The trial of nine people in Ivory Coast accused of involvement in the dumping of 500 tons of chemical waste around the port of Abidjan has been suspended.
The European Development Commissioner (EDC) has committed to increasing aid for the poor in light of the global financial crisis, rising fuel prices and climate change.
Stock markets have continued to plummet in the United States despite the approval of a US$700 billion financial bailout plan by the House of Representatives last week.
The New York-based human rights organisation, Breakthrough, has launched a campaign to improve the conditions at immigration detention centres in the United States.
US shares have reportedly fallen sharply as investors exercise caution over whether the House of Representatives will back the revised bank rescue plan.
Activists from across Africa have joined hundreds of farmers and trade unionists in Ghana in a protest against the proposed Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union.
The authorities in the Mexican border city of Tijuana have found 16 bodies in a day, in what is believed to be part of a series of drug-related murders.
