International

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood said on Monday its candidate won the country’s first free presidential election, but a sweeping legal maneuver overnight by Cairo’s military rulers made clear the generals planned to keep control for now.

West African military chiefs have secured troop commitments from three nations for their planned Mali intervention force, despite the mission still lacking an invitation from authorities in Bamako and backing from the United Nations.

For a South African telecommunications company, it represented a unique chance to seize what its chief executive called “one of the most significant ‘virgin’ mobile opportunities in the world.”

The United Nations’ human rights chief has said that government shelling of Syrian cities may amount to war crimes and should cease immediately.

The leader of the party that narrowly won Greece’s election has begun urgent talks to form a coalition, saying he wants to forge a “national consensus”.

The effects of Eurozone crisis is now taking toll on fishing communities making a living from Lake Victoria, the world’s second largest fresh water lake shared by Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.