20120417
AFP
Libyan leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil expressed confidence Monday that Algeria would not shelter anyone who poses a threat to his country, in a reference to Moamer Kadhafi's family members who were granted asylum by Algiers.

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KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Clashes have spread along the border of Sudan and South Sudan, officials said Monday, with Sudanese officials claiming to have seized an area sympathetic to South Sudan.

20120414
AFP
The leaders of Sudan and South Sudan accused each other on Thursday of wanting war, with each denying the other's charge, as Sudanese war planes bombed a bridge in the South after days of fighting in a contested border region.

20120407
AFP
A summit between the presidents of Sudan and South Sudan will go ahead despite its postponement after border clashes between the neighbours, African Union mediator Thabo Mbeki said in Khartoum on Friday.

20120407
AFP
As guns blazed on the border between Sudan and South Sudan in recent days, the air waves and newspapers of both countries fired salvos of their own in an intense propaganda war.

20120403
AFP
Senior officials from Sudan and South Sudan met Monday for the first face-to-face talks since heavy fighting between their armies broke out last week in disputed oil-rich border regions.

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AP
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Mauritania on Saturday arrested Moammar Ghadafi's former intelligence chief, accused of attacking civilians during the uprising in Libya last year and the 1989 bombing of a French airliner. The International Criminal Court, France and Libya all said they want to prosecute Abdullah al-Senoussi.

20120314
AFP
The latest week-long round of talks between Sudan and South Sudan has ended without any deal on the contentious issues of disputed border areas and oil revenue sharing, mediators said Tuesday.

20120314
AFP
An Algerian court sentenced the fugitive head of Al-Qaeda's north African offshoot to death Tuesday for a string of 2007 attacks, including a deadly bombing at the prime minister's office.

20120307
AFP
The UN Security Council on Tuesday demanded that rival Sudan and South Sudan end border hostilities and head off moves to war.

20120307
AFP
Talks between Sudan and South Sudan resumed in the Ethiopian capital Tuesday to resolve a furious oil dispute as tensions remain high between the two nations.

20120227
AFP
Khartoum threatened retaliation on Sunday after accusing breakaway South Sudan of backing a rebel attack inside its territory, adding to tensions which have sparked international concern.

20120226
AFP
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pledged US backing for democratic and economic development in north Africa Saturday as she toured the region that gave birth to the Arab spring.

20120215
AFP
Sudan and South Sudan still remain far apart in negotiations to resolve a furious oil dispute threatening to reignite fighting between the former civil war foes, a minister said Tuesday.

20120215
AFP
Sudanese warplanes dropped several bombs wounding four soldiers in a contested area claimed by South Sudan, breaking a fresh non-aggression pact between the two sides, Juba's army spokesman said Tuesday.

20120215
AFP
A Tunisian court cleared Libyan former prime minister Baghdadi al-Mahmudi on Tuesday on a charge he had crossed illegally into Tunisia as he fled Libya last year, his lawyer said.a

20120214
AFP
Sudan's military has stopped the return of South Sudanese by barge on the White Nile river because of suspicions they are also being used by the South to reinforce troops near the tense border, sources said on Monday.

20120213
AFP
Sudan and breakaway South Sudan on Sunday agreed to cooperate in the transfer of more than 300,000 people to the South, the official SUNA news agency said.

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Sudan on Sunday released three oil tankers held in a dispute with breakaway South Sudan, which has accused Khartoum of theft, the foreign ministry said.