Burundi vice-president dismissed
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Burundi's Vice-President, Alphonse-Marie Kadege, is sacked, a day after he voices concerns on a key poll.
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The foreign minister resigned Monday as a growing scandal linking the political establishment and far-right paramilitaries claimed its first member of President Alvaro Uribe's Cabinet.
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YANGON : Myanmar&#39;s military regime reshuffled its cabinet, removing three long-serving members including the foreign minister, according to state-run media.
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Burundi's vice-president is sacked for insubordination, amid serious divisions in the ruling party.
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The Kenyan anti-corruption supremo steps down just days after the government was accused of "massive looting".
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A judge throws out  the corruption case of former South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma.
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The President of Mexico, Vicente Fox, has dismissed the chief of police in Mexico City for failing to prevent the lynching of two officers last month.
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The prime minister dismissed a Sunni official who called for an international inquiry into the alleged rape of a Sunni woman by Iraqi forces.
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A court ruled Friday that the vice president's suspension from Nigeria's dominant political party was unconstitutional, potentially clearing the way for him to run for president on the party's ticket in the upcoming election.
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Interior Minister Belisario Velasco, one of the most powerful officials in President Michelle Bachelet's government, resigned Thursday as part of an expected Cabinet shake-up.
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A Nigerian court has voided a report of the country's anti-graft agency which indicted Vice President Atiku Abubakar and a business associate of corruption.
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Burundi authorities have ordered a private radio station not to broadcast for 48 hours after it was found guilty of airing programs that threaten the country's fragile peace process, officials said on Saturday.
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The prime minister of the Solomon Islands, Manasseh Sogavare, is ousted in a no-confidence vote.
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Jakarta, Indonesia -- The ruling military junta in Burma has fired Prime Minister Khin Nyunt, a man whom foreign officials had seen as the best hope for returning the country to democracy.
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JOHANNESBURG -- A South African judge dismissed corruption charges yesterday against the nation's controversial former deputy president, Jacob Zuma. The decision was another victory in a remarkable political comeback by Zuma that his supporters hope will lead him to the presidency in 2009.
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SUVA -- Fiji's military leader said today he had seized control of the country from the elected government and dismissed the prime minister. Commodore Frank Bainimarama told a news conference that he had briefly assumed the powers of the president and was using them to dismiss Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase. He said he would soon surrender presidential powers back to ...
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Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) -- China&#39;s State Council removed Wang Yi from the post of vice foreign minister, replacing him with Wu Dawei, the state-run Xinhua news agency said.