20110807 Reuters MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed said on Saturday his military had defeated Islamist rebels battling to overthrow his Western-backed government after the al Shabaab group began withdrawing fighters from the capital Mogadishu.
20110807 Reuters BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan rebels on Saturday said they had launched a push to capture the coastal oil town of Brega, but were advancing slowly because Muammar Gaddafi's forces had sown landmines on the approaches to the town.
20110807 Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood held a public internal election on Saturday for the first time in its history in a display of openness before a parliamentary election in November.
20110807 Reuters UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Sudan's U.N. envoy on Friday vehemently rejected allegations from a top U.N. official who accused Khartoum of delaying a Medivac helicopter trying to evacuate three dying Ethiopian peacekeepers.
20110807 Reuters ABIDJAN (Reuters) - A bus plunged into the lagoon in Ivory Coast's commercial capital Abidjan on Friday morning, killing 37 of its 47 passengers, a government spokeswoman said.
20110807 Reuters DOLO ADO, Ethiopia (Reuters) - When Somali mother Eblah Sheikh Aden gathered her seven children and set off walking for Ethiopia to find food, she never imagined she would end up sending some of her brood back into the heart of famine.
20110806 Reuters TRIPOLI/BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - The government of Muammar Gaddafi denied a rebel report on Friday that a NATO air strike had killed the Libyan leader's powerful son Khamis, commander of one of the government's most loyal and best-equipped units.
20110806 Reuters BIR AL-GHANAM, Libya (Reuters) - When Libyan rebels pushed government forces out of a cement plant on the edge of Bir al-Ghanam last month and set up a position about 80 km (50 miles) from Tripoli, victory seemed within reach.
20110806 Reuters ISIOLO, Kenya (Reuters) - Ethiopian raiders crossed into the northern Kenyan region of Turkana, killed eight women and stole cattle, a senior administration official said on Friday.
20110806 Reuters UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Sudan's U.N. envoy on Friday vehemently rejected allegations from a top U.N. official who accused Khartoum of delaying a Medivac helicopter trying to evacuate three dying Ethiopian peacekeepers.
20110806 Reuters MOGADISHU (Reuters) - At least 10 Somalis, among them refugees, were killed on Friday during a firefight that broke out in Mogadishu when troops and residents looted truckloads of food meant for famine victims, witnesses said.
20110806 Reuters ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey has called for the 57-nation Organisation of the Islamic Conference to hold an emergency meeting on the famine in Somalia and the risks that poses to other African countries, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Friday.
20110806 Reuters KHARTOUM (Reuters) - North Sudan said on Friday it is holding an oil shipment from South Sudan because the new African state has failed to pay custom duties.
20110806 Reuters BAMAKO (Reuters) - Al Qaeda fighters have fled western Mali following a bloody military offensive to dislodge them from the area, Malian security sources said on Friday.
20110806 Reuters BRAZZAVILLE (Reuters) - Congo Republic on Friday said it wanted to raise $2.6 billion to restock part of the world's second largest forest, as part of its fight against uncontrolled logging and global warming.
20110806 Reuters ROME (Reuters) - Italy has called on NATO to launch an investigation into reports that alliance units failed to rescue migrants fleeing Libya when their boat ran into difficulties, the foreign ministry said on Friday.
20110804 Reuters MOGADISHU (Reuters) - The famine gripping parts of southern Somalia has spread to three new areas of the country, with the entire south likely to be declared a famine zone within the next six weeks, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
20110804 Reuters ABUJA (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell has agreed that a Nigerian community impacted by its oil spills can seek compensation in a British court, lawyers in the case have said, potentially opening itself up to bigger future financial and reputational damages.
20110804 Reuters LONDON (Reuters) - Sending daily text message reminders to health workers can mean nearly 25 percent more children are properly treated for malaria, according to the results of a six month trial conducted in Kenya.
20110804 Reuters YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Cameroon and Chad have signed an accord to ramp up efforts to fight poachers who kill hundreds of elephants a year in a protected park on their common border, ministers from both nations said.
