said Friday that 15 people were killed when Darfur rebels attacked a local government convoy with military escort in the far west of the conflict-strewn region. AFP http://ph.news.yahoo.com/afp/20081010/twl-somalia-unrest-piracy-4bdc673.html /afp/20081010/r_t_afp_wl_other/twl-somalia-unrest-piracy-4bdc673_1 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:18:00 +0800 Pirates hijacked a Somali merchant vessel in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Oman, an official said Friday. AFP http://ph.news.yahoo.com/ap/20081010/twl-ml-libya-switzerland-1be00ca.html /ap/20081010/r_t_ap_wl_other/twl-ml-libya-switzerland-1be00ca_1 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:08:00 +0800 Libya said Thursday it has halted oil shipments to Switzerland, three months after the arrest of Moammar Gadhafi's son in Geneva sparked a diplomatic crisis between the two countries. AP