20110923
Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - The Quaker Christian school that UBS trader Kweku Adoboli attended as a teenager made quiet periods of reflection a daily part of student life.

20110923
Reuters
NAROK, Kenya (Reuters) - Kenya will move 200 elephants to the world-renowned Maasai Mara game reserve to protect them from escalating conflict with humans in a wheat growing area of the vast Rift Valley, the head of its wildlife service said on Thursday.

20110923
Reuters
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya's new government said it had tightened its grip on oasis towns which sided with Muammar Gaddafi, but faced a tough fight to take two remaining strongholds loyal to the ousted leader and bolster its credibility.

20110923
Reuters
BREGA, Libya, Sept 23 - Scribbled in blue marker in Arabic on the walls of Brega oil terminal of Brega is a message meant to cheer returning workers: "Gaddafi is gone and the place has been checked."

20110923
Reuters
PORT LOUIS (Reuters) - Mauritius authorities arrested a former finance minister, who is also the president's son, on Thursday over corruption charges, a move which may assuage public discontent over graft allegations but may also cause political instability.

20110923
Reuters
LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambian opposition leader Michael Sata was declared the winner of the presidential election on Friday, defeating incumbent Rupiah Banda to head Africa's biggest copper producer after polls marred by violence.

20110923
Xinhua
ANTANANARIVO, 23 septembre (Xinhua) -- Trente deux candidats concourent actuellement au poste du Premier ministre de la Transition, suite à la signature de la feuille de route de sortie de crise le 17 septembre dernier, a rapporté vendredi le journal Midi Madagascar.

20110922
Reuters
LUSAKA (Reuters) - Youths went on the rampage on Thursday in northern Zambia's Copper Belt, a stronghold of opposition leader Michael Sata who is leading the race to become the next president of Africa's biggest copper producer.

20110922
Reuters
TUNIS (Reuters) - Ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's spokesman told Reuters on Thursday that NATO air strikes and shelling of Sirte by interim government forces on Wednesday and Thursday killed 151 people.

20110922
Reuters
SIRTE/NORTH OF BANI WALID, Libya - Libya's interim rulers said they had captured one of Muammar Gaddafi's last strongholds deep in the Sahara desert, finding a secret stock of chemical weapons, and had largely taken control of another.

20110922
Reuters
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has won the support of the new Libyan government, state media reported on Thursday, which had been in doubt after Beijing's frosty reaction to NATO-lead air strikes and attempts by Chinese firms to sell weapons to Muammar Gaddafi.

20110922
Reuters
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Mauritius arrested former Finance Minister Pravind Jugnauth for corruption on Thursday in connection with the purchase of a private hospital, local media said.

20110922
Reuters
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese police used teargas to disperse a protest by hundreds of tribesmen in east Sudan on Thursday after two people died during clashes with police, residents said.

20110922
Reuters
YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Cameroon's fuel subsidy bill may top $600 million by the end of the year, 25 percent over budget, as the central African nation seeks to shelter the public from rising global energy prices in an election year.

20110922
Reuters
CAIRO (Reuters) - Sudan government forces have seized control of a strategic city in Blue Nile state after fighting with rebels allied with South Sudan, a military spokesman said on Wednesday.

20110922
Reuters
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Kenya's finance minister and 2012 presidential hopeful Uhuru Kenyatta and two other top-ranking officials appeared at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday charged over the country's post-election violence in 2007-08.

20110922
Reuters
TRIPOLI/NORTH OF BANI WALID, Libya (Reuters) - Libya's interim rulers said on Wednesday they had captured most of one of Muammar Gaddafi's last strongholds deep in the Sahara desert, a boost to an administration struggling to assert full control over the fractured country.

20110921
Reuters
DUBAI (Reuters) - Libya's central bank has enough money to cover state spending for up to six months and has no urgent need to resort to bridge loans, a finance official said on Wednesday.

20110921
Reuters
LUSAKA (Reuters) - A slow count delayed the first results from Zambia's presidential election which remains too close to call, officials said on Wednesday.

20110921
Reuters
BLANTYRE (Reuters) - Businesses in Malawi's commercial centre Blantyre closed on Wednesday ahead of possible anti-government rallies and rights groups urged people to stay away from work until the weekend to reduce the risk of bloodshed.