20110620 Reuters KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Satellite images showed the north Sudanese military massing in the Southern Kordofan border state, a monitor said, and rebels in Darfur accused Khartoum of attacking them with military vehicles and warplanes on Sunday.
20110620 Reuters CASABLANCA (Reuters) - Several thousand people marched through Morocco's biggest city on Sunday to protest that constitutional reforms unveiled this week by King Mohammed have not gone far enough.
20110620 Xinhua TRIPOLI, June 19 (Xinhua) -- A Libyan government spokesman on Sunday condemned NATO air raids on a civilian neighborhood, calling the attack another "barbaric" crime "deliberately targeting civilians."
20110620 Xinhua PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria, June 20 (Xinhua) -- The Nigerian police in oil rich Rivers State on Monday announced the rescue of the five youth corps members abducted in the state 12 days ago.
20110620 Xinhua TUNIS, June 20 (Xinhua) -- The trial in absentia of former Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his wife, Leila Trabelsi, began on Monday in Tunis, the state-run press agency TAP reported.
20110620 Xinhua BRUSSELS, June 19 (Xinhua) -- NATO said on Sunday that a number of Libyan civilians were killed in a NATO airstrike in Tripoli last night due to "a weapon system failure."
20110620 Xinhua BENGHAZI, Libya, June 19 (Xinhua) -- Libyan rebels denied Sunday that they are engaged in negotiations with leader Muammar Gaddafi's government and said the financial aid will be available in the coming days.
20110619 Reuters TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan officials said some seven civilians were killed in a NATO air strike in eastern Tripoli in the early hours of Sunday morning.
20110619 Reuters TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan officials describe the Abu Salim district in the Libyan capital Tripoli as fervently pro-Gaddafi, but some residents seem more ambivalent about the man who has ruled their North African country for four decades.
20110619 Reuters ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian police have uncovered 20 corpses hidden in a tunnel in the southeastern town of Onitsha, and suspect they were victims of armed robbers.
20110619 Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court on Saturday suspended its order to remove the names of former President Hosni Mubarak and his wife Suzanne from public institutions.
20110619 Reuters MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A Somali court has jailed six foreigners including three Britons and an American for illegally carrying millions of dollars into the country to pay ransoms for the release of vessels held by pirates.
20110619 Xinhua KHARTOUM, June 18 (Xinhua) -- Eleven civilians were killed on Saturday in an armed attack by a rebel group in Sudan's Darfur region, reported Sudanese Ashrouq TV channel.
20110619 Xinhua CAIRO, June 18 (Xinhua) -- Workers from different companies affiliated to Egypt's Suez Canal Authority attempted to storm the authority's main building on Saturday, but were stopped by the military forces.
20110619 Xinhua TUNIS, June 18 (Xinhua) -- Tunisian interim President Fouad Mebazaa Saturday met with Mustafa Abdul Jalil, chairman of Libya's rebel National Transitional Council (NTC), the state-run TAP press agency reported.
20110619 Xinhua CAIRO, June 18 (Xinhua) -- A meeting of international and regional organizations on Libya hosted by the Arab League (AL) Saturday asserted the significant role of the UN in settling the Libyan crisis.
20110619 Xinhua BEIJING, June 19 (Xinhua) -- Ninety days after they launched strikes against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's forces on March 19, the United States and its NATO allies seemed to be losing their initial confidence and become frustrated as the war wasn't proceeding exactly as planned.
20110618 Reuters KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda on Friday denied reports that it had used British aid meant to help alleviate poverty to buy a $48 million luxury jet for President Yoweri Museveni.
20110618 Xinhua TRIPOLI, June 18 (Xinhua) -- Embattled Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi vowed to defeat the NATO alliance's attempt to oust him an audio speech aired by state-run television Friday evening.
