Zimbabwe police arrest new minister.

Not too long before he was to be sworn in as the nation’s deputy minister of agriculture in the new unity government, Zimbabwe police arrested opposition activist Roy Bennett Friday. Bennett, a White farmer whose farms were taken away from him by President Robert Mugabe’s land reform program, is accused of conspiracy to commit banditry, sabotage and terrorism. He’d actually been living in South Africa for three years and was taken off of a plane headed to that country in a Zimbabwe airport. Bennett is set to appear in court Monday. This isn’t his first run-in with police; he had served time for assaulting the country’s Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa in parliament, reports CNN. Hundreds of members of the Movement of Democratic Change party gathered around the police station where Bennett was held.

Haiti to get more aid from an international organization.

Haiti is set to receive more than $36 million in additional aid from the International Monetary Fund, reports the BBC. The Caribbean nation suffered a treacherous 2008, with four devastating back-to-back hurricanes and two school collapses. The organization made the decision to provide more funds after examining how Haiti was doing under its Poverty Reduction and Growth facility. All in all, the nation will get $136.1 million from the IMF.

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