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In today's podcast: the Southern African Development Community calls for an urgent full-scale summit on the Zimbabwe crisis; the African Union says it will hold a summit on the continent's response...
Egypt's ruling National Democratic Party swept the elections for four vacant parliament seats, state media said on Monday, in polls the opposition said were marred by detentions of its supporters...
Afghan police have killed 25 Taliban fighters including an insurgent commander in a clash in the south of the country, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday.
The militants were killed in Nadi Ali...
A suicide bomber killed more than 80 people at a picnic spot in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar on Sunday in the most deadly attack since the Taliban were ousted in 2001, the government...
A bomb tore through an election campaign convoy in Pakistan on Wednesday killing two people and the United States said it was concerned about intensifying violence in the run-up to the February 18...
Human Rights Watch criticised Egypt on Wednesday for eight arrests prompted by one man's statement that he was HIV-positive, and said the detentions embodied "both ignorance and...