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August 13, 2014 —  Parliament in Mozambique has approved a law which grants amnesty to opposition party Renamo's leader, Afonso Dhlakama, and effectively allows him to leave his bush hideaway Afonso Dhlakama. Photo: Reuters The amnesty is part of a peace deal between Renamo and the ruling party, Frelimo, who having been in a civil conflict from 1975 until 1992. This means that Dhlakama will  not be arrested  for the attacks carried out by his followers over the last year. The law also applies to his followers. The violence raised fears over stability in the southern African nation which is developing major coal and offshore gas deposits. Dhlakama, whose former rebel movement has been repeatedly defeated by Frelimo in Mozambique elections since the end of the war, has lived in a bush base in central Sofala province for more than a year to escape what he says is government persecution. He is now expected to travel to the capital Maputo to sign ...

More than 100 US marines and special forces landed on Mount Sinjar in Iraq on Wednesday to organise an escape route for 30,000 Yazidi civilians threatened by Islamic extremists and worn down by hunger and thirst.  The force flew in on V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft that can land vertically. They joined a small number of American special forces soldiers who have been on the mountain for some days, assessing the military and humanitarian situation and guiding US air strikes against Islamic State (Isis) fighters encircling the mountain. A handful of British SAS soldiers are also in the area to “gather intelligence” a British official said. Fleeing Yazidis have reported seeing small teams of American soldiers high on the northern flank. “We weren’t allowed to go near them,” said a man from Sinjar who was airlifted from the former base. “They were being guarded by the Kurds.” The US ran a military and intelligence base on a now disused airfield at the top of Mount Sinjar for m...

player  reading the main story The accident left one carriage hanging over the edge of the ravine, while another plunged down before before lodging behind a tree. Eleven people are reported to have been injured and taken to nearby hospitals by helicopter, but there appear to have been no fatalities The landslide happened after heavy rain in eastern Switzerland overnight. Five of the injuries were classed as serious The accident comes amid unusually bad weather for the month of August, normally a popular time for tourists Five people were seriously injured and another six sustained slight injuries, said Graubuenden police spokeswoman Anita Senti. A passenger who was on the train told the Swiss newspaper 20Minuten of  his experience  when the train made an emergency stop. "We all rushed to the back of the carriage to put all of our weight there so that it wouldn't tip into the abyss," he said. There were reportedly 200 people on the train when the accide...

Eduardo Campos, leader of Brazil's Socialist Party, was energetic and hugely popular in his native north-east The Brazilian presidential candidate Eduardo Campos, 49, has died in a plane crash, party members and local officials say. The plane carrying Mr Campos came down in bad weather in a residential area of the port city of Santos, in Sao Paulo state. Local reports say four other passengers and the two pilots were also killed. President Dilma Rousseff has declared three days of national mourning and cancelled campaign events. "The whole of Brazil is in mourning," Ms Rousseff said in a statement. "We lost a great Brazilian today, Eduardo Campos. We lost a great comrade," she added, calling her rival a "great political leader". 'No words' Ms Rousseff's Vice President, Michel Temer, also expressed his regret over the death of Mr Campos, who had been running third in the polls for October's election. He said there were...