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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.

Zimbabwe?s inflation rate, already one of the highest in world history, rose from an annual rate of 11 million percent in June to 231 million percent in July.

The Somali pirates who hijacked an arms-laden Ukrainian freighter nearly two weeks ago may soon be getting their ransom.

A well-known stalwart of the governing African National Congress took steps to break with the party and start another, arguing that the A.N.C. had turned its back on democracy.

More than 35 young women wearing tight trousers were arrested in South Sudan for disturbing the peace, senior police officials said.

A mysterious disease that causes internal bleeding killed three people, prompting health officials to take precautions against any further contagion.

Jerome R. Corsi, the conservative author of ?The Obama Nation,? was being held for trying to work in Kenya without a valid work permit, according to media reports.

Among the 10 best-governed countries in sub-Saharan Africa are Mauritius, Seychelles and Cape Verde, according to a newly released index.