The Democratic Republic of Congo’s government today refused rebel leader Laurent Nkunda’s demand for direct talks to solve the crisis in eastern Kivu province, where tens of thousands of desperate refugees were receiving international aid.

The former rebel group that is now Angola’s main opposition party says it accepts defeat in parliamentary elections.

The Government is to donate almost €2m this year to clear unexploded mines in war-torn regions of Afghanistan, Angola and Somalia.

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TEN-MAN Angola restored some pride to a flagging African World Cup campaign by holding Group D leaders Mexico to a goalless draw in Hanover.

Ken Early reports from Luanda on Angolan attitudes to their World Cup foes and former colonial masters Portugal.

THE newly-declassified document (Irish Examiner, August 28) that shows Henry Kissinger telling Argentina’s Foreign Minister “if there are things that have to be done, you should do them quickly”, just before the campaign against dissidents in 1976, should come as no great surprise.

Sixty-seven suspected mercenaries detained in Zimbabwe along with their three-man flight crew face additional charges of plotting to kill the president of the oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, their lawyer said today.

Sixty-four suspected mercenaries detained in Zimbabwe this week were hired to help overthrow the government in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea with the assistance of British, American, and Spanish intelligence agencies, the Zimbabwe government claimed.

A civilian plane slammed into a mountain near the Angolan city of Lubango, killing all but one of 17 people on board.