At least 400 people were killed on Friday after angry Christian and Muslim mobs protested what they said were rigged local election results.
Soldiers recently wrested control of the streets from armed Christian and Muslim gangs that had roamed the city, in the worst religious violence Nigeria has seen in four years.
The mediator said that the only thing left was planning the transfer of money and handover of the ship, which was captured by Somali pirates two months ago.
A southern African regional court in Namibia ruled that 78 white Zimbabweans could keep their farms, saying the government’s land reallocation policy was racially motivated.
The bureaucratic and legal gears of Europe’s effort to respond to pirate attacks are proving to be not as swift as the hijackers, as Somali pirates captured another ship.
A British reporter and Spanish photographer were kidnapped on Wednesday in northern Somalia while researching Somalia’s rampant piracy trade.
A harrowing account suggests that the sinking of a Thai fishing trawler in the Gulf of Aden was a case of mistaken identity.
The opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, declared his relationship with the mediator Thabo Mbeki, the recently ousted South African president, irretrievably broken.
A rebel offensive to expel some of the perpetrators of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide prompted more than 3,000 civilians to flee eastern Congo to neighboring Uganda in a single day.
Thabo Mbeki’s government could have prevented the premature deaths of 365,000 people, a new study says.