Gordon Brown has used his first major speech since leaving office to say the future growth of the world economy is reliant upon the development of Africa.

A Dutch court has fined the multinational oil trading company Trafigura of one million euros for illegally dumping highly toxic wastes in Ivory Coast in West Africa.

Twenty years after announcing Nelson Mandela's release from prison, former South African president FW de Klerk will on Tuesday commemorate the speech that began dismantling the apartheid regime.

Men in kaftans sit at tables, selling tomatoes and onions in front of small, crowded homes. On the street, young men on motorbikes zip past in broiling heat, searching for people willing to pay for a ride. Buses and trucks rumble through town without stopping.