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Africa needs legislation to compel foreign miners to be honest about their revenues because some maximise profits unethically, says former UN head Kofi Annan.
Africa needs transparent mining strategies that would plough profits back into education and health, says a panel chaired by former UN chief Kofi Annan.
Former UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan to Syria said it is too late for military intervention there and that arming President Bashar Assad's foes will not end the two-year-old crisis.
The world must persuade Syrian President Bashar Assad to see the writing on the wall, says top US diplomat John Kerry, stressing Russia could play a key role in ending the conflict.
Ex-UN chief Kofi Anna says drug smuggling in west Africa has aided extremists in a region where Islamists had taken control of northern Mali and risked destabilising other nations.
A speech by President Bashar Assad calling for peace in Syria on his terms has met rejection by the opposition and internationally, with only his ally Iran backing his stance.
Fighting has erupted in a Damascus suburb and around an army base in northern Syria, say opposition sources, as a truce marking a Muslim holiday crumbled almost before it had begun.
International peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi has warned after meeting President Bashar Assad that the worsening conflict in Syria poses a threat to the region and the world at large.
A Syrian warplane has bombed a building in the northern rebel-held town of Al-Bab killing 18 people, including two children, says a watchdog.
New international peace envoy in the Syrian conflict Lakhdar Brahimi says his mission is "nearly impossible".
The head of the now-defunct UN observer team in Syria, General Babacar Gaye, has left Damascus after the Security Council called time on the troubled mission.
US President Barack Obama has warned Syria of "enormous consequences" if it resorts to chemical weapons, while a reporter has been killed while covering the conflict.
President Bashar Assad has made a rare public appearance for the Muslim holiday of Eid as activists staged protests across Syria to rage against the regime.
Lakhdar Brahimi, a veteran Algerian diplomat, will take over from Kofi Annan as the international envoy on the Syria conflict, the United Nations says.
The United Nations' four-month-old observer mission in Syria will withdraw from the country next week, diplomats and UN officials say.
