Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has been invited to an upcoming summit between the European Union and Africa, but Portugal does not want him to attend the summit.

The United Nations Security Council says there should be contingency planning for the possible deployment of a U.N. peacekeeping force in Somalia, despite the U.N. secretary general's warning that such a force would not be viable.

Paleontologists have unveiled a 110-million-year-old dinosaur from Africa. The mouth is powered through a greenery, like a vacuum. The Nigersaurus taqueti was discovered in the Sahara by Paul Sereno, of the University of Chicago and his team in 1997.

Business and political leaders are meeting this week in the South African city of Cape Town to seek ways to boost American investment in Africa. But summit delegates have heard that it is often China, and not America, that is taking the lead.

Security Officials in Guinea-Bissau say police in the country have uncovered a child trafficking network which was preparing to send 52 children to Koranic schools in neighbouring Senegal, security officials in the West African country said.

Ethiopian and Government forces in Somalia's capital Mogadishu are trying to seal off the centre of the city as they search for insurgents. Military roadblocks have been set up around Mogadishu as soldiers carry out door-to-door searches.

A lawyer representing the airplane crew involved in an illegal adoption case in Chad says the three Spanish crew members and Belgian pilot have been released. The four had faced charges of complicity in an alleged attempt by a private humanitarian group to fly more than 100 African children to foster families in France.

A plane carrying French president Nicolas Sarkozy and three French journalists whose release he won in Chad has arrived back in Paris.

Doctors and AIDS activists are warning that an increasing number of simultaneous tuberculosis (TB) and HIV infections has created a deadly co-epidemic that is spreading throughout sub-Saharan Africa.

A group of Europeans detained in eastern Chad for trying to fly 103 African children out of the country will be transferred to the capital N'Djamena for trial, the Supreme Court ruled.

The United Nations say up to 90,000 civilians were displaced in the Somali capital in three days of fighting, as aid groups warned that catastrophe was unfolding in the shattered nation.

The French Government is being drawn into the scandal that has led to nine of its citizens being charged with child kidnapping in Chad. The Government is under to pressure to explain what it knew of the operation to fly 103 African children from Chad to France.