20110618
Xinhua
TUNIS, June 17 (Xinhua) -- A Tunisian military magistrate has begun extradition procedures against former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the official press agency TAP reported on Friday.

20110618
Xinhua
CAIRO, June 17 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday sent the files of the fugitive Egyptian businessman Hussein Salem, a close associate of former President Hosni Mubarak, to the Spanish authorities for his extradition.

20110617
allafrica
Accra — Every day they risk their lives for a few cents: scavenging piles of garbage for pieces of metals and e-waste. On Africa's dumping sites the will to survive is stronger than the fear of illness or death.

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allafrica
It's not only environmental activists who have been cheered up by Germany, Switzerland and Italy's recent decisions to abandon nuclear power in future. The sustainable energy sector is also excited by the possibilities.

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allafrica
Zimbabwe has made a request to South Africa for a US$50 million rescue package for struggling companies in Bulawayo, the country's industrial hub.

20110617
Reuters
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - NATO planes resumed bombardments of Tripoli after Muammar Gaddafi's son said the Libyan leader was willing to hold elections and step aside if he lost, an offer rejected by rebels and the United States.

20110617
Reuters
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - An explosion near a church killed four children in Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno on Thursday, a region which has been beset by attacks by a radical Islamist sect, police said.

20110617
Reuters
ABUJA (Reuters) - A suspected suicide bomber detonated explosives outside Nigeria's police headquarters on Thursday, officials said, killing several people and marking a serious deterioration in security in the West African nation.

20110617
Reuters
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - North Sudan's army vowed on Thursday to continue fighting against southern-aligned groups in the oil-producing border state of Southern Kordofan to end what it calls an armed rebellion.

20110617
Reuters
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda's president should order an independent investigation into the killing of nine unarmed civilians by security forces during protests against inflation, more than 100 rights groups said in a letter to him on Thursday.

20110617
Reuters
MONROVIA (Reuters) - The Liberian government said on Thursday it had seized a cache of arms and ammunitions including assault rifles and rocket launchers in a town near the border with neighbouring Ivory Coast.

20110617
Reuters
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Eritrea has rejected Ethiopian claims it trained the rebels who plotted to carry out bombings during an African Union summit in Addis Ababa in February.

20110616
Reuters
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya's Muammar Gaddafi is willing to hold elections and step aside if he lost, his son said on Thursday, an offer unlikely to placate his opponents but which could test the unity of the Western alliance trying to force him out.

20110616
Reuters
ABUJA (Reuters) - Dead bodies were being carried from a police car park in Nigeria's capital Abuja on Thursday, the Red Cross said on Thursday, after an explosion set dozens of vehicles ablaze and sent thick black smoke into the sky.

20110616
Reuters
JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) - South Sudan's army said on Thursday it was ready for more attacks by northern forces, accusing them of clashing with its troops in the disputed Abyei area, situated in an ill-defined border region.

20110616
Reuters
MIDRAND, South Africa (Reuters) - South Africa's controversial ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema on Friday dismissed claims he would oppose President Jacob Zuma's re-election as leader of the ruling party.

20110616
Reuters
ABUJA (Reuters) - A radical Islamist sect is suspected to be behind a bomb in Nigeria's capital Abuja on Thursday that left dead bodies scattered in a police station car park, a police spokesman said.

20110616
Reuters
MOSCOW (Reuters) - An envoy leading Moscow's efforts to help end the war in Libya said Muammar Gaddafi's government rejected the idea of his departure from power during talks in Tripoli in Thursday, Russian news agencies reported.

20110616
Reuters
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed alarm on Wednesday at recent fighting in Sudan's oil-producing Southern Kordofan state ahead of southern Sudan's July 9 secession.

20110616
Reuters
DUBAI (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden's long-time lieutenant Ayman al-Zawahri has taken command of al Qaeda after the killing of the group's founder and leader, an Islamist website said on Thursday.