20110816 Reuters LONDON (Reuters) - Turkey is ramping up shipments of diesel to Libyan rebels, effectively joining Qatar and trader Vitol in fuelling the uprising against leader Muammar Gaddafi.
20110816 Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - The judge presiding over the trial of Hosni Mubarak on Monday ordered TV cameras out of the courtroom until the case concludes, enraging opponents of the deposed president who vowed to challenge the decision with protests in downtown Cairo.
20110816 Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - Liberal political groups and a traditional Islamist party on Monday launched a coalition, "The Egyptian Bloc", to challenge powerful Islamists in a November parliamentary election.
20110816 Reuters LILONGWE (Reuters) - Malawi police killed 19 unarmed citizens and shot 58 others during protests in July, the government's rights body said on Monday, in the first official report on unprecedented rallies against President Bingu wa Mutharika's government.
20110816 Reuters MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - A man was shot dead by Nigerian police on Monday in a failed attempt to bomb police headquarters in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, a day before a report on Islamist sect attacks in the region is submitted to President Goodluck Jonathan.
20110816 Reuters NAIROBI (Reuters) - All sides in Somalia's conflict, including peacekeepers, government troops and Islamist rebels, have carried out war crimes and killed civilians, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Monday.
20110816 Reuters TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisian security forces used tear gas and truncheons on Monday to disperse a crowd of protesters in the capital demanding that the government step down for failing to prosecute supporters of the ousted president.
20110816 Reuters SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Mozambique invites Brazilian soy, corn and cotton growers to plant on its savanna and introduce their farming know-how to sub-Saharan Africa, the head of Mato Grosso state's cotton producers association Ampa said on Monday.
20110816 Reuters MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali pirates have freed a Maltese owned and registered bulk carrier after the payment of a ransom by its owners, the European Union anti-piracy force said on Monday.
20110815 Reuters TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi urged his people early on Monday to "liberate Libya" from NATO and traitors, a day after rebels captured a key town on the road west to Tunisia, severing Tripoli's main supply route.
20110815 Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak returns to court on Monday to face charges of killing protesters, in a hearing that could decide if the head of the ruling military council will take the stand as a witness.
20110815 Reuters RABAT (Reuters) - Morocco's government has proposed that a parliamentary election take place early in November instead of the scheduled date of September next year, a government minister said on Sunday.
20110815 Reuters JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African court will hear this week a case over disputed mineral rights that are behind a spat worth billions of rand and which could shed light on allegations of fraud and corruption in government ranks.
20110815 Reuters DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzania plans to spend 1.2 trillion Tanzanian shillings by the end of next year for emergency power projects aimed at ending chronic energy shortages in east Africa's second-largest economy.
20110815 Reuters ABUJA (Reuters) - Former World Bank managing director Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala will arrive back in Nigeria to be sworn in as finance minister this week, the presidency said on Sunday, a month after the rest of President Goodluck Jonathan's cabinet was announced.
20110815 Reuters (Reuters) - Egypt's military prosecutors on Sunday ordered a prominent woman activist to be tried before a military court on charges of insulting the country's military rulers and incitement to violence, her lawyer said.
20110815 Reuters TIZI OUZOU, Algeria (Reuters) - A suicide bomber attacked a police headquarters in the Algerian city of Tizi Ouzou early on Sunday, injuring 29 people, the official APS news agency reported.
20110814 Reuters NORTH OF BIR SHUAIB, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan rebels advanced north to within 25 km (15 miles) of the coastal city of Zawiyah west of Tripoli on Saturday, after a six-hour battle which pushed the front line to its closest point to the capital since the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi began in February.
20110814 Reuters PORT LOUIS (Reuters) - The prime minister of Mauritius accused his former ally and finance minister on Saturday of treason for quitting the ruling coalition, but said the government stay in power with a slim majority to avert a political crisis in the Indian Ocean island.
20110814 Reuters JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The Youth League of South Africa's ANC apologised to the ruling party on Saturday for meddling in foreign affairs when it called for the overthrow the democratically elected government of neighbouring Botswana.
