20110623
Reuters
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday Libya's opposition is making very clear progress on the ground in Libya.

20110623
Reuters
MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) - A split has opened within the NATO-led air campaign against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, with France and Britain rejecting an Italian call for a halt to military action to allow aid access.

20110623
Reuters
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama urged young Africans on Wednesday to fight for women's rights and battle the stigma of AIDS, using her husband's "yes, we can" campaign slogan to motivate youth across the continent.

20110623
Reuters
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama said on Wednesday former South African President Nelson Mandela appeared strong and happy during a meeting with her and her family.

20110623
Reuters
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The chairman of the African Union believes the West will inevitably come round to accepting the organisation's plan for a ceasefire in Libya as NATO's bombing campaign has failed to dislodge Muammar Gaddafi.

20110623
Reuters
MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) - Libya's rebels gained on the diplomatic front on Wednesday by securing China's recognition as a "dialogue partner", but suffered on the battlefield where Muammar Gaddafi's forces were able to shell their stronghold of Misrata.

20110623
Reuters
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - The United Nations said on Wednesday 73,000 people had fled violence in Sudan's Southern Kordofan border state, after more than two weeks of fighting between the northern army and southern-aligned troops.

20110621
Xinhua
TUNIS, June 20 (Xinhua) -- Tunisia's interim Prime Minister Beji Caid Essebsi on Monday received Omrane Boukraa, Libya's Arab affairs Secretary General at the external communication committee, the official state agency TAP reported.

20110621
Xinhua
LUSAKA, June 21 (Xinhua) -- A man who attempted to overthrow the government of Zambia's late president Fredrick Chiluba described him as a true democrat and a man of the people, the Zambia Daily Mail reported on Tuesday.

20110621
Xinhua
LAGOS, June 21 (Xinhua) -- The police in southwest Nigeria's Ogun State have placed its officers and men on red alert to prevent terrorism currently being experienced in some parts of the country.

20110621
Xinhua
ABUJA, June 21 (Xinhua) -- Nigerian has pledged security for delegates to the 30th Session of the D-8 Commission scheduled to take place on July 11-14 in the capital Abuja.

20110621
Xinhua
CONAKRY, June 21 (Xinhua) -- More than 20 people including a teacher and an officer of the Guinean army have been arrested by the gendarmerie in Conakry for drug trafficking, according to security sources.

20110621
Xinhua
UNITED NATIONS, June 20 (Xinhua) -- UN representatives of Sudan and South Sudan welcomed an agreement here Monday on demilitarizing the disputed oil-rich area of Abyei, but exchanged bitter accusations over who started the violence in Abyei and another battleground.

20110621
Xinhua
UNITED NATIONS, June 20 (Xinhua) -- North and south sides of Sudan have inked a deal on the demilitarization of Abyei and are in the midst of working towards other agreements, Thabo Mbeki, head of the African Union (AU) panel on Sudan, told a UN Security Council meeting here Monday.

20110621
Xinhua
JOHANNESBURG, June 20 (Xinhua) -- Excitement was mounting in Pretoria on Monday night as South Africans awaited the arrival of U. S. First Lady Michelle Obama at the city's Waterkloof Air Force Base.

20110621
Xinhua
MOMBASA, Kenya, June 20 (Xinhua) -- Kenyan authorities on Monday charged in court 24 suspected Somali pirates who were arrested by the Danish Navy in the pirate-infested waters of the Indian Ocean.

20110621
Xinhua
KHARTOUM, June 20 (Xinhua) -- Sudan's National Congress Party ( NCP) in the north and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) in the south, on Monday signed an agreement stipulating withdrawal of all military forces from the country's disputed oil-rich area of Abyei.

20110620
Reuters
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Libya's rebel oil chief accused the West on Saturday of failing to keep up its promises to deliver urgent financial aid, saying his authority had now run out of cash completely after months of fighting.

20110620
Reuters
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - NATO has admitted it destroyed a house in Tripoli in which Libyan officials said nine civilians were killed, an incident likely to sow new doubts inside the alliance about its mission in Libya.

20110620
Reuters
BEIJING (Reuters) - A leader of the Libyan rebel group leading the fight to oust Muammar Gaddafi will visit China, Beijing said on Monday in another step in its efforts to expand ties with opposition forces in the war-divided north African country.