The Liechtenstein Foundation for State Governance (LFSG) and the NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency (NEPAD Agency), the technical body of the African Union, signed a comprehensive cooperation agreement for a significant Africa-wide capacity development and reform initiative over the next six years. The ceremony was held at Vaduz Castle.

The US Supreme Court has given Nigerian families the green light to sue the drug company Pfizer over the use of a new antibiotic on their children. It rejected the firm's appeal against a ruling allowing lawsuits to proceed.

The families say Pfizer did not get their proper consent to test the antibiotic Trovan on 200 sick children during a meningitis outbreak in 1996. Eleven children died and others were blinded, paralyzed or brain-damaged. Pfizer denies all allegations.

The company says the children who took the oral drug had a better survival rate than those who did not.

The meningitis epidemic killed 12,000 children in Nigeria over six months.

Is Press Freedom under attack in Rwanda?

Despite the fact that the government of Paul Kagame in Rwanda has denied assertions by international journalists' rights groups that the government may have been involved in the shooting death of a journalist, Human Rights Watch thinks differently (HRW). Insecurity and political repression are increasing in advance of Rwanda's August 2010 presidential elections, HRW warned.

South African police said today they had arrested four people for the shooting of an exiled Rwandan army general on Saturday. Police spokesman Govind Samy would not give the nationality of those arrested, saying: "We are still busy with the investigation." But sources close to the investigation said that at least one of those arrested was a Rwanses national who served in the army with the victim.