Africa

Africa's illicit money sent to Western banks

Sunday, 7 February 2010

Some of the continent's leaders used the US financial system to protect millions of dollars

Zuma apologises for fathering illegitimate child

Sunday, 7 February 2010

South African President's 'rampant libido' provokes fury in country where 5.7 million are HIV-infected

The Big Question: What would a genocide charge mean for Sudan's leader and his country?

Thursday, 4 February 2010

Jacob Zuma criticised over love child report

Tuesday, 2 February 2010

A South African presidential spokesman today called a newspaper story that the country's polygamist leader had fathered a child out of wedlock "a private, personal issue" without confirming or denying the report.

The day I ended apartheid

Tuesday, 2 February 2010

Twenty years ago today, FW de Klerk stunned the world. Ivan Fallon reveals the extraordinary story

Britons kidnapped by pirates plead for deal

Monday, 1 February 2010

Paul and Rachel Chandler made a desperate appeal for the Government to intervene.

Back to Africa: A new Haitian homeland?

Monday, 1 February 2010

If a proposal under consideration by the African Union this week were to bear fruit, Haitians made homeless by the earthquake could start afresh in a new homeland in Africa.

Nigerian rebels end ceasefire and threaten oil attacks

Saturday, 30 January 2010

Nigeria's main militant group called off a three-month-old ceasefire in the Niger Delta on today and threatened to unleash "an all-out assault" on Africa's biggest oil and gas industry.

Nigerian ministers back absent President

Thursday, 28 January 2010

Nigeria's cabinet rallied around ailing President Umaru Yar'Adua yesterday, passing a unanimous resolution that he remains capable of holding office despite a two-month absence for medical treatment.

Ryanair 'may have used Lebanon crash jet in Dublin last year'

Wednesday, 27 January 2010

Michael O'Leary says Ethopiian Airlines disaster 'has nothing to do with us'