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Mugabe faces questions from white farmers

Head of farmers’ union demands to know why President has not paid compensation and is denying white Zimbabweans land rights

Libya in from cold as Brown asks Gaddafi for help

Prime Minister talked to Libyan leader for 40 minutes at G8 summit and asked for his intervention in child abduction case

$15 billion pledge to help developing countries

In a radical aid shift, international leaders agree to offer long-term farming investment to help Africa to feed itself

Obama visit to Ghana is pointed snub to Kenya

US President has made it clear that personal links to Kenya count for little compared with rewarding good governance

Britain to pay for new prison in Nigeria

Hundreds of Nigerians in jail in England and Wales w ill be transferred to their home country to serve out their sentence

Builders' strike threatens World Cup plans

Thousands downed tools in "the mother of all strikes" after court rules in favour of union demanding 13% pay rise

Gadaffi rocked by talk of affair with African queen

Two editors of a Ugandan daily newspaper are being prosecuted for alleging relationship with Best Kemigisa

Sole survivor of plane crash tells of rescue

Bahia Bakari lived through Yemenia Airways flight that crashed with 153 people on board as it approached Comoros Islands

Van Hoogstraten beats porn and currency case

Zimbabwe magistrate dismisses pornography and illegal currency dealing charges against controversial British tycoon

Indian Ocean crash survivor told of mother's death

News broken to Bahia Bakari, the only person to survive plane crash, out of 153 passengers and crew, after she returns home

Crash survivor tells of rescue from Indian Ocean

Paris schoolgirl Bahia Bakari, the only person left alive from Tuesday's disaster, floated for hours until she was rescued

Bakari is one of only 13 sole survivors

The 13-year-old girl rescued from the Indian Ocean after the Comoros Islands crash owes her life to luck and common sense

MP's arrest halts exposure of diamond massacre

A Zimbabwean MP who was about to show an international delegation the site of a mass grave of diamond diggers has been arrested

The Outeniqua Choo-Tjoe's final journey

Africa's last steam train has reached the end of the line

Somali civilians to flee militant advances

Almost 170,000 people have left Mogadishu in six weeks of fighting that has raised brutality to new levels

Russia to restore presence in Africa

Russian leader starts four-nation tour to re-establish Soviet-era influence in the continent and compete for its resources

Mau Mau veterans take legal battle to Brown

Five elderly Kenyans will ask the Prime Minister to investigate the “lost decade” of torture under British colonial rule

Mau Mau claim will be fought every step of the wayn

Apology would imply admission of torture and Britain will argue legal responsibility passed to Kenya on independence

Analysis: Britain has moral duty to allow case

Weight of archival evidence and survivor testimony of systematic brutality against Kenyans warrants an official apology

Mau Mau rebel: my years of torture

Former member of Kenyan freedom movement remembers being whipped and beaten in detention camps run by the British