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46 die when boat capsizes off Guinea
Mar 30 2007 5:11PM (CT)
CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) - A motorized wooden boat crowded with passengers and merchandise capsized offshore from this West African nation's capital, drowning at least 46 people and possibly dozens more, Guinean officials and survivors said Friday.
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Ruling party backs Mugabe for 2008 vote
Mar 30 2007 4:35PM (CT)
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - Zimbabwe's ruling party endorsed incumbent Robert Mugabe on Friday as its candidate for next year's presidential elections, handing the 83-year-old leader his second political victory in two days in the face of international criticism over a brutal clampdown of the opposition.
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Ruling party backs Mugabe for 2008 vote
Mar 30 2007 4:35PM (CT)
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - Zimbabwe's ruling party endorsed incumbent Robert Mugabe on Friday as its candidate for next year's presidential elections, handing the 83-year-old leader his second political victory in two days in the face of international criticism over a brutal clampdown of the opposition.
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Heavy fighting engulfs Mogadishu
Mar 30 2007 2:23PM (CT)
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Insurgents shot an Ethiopian helicopter gunship out of the sky and mortar shells slammed into a hospital Friday during the heaviest fighting in the Somali capital since the early 1990s, leaving corpses in the streets and wounding hundreds of civilians.
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UN council stops short of blaming Sudan
Mar 30 2007 6:49AM (CT)
GENEVA (AP) - The U.N. Human Rights Council expressed concern over the situation in Darfur on Friday, but stopped short of criticizing Sudan's government.
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Knife-wielding hijacker held in Sudan
Mar 30 2007 4:51AM (CT)
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - Authorities arrested a man armed with a knife who hijacked a Sudan Airways plane Friday while flying from Libya to Sudan, police said.
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Report: Uganda army killed kids in raid
Mar 30 2007 12:29AM (CT)
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Ugandan army raids in the country's troubled northeast killed up to 66 children who were shot or crushed by armored vehicles and stampeding animals, aid workers said Friday, citing witnesses.
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