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President Robert Mugabe?s efforts to placate his generals by shielding them from prosecution is threatening to derail a power-sharing deal with the political opposition.

Mr. Ndiaye helped found a Senegalese art movement called

Congolese Army tanks pounded rebel-held hilltops and repelled an attack on a military base in the east in the latest round of fighting, which has displaced 150,000 people, the U.N. said.

The African National Congress suspended Mosiuoa Lekota, who resigned as defense minister, for saying that he might join others in forming a new political party.

The E.U. condemned President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe for going ahead with the formation of a new government without the agreement of the opposition.

The move is widely being interpreted as a way for Sudan to improve its image abroad and try to head off the possible genocide prosecution of the country?s president.

While the audacity of a band of Somali pirates who recently hijacked a ship has grabbed the world?s attention, the suffering of millions of Somalis seems to go unnoticed.

Thabo Mbeki, South Africa?s former president, planned to visit Zimbabwe to try to rescue the power-sharing deal.

Robert Mugabe said that his party will retain ministries that control the military and the police in Zimbabwe.

Pirates hijacked a huge tanker off the Horn of Africa, even as world powers deployed military ships to the Somali coast to try to end a two-week standoff aboard another seized ship.