International

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton paid a lightning visit to Malawi to congratulate its new president, one of only two female heads of state in Africa, for pulling her impoverished country back from the economic brink after a political crisis.

A suicide car bomber attacked a military checkpoint in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Damaturu on Sunday, killing six soldiers and two civilians, police said.

Syrian Prime Minister Riyad Hijab has been sacked, state television reported on Monday, and an official source in Amman said he has defected with his family to neighbouring Jordan.

Tanzania is on high alert as the government is investigating two reported cases of suspected Ebola outbreak in the country’s north-western regions near the border with Uganda where an Ebola outbreak has killed at least 16 people.

UN leader Ban Ki-moon on Monday called on the leaders of Sudan and South Sudan to find more "political will" to overcome all their divisions as he welcomed a deal to share their oil wealth.