International

Zimbabwe's justice minister has denounced a South African court ruling that would allow prosecutions related to alleged torture under President Robert Mugabe.

A British man accused of links to Somalia’s Islamist militants is to go on trial in Kenya for allegedly plotting a bomb attack.

South Africa’s crime intelligence chief Lieutenant-General Richard Mdluli has been moved from his post pending the outcome of an investigation, it was announced here on Wednesday.

Burundi’s ombudsman, Mohamed Rukara, has uncovered a plot to kill him, his spokesperson has said.

The Action Committee for Renewal (CAR), Togo’s second opposition party, is threatening protests over the new electoral boundaries created through a governmental decision on April 30.

Two powerful blasts in quick succession have killed dozens of people and injured more than 100 others in the Syrian capital Damascus, according to Syrian officials and state media.

The Search and Rescue Agency on Thursday displayed the picture of wreckage of the Sukhoi super jet 100 plane that was broken into many small pieces at the slope of a mountain in Bogor regency near Jakarta, indicating a small possibility of survival for those on board.

Neither the United Nations nor the African Union can impose its will on Sudan, President Omar al-Bashir said on Thursday, after fresh fighting along the border with South Sudan.