20110627
Xinhua
UNITED NATIONS, June 27 (Xinhua) -- Although an agreement is still far from being concluded, the beginning of a negotiation process is underway over conflict-torn Libya, Lynn Pascoe, who is the UN's under secretary-general for political affairs, said here on Monday.

20110627
xinhua
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria June 27 (Xinhua) -- At least 30 people have been killed and several others seriously injured by suspected members of the Boko Haram sect in a drinking joint in northeast Nigeria's Borno State on Sunday, according to security sources.

20110627
xinhua
TUNIS, June 27 (Xinhua) -- Between 14,000 to 18,000 people will be excluded from Tunisia's elections for the Constituent Assembly due to be held on Oct. 3, 2011, the official TAP press agency reported on Monday.

20110627
xinhua
RABAT, June 26 (Xinhua) -- About 1 million Moroccans took to the streets across the country on Sunday to support the constitutional changes proposed by King Muhammed VI, local media reported.

20110627
xinhua
ALGIERS, June 27 (Xinhua) -- Libyan Foreign Minister Abdelaati Obeidi has been meeting some foreign representatives in Djerba, Tunisia, in a bid to find solutions to the Libyan crisis, Tunisia's state-run press agency TAP reported Sunday.

20110627
xinhua
CAIRO, June 26 (Xinhua) -- The Egyptian Tagammu party decided on Saturday to suspend its participation in the meeting held by the newly-formed 18-party Democratic Alliance, reflecting disagreement still existing over whether a new constitution or elections should come first.

20110627
xinhua
LAGOS, June 26 (Xinhua) -- Twenty-five people were killed in northeastern Nigeria as three bombs exploded, media reported on Sunday.

20110627
Xinhua
PRETORIA, June 26 (Xinhua) -- Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi had accepted of not being part of the negotiation process, according to the communiqué issued by the meeting of the African Union (AU) High-Level ad hoc Committee on Libya in Pretoria on Sunday.

20110626
Reuters
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - NATO said on Saturday its missiles had hit a site in Libya used by Muammar Gaddafi's forces to stockpile military supplies and vehicles, while Gaddafi's state media said 15 civilians had been killed.

20110626
Reuters
ISIOLO, Kenya (Reuters) - Clashes over control of grazing land and water sources in drought-afflicted northern Kenya killed at least 10 people on Saturday, police said.

20110626
Reuters
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's health ministry has no official documentation confirming former President Hosni Mubarak has cancer, newspapers quoted on Sunday a deputy minister as saying, casting doubt on comments by Mubarak's lawyer.

20110626
Reuters
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzania will present a new constitution in 2014, a year before its next parliamentary and presidential elections, Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda said on Saturday, amid opposition pressure for reform.

20110626
Reuters
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Four members of Libya's national soccer team and 13 other football figures have defected to rebels in a blow to Muammar Gaddafi's government, the rebel authority in eastern Libya said on Saturday.

20110626
ReutersTRIPOLI (Reuters) - Standing opposite the wreckage of what used to be the Hotel Wenzrik in central Tripoli, the Libyan man spoke his mind to reporters for a good few minutes, even as their government minders began to zero in on him.

20110626
Reuters
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - In the brief, heady period at the start of the uprising in the Libyan capital against Muammar Gaddafi, activists relied on Facebook and text messages to network, organise and express themselves.

20110626
xinhua
TUNIS, June 25 (Xinhua) -- A court in Tunis has doubled the sentence against Imed Trabelsi, the former nephew of ousted president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, sentencing him to four years in prison and a 3,000 dinar (about 2,200 USD) fine, for drug abuse, the state-run press agency TAP reported on Saturday.

20110626
xinhua
KHARTOUM, June 25 (Xinhua) -- Sudan's South Kordofan State Governor Ahmed Haroun said Saturday that life in the region has been restored to its normal course after clashes it has witnessed since June 6.

20110626
xinhua
CAIRO, June 25 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian Finance Minister Samir Radwan said Saturday that his country has turned down loans from the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) after cuts of budget deficit.

20110626
xinhua
NOUAKCHOTT, June 25 (Xinhua) -- The Mauritanian army clashed with the al-Qaida branch in North Africa (AQIM) in northern Mali, destroying a base and vehicles of the terrorist group, the military confirmed on Saturday.

20110625
Reuters
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Tunisia, whose demonstrations inspired the so-called 'Arab Spring' uprisings across the region, on Friday became the first North African state to join the International Criminal Court (ICC).