In Tunisia, where the government was recently
overthrow
n by people power, the interior ministry has announced the suspension of the former governing party from all political activity. Maddy Savage has the latest.
In the three weeks since President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was ousted, protesters have continued their campaign to get all officials linked to the old regime to step down. Tunisia's interior minister has now announced that offices linked to the RCD will be closed, and that future meetings of the former ruling party will be banned. There's been further unrest in the country since a nationwide night-time curfew was shortened. At least two people were killed on Saturday during a protest in the town of Kef, and there are reports that a man died after he was hit by a tear gas canister during riots in the south of the country.
Reports from southern Sudan say up to 50 people have been killed during three days of internal fighting among troops of the national army. The violence started near the border town of Malakal on Thursday and spread to two other places after soldiers from the south refused to be
disarm
ed and move to the north.
The Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has
appealed to
the United Nations Security Council to
convene
an urgent meeting to stop what he says is Thailand's aggression against his country. Cambodia says an 11th century temple at the heart of a long-running border dispute with Thailand was damaged in a third day of clashes between troops from the two countries. The Cambodian government quoted a military commander as saying a wing of the Preah Vihear temple, a United Nations World Heritage site, had collapsed under Thai artillery fire.