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Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai of Zimbabwe said on Monday that a car crash that killed his wife on Friday was an accident, news reports said.

Zimbabwe's new prime minister, Morgan Tsvangirai, has been involved in a car accident, his party said Friday.

The president of Guinea-Bissau was assassinated Monday, a day after a powerful explosion killed the head of the west African country's military, the prime minister said. It was not immediately clear how President Joao Bernardo Vieira, 69, died. Prime Minister Carlos Gomes confirmed the death to CNN.

Robert Mugabe marked his 85th birthday yesterday with a sumptuous banquet in Harare at the start of a week of parties which observers say is a further sign of the Zimbabwean president's defiance in the face of growing criticism of his regime.

A bomb exploded in a crowded Cairo market frequented by tourists, wounding at least 14 people, including foreigners, said police and medical sources.

The recent appointment of Michael Sidibe of Mali as the new director of the United Nations Programme on HIV/Aids (UNAids), the main advocacy body in the global fight against HIV, the deadly virus that causes Aids, could mark a significant turning point in the way the organisation handles its mandate in the political and scientific spheres of the deadly disease.

Rescuers combed a crash site in Kenya on Sunday where oil spilled from a truck caught fire and killed around 100 people in one of the east African nation's worst disasters of recent times.

George Obama, the half brother of U.S. President Barack Obama, has been arrested by Kenyan police for possession of marijuana and resisting arrest, police said Saturday.

When TripAdvisor.com released its list of 2008's "Break-out Places" recently, it wasn't surprising to see that it mentioned Wasilla, Alaska (courtesy of Sarah Palin), the French provincial town of Le Val (where Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie holed up last year while awaiting twins) and Beijing.

Ethiopia handed over security duties Tuesday to a Somali force, raising fears that the Horn of Africa country — already fighting an Islamic insurgency and rampant piracy — could collapse into chaos if extremists with alleged al-Qaida links move to seize power.