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Uganda debates 'death for gay sex' legislation

Legislation would allow for the death sentence for 'aggravated homosexuality' in the impoverished east African country

BBC apologises for Uganda gay execution debate

World Service director admits that the title of the debate "Should homosexuals face execution?" was too stark

Mugabe beatings force Tatchell to quit MP bid

Peter Tachell says 2001 beating by Robert Mugabe’s bodyguards have made him drop his bid to be Green MP for Oxford East

Thousands celebrate South Africa's day of unity

An estimated 100,000 people spent Reconciliation Day on the beach in Durban to mark the public holiday for non-racialism

Footballers do a runner to avoid flight home

The entire Eritrean national team have absconded after a defeat

Mystery of missing Lockerbie bomber

Anger on both sides of the Atlantic as terrorist dying of prostate cancer breaches terms of early release from Scotland

Guinea strongman under guard in hospital

Captain Camara was wounded in an attempted coup in what has proved fortunate timing for a West determined to remove him

Break up of rights meeting exposes Libyan rift

Tensions 'between recalcitrant old guard and President’s son' come to surface with halting of press conference

Kaiane Aldorino wins Miss World title

Miss Gibraltar beats off competition from British rivals and the rest of the world in Johannesburg spectacle

Mugabe announces new Zimbabwe elections

President tells Zanu (PF) conference he expects new poll 'soon' - raising fears he will mount another campaign of terror

Yacht hostages beg for Christmas release

The British couple held by Somali pirates pleaded with the government to get them 'out by Christmas, by whatever means'

Cry the benighted country

Algerians are inheritors of a brutal legacy of ancient and modern hatreds. Is this what post-fundamentalism looks like?

Mugabe says his party is 'eating itself up'

The Zanu (PF) congress, normally a celebration of the party's hold on power, heard its leader berate them for infighting

Gorillas threatened by charcoal trade

Trees are felled to provide fuel for refugees from war, a lucrative trade for the gunmen behind DR Congo's conflicts

Mugabe has finally admitted that the game is up

He may be a cunning and astute politician, but the Zimbabwean president realises his party's power is slowly ebbing away

Drones are latest weapon against Somali piracy

US remote-controlled surveillance aircraft are being launched from the Seychelles to scour the Indian Ocean for pirates

Piracy battle must be won on land, not at sea

Spy drones, warships and helicopter gunships will not put an end to the threat, the problems lie in war-ravaged Somalis itself