Johannesburg - Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has refused an offer from Swaziland's king to fly him to a regional summit aimed at breaking an impasse in power-sharing talks, an opposition official said on Monday.
Washington - Former secretary of state and US military leader Colin Powell would serve as an advisor to a Barack Obama administration, the Democratic presidential candidate said on Monday. "He will have a role as one of my advisers," Obama told NBC in an interviewed aired Monday. "He's already served in that function, even before he endorsed me."
Long-distance truck drivers have protested at Malaba border post, against the poor state of the custom’s parking yard, bringing trade between Uganda and Kenya to a standstill.
Nine Chinese oil workers have been kidnapped in Sudan, a Chinese diplomat in the capital, Khartoum, has said. The men, and their two Sudanese drivers, were abducted in the southern Kordofan state on Saturday afternoon.
Washington - Former secretary of state and military General Colin Powell on Sunday endorsed Democrat Barack Obama's White House bid, in a stinging rebuff to Republican candidate John McCain.