1. Kenya evicts Mau forest residents

Southwestern Kenya provides water for some 10 million Kenyans, but illegal settlement and deforestation have destroyed at least 25 per cent of the region’s vegetation over the last 20 years.

21/11/2009

2. Karzai sworn in as Afghan president

Hamid Karzai has been sworn in for a second five-year term as Afghanistan's president, pledging to tackle the "dangerous issue" of corruption.

19/11/2009

3. Kosovo PM claims election win

Hashim Thaci, Kosovo's prime minister, has claimed that his party has won the territory's first independent elections.

16/11/2009

4. Kosovo's local elections under way

Voting is under way in the first election in Kosovo since the ethnic Albanian majority state declared independence.

15/11/2009

5. Khadr to face US military tribunal

A Canadian held at the Guantanamo Bay prison who is accused of killing a US soldier in Afghanistan will face a military commission.

14/11/2009

6. Karzai hits back against critics

Afghanistan's president has come out fighting against calls by the US to crack down on corruption, arguing that his government is not solely to blame and saying that the West is in his country only for its own ends.

10/11/2009

7. Koreas in naval border clash

North and South Korea have blamed each other's armed forces for triggering a brief naval clash along their disputed western sea border.

10/11/2009

8. Karzai seeks Muslim trade relations

Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, has appealed for closer trade ties with fellow Muslim countries to help Afghanistan break its cycle of conflict.

10/11/2009

9. Kabul rejects 'foreign criticism'

The Afghan government has rejected foreign criticisms of Hamid Karzai, with the re-elected president saying that they "violated national sovereignty".

07/11/2009

10. Karzai urged to fight corruption

The US's senior military officer has called on Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan's re-elected president, to crack down on what he called the high level of corruption in the country's government.

05/11/2009

11. Karzai vows 'inclusive' government

Hamid Karzai, who won re-election as Afghan president after his rival withdrew from a runoff vote, has vowed that his government will represent all his countrymen.

03/11/2009

12. Karadzic breaks tribunal boycott

Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader, has made his first appearance before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) that is hearing genocide charges against him.

03/11/2009

13. Karzai declared Afghan poll winner

Hamid Karzai, the incumbent president, has been declared the winner of Afghanistan's presidential election.

02/11/2009

14. Karzai rival pulls out of runoff

The challenger to Afghanistan's president in the forthcoming presidential election runoff has said he will not stand as a candidate.

01/11/2009

15. Karzai brother 'on CIA payroll'

The brother of Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, has been receiving regular payments from the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), The New York Times has reported.

28/10/2009