20111029 Reuters (Reuters) - The prosecutor for the world's top war crimes court said on Friday informal contact has been made with Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the fugitive son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, in order to arrest him and bring him to trial.
20111029 Reuters (Reuters) - NATO confirmed Friday it would end its Libyan mission next week, seven months after launching air and sea operations that helped bring the overthrow and death of Muammar Gaddafi.
20111029 Reuters (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi's fugitive son Saif al-Islam Gaddafi can expect a warm welcome and even help hiding among the desert communities south of Libya which were long courted by his father.
20111029 Reuters (Reuters) - Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, who once vowed to die fighting on Libyan soil, now wants to face international justice instead and avoid any chance of meeting the same grisly end as his father, Libyan officials said.
20111029 Reuters Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam and former intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi propose to hand themselves in to the International Criminal Court, a senior official with Libya's National Transitional Council said on Wednesday.
20111027 Reuters DUBAI (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi's fugitive son Saif al-Islam wants an aircraft to take him out of Libya's southern desert so he can turn himself in to The Hague war crimes court, a source with Libya's National Transitional Council said on Thursday.
20111027 Reuters MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's al Shabaab rebels vowed on Thursday to fight Kenya after its troops entered the Horn of Africa nation and called on sympathisers to carry out major attacks.
20111027 Reuters MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Kenya has every right to pursue al Shabaab rebels in Somalia, but Somali government troops must be in charge of operations against the Islamist rebels, Somalia's prime minister said.
20111027 Reuters ISIOLO, Kenya (Reuters) - Several people were feared killed in an attack on a vehicle in northeastern Kenya on Thursday, residents and local media said.
20111027 Reuters TUNIS (Reuters) - A Tunisian court has freed former Libyan prime minister Al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi, despite an extradition request from Libyan authorities, his lawyer said on Thursday.
20111027 Reuters JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Police lined the streets of South Africa's commercial capital on Thursday with hundreds of youths set to march to the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and Chamber of Mines demanding big changes to an economy still controlled by the white minority.
20111027 Reuters BLANTYRE (Reuters) - International donors withholding $500 million in aid to Malawi will not lift their embargo until President Bingu wa Mutharika addresses concerns about his political and economic leadership of the southern African nation, a newspaper said on Thursday.
20111027 Reuters KINSHASA (Reuters) - A lack of training and proper anti-riot gear could prevent Democratic Republic of Congo's police from keeping the peace in elections scheduled for next month, the United Nations and others have warned.
20111027 Reuters KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's armed forces launched an attack on rebels in the country's main oil state on Wednesday and seized a rebel military camp, an army spokesman told a state-linked news website.
20111027 Reuters MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A Somali aid worker seized by gunmen along with two Westerners in northern Somalia was being questioned by police about the kidnappings, the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) said on Wednesday.
20111026 Reuters (Reuters) - More democracy is bringing more political Islam in the countries of the Arab Spring, but Islamist statements about sharia or religion in politics are only rough indicators of what the real effect might be.
20111026 Reuters (Reuters) - Tunisia's moderate Islamist party on Tuesday claimed a thumping victory in the country's first election, sending a message to the region that once-banned Islamists are challenging for power after the "Arab Spring."
20111026 Reuters (Reuters) - Tunisian Islamist leader Rachid Ghannouchi is seen by many secularists as a dangerous radical, but for some conservative clerics who see themselves as the benchmark of orthodox Islam -- he is so liberal that they call him an unbeliever.
20111026 Reuters (Reuters) - Rapidly growing megacities in Africa and Asia face the highest risks from rising sea levels, floods and other climate change impacts, says a global survey aimed at guiding city planners and investors.
20111026 Reuters Oct 26 (Reuters) - The following company announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency market moves and political events may affect South African markets on Wednesday.
