DAR ES SALAAM - Fresh protests have broken out in Tanzania's major cities, a day after elections marred by clashes between opposition supporters and the police. Gunfire was heard in the northern city of Mwanza, while clashes broke out in the capital Dodoma and the main city Dar es Salaam, which is under heavy security with major roads blocked.
PARIS - Nicolas Sarkozy has become the first French ex-president to go to jail, as he starts a five-year sentence for conspiring to fund his election campaign with money from late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
South Africa's ambassador to France, Nathi Mthethwa, has been found dead near the four-star Hyatt Regency Hotel in Paris, French officials have told the BBC.
NEW YORK - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says recognition of a Palestinian state is "sheer madness, it's insane and we won't do it", adding that recognition by several other countries like the UK and France is "disgraceful".
Mugabe is often described in binaries: hero or villain, liberator or dictator. Both are true and yet neither is adequate. Because Mugabe was not only a political figure. He was also a psychological case study of something far more unsettling:
History is often unkind to those who build the very prisons they later wish to escape. Whenever the story of Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle is told, few figures loom as large, as complex, or as ultimately frustrated as Dr Edson Jonas Mudadirwa Zvobgo.
Human rights lawyer Doug Coltart was assaulted during the proceedings after a group of suspected ruling party supporters disrupted the event. Witnesses said his phone was snatched and he was beaten, while attackers questioned his nationality.
US President Donald Trump has criticised the United Kingdom and other allies, telling them to secure their own energy supplies rather than rely on Washington.
