20111126 Reuters (Reuters) - After playing a central role in the revolt that toppled Muammar Gaddafi, members of Libya's long-oppressed Berber minority, known among themselves as Amazigh, thought they had finally won a voice.
20111126 Reuters (Reuters) - The European Union on Friday condemned "excessive violence" in Egypt's handling of protesters seeking an end to military rule and urged Cairo to move quickly toward a civilian government.
20111126 Reuters (Reuters) - Moroccans voted in a parliamentary election on Friday that could yield their most representative government ever after King Mohammed ceded some powers to prevent any tumultuous spillover of Arab Spring uprisings.
20111126 Reuters (Reuters) - Egypt's ruling military council appointed Kamal Ganzouri on Friday as prime minister to form "a national salvation government" to replace the cabinet which resigned this week.
20111126 Reuters (Reuters) - One of the most senior figures in Libya's outgoing government has denounced its leaders as an unelected elite, supported by "money, arms and PR," and warned that 90 percent of Libya is politically voiceless.
20111126 Reuters (Reuters) - The Libyan revolt that ousted Muammar Gaddafi has led to a shake-up of the OPEC member's main industry oil, ushering in a new set of faces, led by newly-appointed oil minister Abdulrahman Ben Yazza.
20111126 Reuters (Reuters) - Several people were killed in religious violence in central Nigeria on Thursday, prompting the military to impose a 24-hour curfew in one region at the border between the West African country's mostly Muslim north and largely Christian south.
20111123 Reuters (Reuters) - Three U.S. students were paraded on Egyptian television on Tuesday after being accused of throwing petrol bombs at police during protests near Cairo's Tahrir Square where demonstrators have been demanding an end to military rule.
20111123 Reuters (Reuters) - A roar of defiance rippled through Cairo's Tahrir Square on Tuesday night as thousands of protesters demanding an end to army rule spurned an offer from Egypt's military leader to let the people decide in a referendum.
20111123 Reuters (Reuters) - A striking image hoisted in Cairo's Tahrir Square when protests against military rule erupted showed an aging, male face; one half was Hosni Mubarak's, the other that of the man now in charge of Egypt - Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi.
20111123 Reuters (Reuters) - Egypt's highest Islamic legal official denied on Tuesday that minority Christians faced sectarian discrimination and said Islamists would win no more than 20 percent of votes in next week's election.
20111123 Reuters (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor said on Tuesday Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the captured son of the former Libyan leader, does not necessarily have to be tried in The Hague if Libya's own justice system is up to the task.
20111123 Reuters (Reuters) - Saif al-Islam Gaddafi was betrayed to his captors by a Libyan nomad who says he was hired to help Muammar Gaddafi's son escape to neighboring Niger on the promise that he would be paid one million euros.
20111123 Reuters (Reuters) - A shootout involving members of one of Libya's heavily armed militias broke out at a Tripoli gated compound used by foreign workers late on Monday, witnesses said, highlighting security risks persisting in post-war Libya.
20111123 Reuters (Reuters) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said it had visited Saif al-Islam Gaddafi in detention in Libya on Tuesday.
20111123 Reuters (Reuters) - A spokesman for Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) confirmed on Tuesday that Osama al-Juwali, the head of the military council in Zintan, was to be defense minister in the new government.
20111123 Reuters (Reuters) - Libya's National Transitional Council has said it wants to try Saif al-Islam, the son of Col. Muammar Gaddafi, in Libya. But there is already a warrant out for his arrest from the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague.
20111123 Reuters (Reuters) - Tunisia's constitutional assembly, elected after a revolution that inspired the "Arab Spring" uprisings, held its opening session on Tuesday, described by officials as an historic step toward democracy.
20111123 Reuters (Reuters) - Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) named a new government Tuesday with a line-up that dropped several seasoned officials in favor of appointees who will soothe rivalries between regional factions.
