The head of the African Union travelled to Kenya today for crisis talks hoping to end the election rioting that has killed more than 275 people.

A mob torched a church where hundreds had sought refuge, and witnesses said dozens of people – including children – were burned alive or hacked to death with machetes in ethnic violence that followed Kenya’s disputed election.

The African Union today said it would press ahead with its peacekeeping mission to Somalia despite failing to secure the 8,000 troops needed at a key summit of African leaders.

A UN backed court indicted Liberian President Charles Taylor today for war crimes, accusing him of “the greatest responsibility” in a vicious ten year rebel terror campaign in neighbouring Sierra Leone.