20110625
Reuters
CAIRO (Reuters) - Dozens of people were injured in clashes between two groups of protesters, for and against putting former president Hosni Mubarak on trial, Egypt's official news agency MENA reported on Saturday.

20110625
Reuters
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rap star Missy Elliott on Friday insisted her battle with the thyroid malady Graves' disease has not sidelined her career, a day after it was revealed that she has the ailment.

20110625
xinhua
SANTO DOMINGO, June 24 (Xinhua) -- The Dominican Republic on Friday extradited a Nigerian citizen to the U.S. where he is wanted on charges of drug trafficking, anti-narcotics authorities here said.

20110625
xinhua
BUJUMBURA, June 24 (Xinhua) -- Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza on Friday officially launched a national program to construct at least 100 villages, the state-run radio reported.

20110625
xinhua
NEW YORK, June 24 (Xinhua) -- The former chairman of Egypt's Bank of Alexandria pleaded guilty on Friday in New York of sexual abuse in the third degree.

20110625
xinhua
BENGHAZI, Libya, June 24 (Xinhua) -- A humanitarian vessel carrying about 300 people arrived in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi on Friday, in a move that may start contacts between the Libyan government and the rebels after four months of fighting.

20110625
Allafrica
Lagos — The Police Command in Maiduguri, Borno State, has called on Boko Haram, the extremist Islamic sect blamed for a series of deadly attacks in northern Nigeria to declare a ceasefire and come to dialogue.

20110624
Reuters
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Zimbabwe has been given the green light to sell diamonds from its Marange diamond fields by the industry's leading certification system, but the decision did not have the backing of all members.

20110624
Reuters
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Former rebels loyal to Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara were last week still committing abuses such as executions and torture in which they killed at least 8 people, the United Nations said on Thursday.

20110624
Reuters
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Unidentified aircraft attacked an insurgent base near the southern Somali port of Kismayu late on Thursday, wounding a number of fighters, al Shabaab officials and residents said.

20110624
Reuters
KIGALI (Reuters) - Rwandan President Paul Kagame said on Thursday the central African country was not under any security threat, a day after police arrested suspected terrorists allegedly linked to exiled generals.

20110624
Reuters
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States said on Thursday it submitted a draft resolution to the U.N. Security Council that would authorize the deployment of 4,200 Ethiopian troops to Sudan's disputed Abyei region.

20110624
Reuters
HARARE (Reuters) - A top Zimbabwe general said Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai was a security threat fronting Western interests, which justified military involvement in politics, state media reported on Thursday.

20110624
Reuters
DAKAR (Reuters) - Senegal President Abdoulaye Wade backed down on a proposed change to the election rules on Thursday, completely withdrawing a bill that sparked violent clashes between riot police and protesters in the capital.

20110624
Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hundreds of Libyan students in the United States on Libyan government-funded scholarships will be able to continue their studies despite sanctions against Libya, the U.S. State Department said on Thursday.

20110624
Reuters
YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Cameroon and Nigeria plan to enlarge their protected forest areas and boost conservation programmes to save a rare chimpanzee subspecies from going extinct because of hunting and habitat destruction.

20110624
Reuters
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The world's top war crimes prosecutor said forces loyal to ousted Ivory Coast leader Laurent Gbagbo as well as those backing his rival, Alassane Ouattara, committed war crimes in the post-election violence.

20110623
PRESS TV
Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi has accused NATO of murder, vowing to retaliate for the killing of civilians during air raids by the Western military alliance.

20110623
Reuters
HARARE (Reuters) - A top Zimbabwe general said Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai was a security threat fronting Western interests, which justified military involvement in politics, state media reported on Thursday.

20110623
Reuters
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan police briefly detained activists on Wednesday who barricaded the offices of the education minister and demanded he resign over a corruption scandal.