More than 50 people were killed and 20 injured in Sudan’s worst floods in living memory which have partially or completely destroyed 18,000 homes, the head of civil defence said on Thursday.

At least six children were reported killed in mortar attacks close to where scores of dignitaries were holding a long-awaited peace conference in the Somali capital Thursday.

Iranian President Mamoud Ahmadinejad mocked Israel and called for Lebanese unity during meetings in Damascus Thursday with his Syrian counterpart Bashar Assad and Hizbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.