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A CSIRO report has warned climate change will threaten the region's economy and security unless governments and aid agencies start preparing for its impacts.
The two-part CSIRO report was commissioned by a new coalition of aid, church and development groups.
It warns that a two degrees Celsius increase in temperature by 2030 will have a devastating impact in northern Pakistan, India and western China.
South African Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu has used his 75th birthday to warn that the widening gap between rich and poor is turning South Africa into a powder keg that may explode into civil unrest.
Somalia's powerful Islamist movement ordered the partial closure of the border with neighbouring Ethiopia, accusing Ethiopian troops of invading, mining and shelling Somali territory.
Desmond Tutu, the former archbishop of Cape Town who became the conscience of South Africa during apartheid, will celebrate his 75th birthday surrounded by the country's new elite.
Sudan's ambassador to the United Nations, Abdul Haleem, says he stands by a letter from his office which warns nations against contributing to a UN peacekeeping force in Darfur.
Sudan has backed down from a warning to dozens of countries not to pledge troops to a UN force for Darfur, according to the US.
Thieves armed with assault rifles have robbed an Australian family at gun-point on a safari in Kenya, in the latest in a series of attacks on foreign tourists in the east African nation.
Nigerian militants have accused troops of razing a village in the oil-producing Niger Delta and threatened reprisals.
Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo will attend a West African summit to discuss how to govern the war-divided country until long-delayed elections can be held, a spokesman says.
Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir has given his approval for the United Nations to give logistical support to an overstretched African Union mission in Darfur, after rejecting a UN peacekeeping force for the war-ravaged western region.
Royal Dutch Shell says all its contractors who were kidnapped in Nigeria this week have been freed by their captors.
Twenty-five people have been kidnapped and another five have been killed in a massive raid on a convoy of oil barges in Nigeria.
Animal rights groups are disappointed the Federal Government has signed an agreement on animal exports with Egypt.
A leading aid organisation has warned that millions of Africans are at risk of starving due to misspent emergency assistance by Western governments.
About 20 Nigerians working for a contractor to Royal Dutch Shell have been abducted during an attack on a convoy of boats supplying oilfields, Shell sources say.
Australia and Egypt have agreed to new animal welfare arrangements that could allow the resumption of livestock exports within weeks.
Italian police say they have smashed an Algerian Islamic fundamentalist cell that has given logistical support to suspected militants in Algeria.
Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa has appealed for calm after opposition Patriotic Front supporters rioted in protest at preliminary results showing their leader, Michael Sata, was heading for defeat.
Flood water from a burst reservoir dam in northern Nigeria has made 1,000 families homeless, but about 40 people earlier feared dead have been found alive. | 