20110717 Reuters BIR AYAD, Libya (Reuters) - Heavy clashes were under way on Saturday morning on the front line in Libya's Western Mountains at the town of Bir Ghanam, a Reuters correspondent in a neighbouring village reported.
20110717 Reuters UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council said on Friday it was gravely concerned about violence in a volatile and oil-rich Sudan border territory, and called for an immediate end to hostilities there.
20110717 Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - South Sudan, already recognised by Israel, will forge relations with the Jewish state and hopes to help bring peace to the Middle East, the new state's vice president said in remarks received on Friday.
20110717 Reuters GENEVA (Reuters) - Some 625,000 migrants have fled Libya since February, but many thousands remain stranded in isolated desert areas in the south, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said on Friday.
20110717 Reuters JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa has set the stage for the mass deportation of more than one million Zimbabwean immigrants later this month in a move that could alter its status as the world's largest country of refuge.
20110717 Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - Holding a portrait of a young man, Hamed Fikri's eyes welled with tears as he listened to a speaker in Cairo's Tahrir Square demand justice for those killed in the uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak in February.
20110717 Reuters RABAT (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi said on Friday the Libyan people rejected the recognition by the United States and other world powers of rebel leaders as the legitimate representatives of the country's government.
20110717 Reuters ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The United States Friday recognised Libya's rebel National Transitional Council (TNC) as a legitimate government, a diplomatic boost which could unlock billions of dollars in frozen assets.
20110717 Reuters DAKAR (Reuters) - Critics and rivals of Senegal's Abdoulaye Wade warned on Friday of political tensions and more street protests if the president goes ahead with plans to seek a third term in an election due in February.
20110717 Reuters GENEVA (Reuters) - Five million people are at risk of cholera in drought-hit Ethiopia, where acute watery diarrhoea has broken out in crowded, unsanitary conditions, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday.
20110715 Reuters ABUJA (Reuters) - Germany will increase its involvement in Nigeria's liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday, as Africa's most populous nation looks to take advantage of its vast gas reserves.
20110715 Reuters UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The General Assembly admitted South Sudan on Thursday as the 193rd member of the United Nations, sealing the new African country's independence after decades of conflict.
20110715 Reuters IMIRINGI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigerian youths broke into a Niger Delta crude oil flow station owned by Royal Dutch Shell on Thursday in protest at what they said was the firm's failure to provide their communities with electricity.
20110715 Reuters ZINTAN, Libya (Reuters) - The rebels in Libya's Western Mountains have shown resilience over months of battling Muammar Gaddafi's forces, but divided loyalties could frustrate their ambitions for a quick march on Tripoli.
20110715 Reuters AL-QAWALISH, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan rebels ran into a minefield when they recaptured a frontline village from Muammar Gaddafi's forces, they said on Thursday, providing fresh evidence government troops are using mines in the uprising.
20110715 Reuters JUBA (Reuters) - Newly independent South Sudan, eager for investment, wants to pass a new and attractive mining act before October, when bad weather could hinder exploration for minerals such as gold, a government official said.
20110715 Reuters TRIPOLI (Reuters) - The government of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has halted all cooperation with Italy's Eni and is talking to other energy groups about new deals, Prime Minister Al-Baghdadi Ali Al-Mahmoudi said on Thursday.
20110715 Reuters JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's most prominent corruption buster accused the police and bureaucrats on Thursday of improper behaviour in $265 million lease deals that have embarrassed President Jacob Zuma's government.
20110715 Reuters ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Western powers and Arab states meeting in Istanbul on Friday will seek a political solution to end the civil war in Libya, amid conflicting signals over whether Muammar Gaddafi intends to fight on or surrender power.
20110715 Reuters AL-QAWALISH, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan rebel fighters prepared for a new offensive south of Tripoli on Thursday but tactical errors raised new questions about whether they will be able to march on the capital.
