20110616
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KAMPALA (Reuters) - A former vice president of Uganda was on Thursday charged with corruption-related offences, a move government critics say is meant to eliminate him as a political threat to veteran leader President Yoweri Museveni.

20110616
Reuters
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali pirates rescued nineteen crew members of the MV ORNA after their hijacked ship caught fire off the Horn of Africa country's coast, pirates and residents said on Thursday.

20110615
Reuters
JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) - A rebel militia killed 29 people including police and civilians in a south Sudan cattle raid, the southern army said on Tuesday, adding to the region's woes ahead of independence in July.

20110615
Reuters
TRIPOLI/KIKLA, Libya (Reuters) - NATO warplanes attacked Tripoli on Tuesday night after Libyan rebels pushed back forces loyal to leader Muammar Gaddafi on three fronts, bringing them closer to the capital.

20110615
Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - House Speaker John Boehner warned President Barack Obama on Tuesday that he was skating on thin legal ice by keeping U.S. forces involved in Libya for nearly three months without the authorization of Congress.

20110615
Reuters
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - The decision by President Jacob Zuma to extend the term of South Africa's top judge is being challenged in court, a legal body and an NGO said on Wednesday.

20110615
Reuters
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's anti-corruption chief has asked Education Minister Sam Ongeri and his permanent secretary James Ole Kiyiapi to resign over the loss of billions of shillings in the ministry.

20110615
Reuters
LONDON, June 15 (TrustLaw) - A Thomson Reuters Foundation poll may have found that Afghanistan is the most dangerous place to be a woman, but Somalia's women's minister is astonished any country could be worse than her own.

20110615
Reuters
NIAMEY (Reuters) - Niger revoked on Tuesday a deal to sell Libya's LAP Green Network a majority stake in national telecoms operator Sonitel and its mobile arm, saying the Libyan firm had not respected the terms of the transaction.

20110615
Xinhua
OTTAWA, June 14 (Xinhua) -- As a result of a day long debate, the House of Commons Tuesday overwhelmingly voted to extend Canada's participation in the NATO-led mission in Libya by three-and-a-half months.

20110615
Xinhua
ASTANA, June 15 (Xinhua) -- The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) said Wednesday its member states would focus on cooperation in trade and counter-terrorism and called for an end to the Libyan crisis.

20110615
Xinhua
KHARTOUM, June 15 (Xinhua) -- Tension is mounting at Sudan's South Kordofan State amid the escalating armed clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) in the region.

20110615
Xinhua
KHARTOUM, June 15 (Xinhua) -- At least 71 people were killed and 36 others injured in armed clashes in the Lakes State of south Sudan, Miraya FM radio which belongs to the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) reported on Wednesday.

20110615
Xinhua
TRIPOLI, June 14 (Xinhua) -- A heavy explosion rocked east the Libyan capital of Tripoli late Tuesday evening, causing a big fire, with helicopters of the NATO forces hovering over the area, a Xinhua correspondent said.

20110615
Xinhua
KINSHASA, June 15 (Xinhua) -- The Ugandan rebel group Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) launched several attacks against numerous villages in the region of Dungu, northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), over the last five days, killing at least six people, a local organization said Tuesday.

20110614
Reuters
MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan rebels faced new obstacles in their campaign to march on Tripoli after shelling from Muammar Gaddafi's forces damaged an oil refinery in the insurgent stronghold of Misrata, disrupting fuel supply lines.

20110614
Reuters
TUNIS (Reuters) - Libyan troops fired Grad rockets from positions controlled by Muammar Gaddafi over the border into Tunisia on Tuesday, witnesses said, in an assault likely to raise already high tensions between the two countries.

20110614
Reuters
TUNIS (Reuters) - Former Tunisian president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, who fled to Saudi Arabia in January, will be tried in absentia on June 20, Tunisia's interim prime minister said on Monday.

20110614
Reuters
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Julius Malema and the ANC Youth League he heads appears to have embarked on a campaign to limit President Jacob Zuma to one term as leader of South Africa's ruling party, union leaders say.

20110614
Reuters
NIAMEY (Reuters) - Two people died following a clash between security forces and bandits on Sunday in northern Niger, where al Qaeda's North African wing operates alongside smugglers, rebels and criminals, Niger officials said on Monday.