LUANDA, August 6, 2008 (AFP) - Angola's main opposition on Wednesday received backing from a party seen as popular among young voters ahead of the country's first elections since the end of a 27-year civil war.

WARSAW, August 5, 2008 (AFP) - A Polish daily on Tuesday backtracked on a report the previous day that Belarussian opposition leaders had made a joint appeal to President Alexander Lukashenko to sit down for talks.

'In reality there wasn't a joint appeal,' said Andrzej Talaga, head of the international desk at the newspaper Dziennik.

KINSHASA, August 4, 2008 (AFP) - Police have arrested the leader of a small opposition party in the Democratic Republic of Congo and charged him with threatening state security, a rights group said Monday.

WARSAW, August 4, 2008 (AFP) - Belarussian opposition leaders Monday urged authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko to negotiate with them, saying it was the only way to save their country from Russia.

YEREVAN, August 1, 2008 (AFP) - Several thousand opposition supporters rallied Friday in the Armenian capital Yerevan demanding President Serzh Sarkisian's removal and early elections.

Up to 5,000 protesters were seen in the centre of Yerevan by an AFP reporter.

DAKAR, July 31, 2008 (AFP) - Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said Thursday that a two-week deadline set for power-sharing talks between President Robert Mugabe's ruling ZANU-PF and Tsvangirai's MDC is flexible.

DAKAR, July 31, 2008 (AFP) - Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai arrived in Senegal Thursday for talks with Senegalese president Abdoullaye Wade ahead of power-sharing talks between the ruling ZANU-PF and Tsvangirai's MDC.

'Mister Tsvangirai (..) arrived very early on Thursday to visit his excellency Adoullaye Wade,' the Senegalese foreign ministry said in a statement.

LONDON, July 31, 2008 (AFP) - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe should be allowed an 'honourable exit' from power, and a transitional government should last no more than two years, his rival Morgan Tsvangirai has told British television.

JOHANNESBURG, July 28, 2008 (AFP) - Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai flew to South Africa on Monday amid claims by his party that talks on ending the country's political crisis had run into trouble.

Although Tsvangirai's spokesman said the visit was private, a source in his office said he had come to consult with his team of negotiators.

JOHANNESBURG, July 28, 2008 (AFP) - Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai flew to South Africa on Monday where talks aimed at ending the country's political crisis are taking place, his chief spokesman said.

'We arrived this afternoon,' George Sibotshiwe told AFP.

Asked about the purpose of the visit, Sibotshiwe said: 'We are here for private business.'