African news feeds

Eoin Morgan hits a whirlwind maiden century for Middlesex to help the county side to 311-5 against tourists South Africa.

South Africa's Thabo Mbeki is in Zimbabwe to meet President Robert Mugabe and leaders of a breakaway opposition faction.

HARARE (Reuters) - South African President Thabo Mbeki met Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Saturday to try to help end a political crisis, his spokesman said.

ABAKALIKI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria has deployed troops in the remote southeastern state of Ebonyi after 14 people were killed and scores of buildings destroyed in clashes between rival groups feuding over land, police said on Saturday.

South Africa captain John Smit admits his side were outplayed by New Zealand in their opening Tri-Nations match.

TOYAKO, Japan (Reuters) - Leaders of the Group of Eight rich nations meet this week in northern Japan to grapple with a raft of problems from soaring food and fuel prices to African poverty and global warming amid doubts about how much the annual diplomatic pageant can achieve.

LAGOS (Reuters) - At least 18 people, 12 of them school children, were killed when the bus they were travelling in crashed on a busy highway in the southern Nigerian state of Delta, media reports said on Saturday.

LONDON (Reuters) - A film secretly taken by a Zimbabwe prison guard and smuggled out of the country shows the extent of the rigging that took place for the June 27 presidential run-off vote, the Guardian said on Saturday.

New Zealand open their Tri-Nations campaign with a bruising victory over world champions South Africa.

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, defiant despite growing African condemnation of his re-election, said on Friday the opposition must drop its claim to power and accept that he was the rightful head of state.