Ivory Coast: Gunfire erupts near presidency

Last Updated: Saturday, April 2, 2011, 17:39

Gunfire erupted in Ivory Coast`s main city this morning just blocks from the presidential palace.

Gunbattle at Tunisian presidential palace

Last Updated: Monday, January 17, 2011, 00:31

Presidential guards loyal to deposed President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali were involved in the shootout.

Rescued Chile miners honoured at Presidential palace

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 26, 2010, 10:14

The 33 miners saved from underground hell in Chile were honoured as heroes on at the Presidential palace.

Attack on Somali presidency kills 14

Last Updated: Sunday, May 23, 2010, 15:40

Somalia`s Shebab rebels attacked the presidential palace in Mogadishu.

Niger soldiers go on state TV to confirm coup

Last Updated: Friday, February 19, 2010, 12:56

Renegade soldiers in armoured vehicles stormed Niger`s presidential palace with a hail of gunfire in broad daylight, kidnapping the country`s strongman President and then appearing on state television to declare they staged a successful coup.

UN headquarters, presidential palace damaged in Haiti earthquake

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 13, 2010, 10:07

The headquarters of the UN peacekeeping Mission in Haiti sustained "serious damage" in Tuesday`s earthquake and a large number of UN personnel in Haiti are unaccounted for, the U.N. peacekeeping chief said late Tuesday.