Robert Mugabe’s “illegitimate” regime must be rejected by the world, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown urged today as votes were counted in Zimbabwe’s “sham” election.

Somalia’s president agreed today to a national reconciliation conference in a bid to end 16 years of anarchy in the war-ravaged country, paving the way for the deployment of African peacekeepers.

Nigerian authorities prevented dozens of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s heavily armed bodyguards from entering the country with weapons in a dispute that lasted hours and saw Gaddafi storm away from the airport on foot.