AP - On paper — and it"s a paper he has yet to sign or even publicly admit exists — President Robert Mugabe appears to be acknowledging at last that he cannot rule Zimbabwe alone.

AFP - Sudanese armed forces have attacked the only Darfur rebel group to have signed a 2006 peace deal, killing four ex-rebels and threatening to end a two-year alliance, their leader said on Sunday.

AFP - Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir has sacked Minister for Cabinet Affairs Pagan Amum, who is also a top official in the southern former rebel movement, a spokesman said on Sunday.