Reuters - Gunmen in Nigeria released eight foreign oil workers seized from a vessel off the Niger Delta on Saturday but eight other people abducted in separate incidents were still being held, security officials said.

AFP - Eight foreign workers seized overnight near a major oil export terminal in southern Nigeria were released late Saturday, an army spokesman said.

AFP - South African President Thabo Mbeki said Saturday that Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir must not be prosecuted for war crimes, for fear of upsetting the peace process in Darfur.

AFP - Jacques Kallis gave South Africa an injury scare before helping the Proteas continue to pulverise Bangladesh A in their tour match in Worcester on Saturday.

AFP - Negotiations in South Africa between Zimbabwe's ruling party and the opposition were making progress Saturday, mediators said.

AFP - South African Deputy Trade Minister Rob Davies on Saturday said that the country could not accept a draft document tabled on a global trade pact in its current form.

AFP - Wayne Rooney showed he has heeded the advice of Brazilian great Pele by rounding off Manchester United's tour of South Africa with a dazzling performance in a 4-0 win against Kaizer Chiefs at Loftus Versfeld on Saturday.

AFP - Willi Lemke, a United Nations' special representative for sports and development, on Saturday pledged his full support to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

AFP - Bedouins on Saturday opened fire on a passenger bus in Egypt's Sinai peninsula wounding two people, including an infant, a security official said.

AFP - The UN special envoy for Somalia on Friday sounded the alarm about rampant illegal fishing and the dumping of toxic waste off the coast of the lawless African nation.

Reuters - Chadian rebels have freed a U.S. missionary after holding him hostage for more than nine months in the remote north of the central African country, his U.S. evangelical organization said on Friday.

AFP - An advisor to President Omar al-Beshir threatened Friday that peacekeepers could be expelled from Darfur if the Sudanese leader is indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court.

AFP - Nigeria is fully committed to an agreement to hand over to Cameroon next month the disputed and potentially oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula, Nigeria's presidency said in a statement Friday.

AFP - Opener JP Duminy smashed 166 to help South Africa to 397-3 on the opening day of their three-day tour match against Bangladesh A at Worcester on Friday.

AP - Power-sharing talks between Zimbabwe's rival political parties were proceeding well Friday, a South African official said, although violence continued and hundreds of opposition supporters remained jailed.

Reuters - The United States expanded sanctions against President Robert Mugabe's government on Friday, increasing pressure on the Zimbabwean leader as his party discusses a power-sharing deal with the opposition.

Reuters - A Darfur rebel faction that has a pact with Sudan's government accused the army on Friday of bombing a village this week even while President Omar Hassan al-Bashir was in the region making a call for peace.