20110611 aljazeera Abdishakur Sheikh Hassan, the Somali interior ministry, has died after a suicide attack at his home, apparently carried out by a niece, a security official said.
20110610 Reuters TRIPOLI (Reuters) - NATO warplanes pummeled a town west of Libya's capital, state media said soon after Western and Arab powers promised more than $1 billion to help rebels fighting to end Muammar Gaddafi's four-decade rule.
20110610 Reuters KHARTOUM (Reuters) - More than 10,000 people displaced by fighting in Sudan's Southern Kordofan were staying near a U.N. compound on Thursday, the country mission spokesman said, after nearly a week of clashes in the tense border state.
20110610 Reuters ABUJA (Reuters) - The naming of Nigeria's new cabinet could take several more weeks because the Senate has gone on recess, undermining President Goodluck Jonathan's hopes of having a new administration in place quickly.
20110610 Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A 26-year-old American was arrested in Ohio on Thursday on charges that he tried to help Somali al-Shabaab rebels, the latest American accused of trying to aid the militant group, the U.S. Justice Department said.
20110610 Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday pressed Gabon's ruler Ali Bongo Ondimba in a White House meeting to do more to fight corruption and prevent human rights abuse.
20110610 Reuters BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade appealed to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on Thursday to step down, and offered to help ease his former ally's exit from power.
20110610 Reuters GENEVA (Reuters) - Libya on Thursday accused rebels of butchery and cannibalism, and NATO forces of war crimes, while firmly denying a United Nations report which found that its own troops had carried out murders, torture and abductions.
20110610 Reuters ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Eritrea has accused four British nationals it detained late last year of espionage, terrorism and using one of its islands as a depot for arms.
20110610 Reuters LONDON (Reuters) - Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger had the lowest number of meningitis A cases in an epidemic season this year after the introduction of a cheap vaccine designed for Africa, World Health Organisation (WHO) data showed on Thursday.
20110610 Reuters BRUSSELS (Reuters) - In a spartan office on a quiet tree-lined street near the power centres of Brussels sits a man whose role is to promote Libya's opposition movement in Europe.
20110607 Allafrica United Nations humanitarian agencies and their partners need to scale up aid to remote eastern and north-eastern areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a senior United Nations official said today, warning that as many as 1.7 million people remain displaced from their homes and in fear of daily attacks from armed groups.
20110607 Allafrica The success story of southern Africa's turnaround from being a food deficit region to one producing surplus grain underscores the point that agricultural policies are key to boosting production and improving food security in the region.
20110607 Allafrica Beijing — Jasmine blossoms' fall from grace in the Chinese flower industry is not the only blow Chinese businesses have suffered as a result of the North African and Middle Eastern democratic uprisings this spring. China is evaluating the impact of the Jasmine revolution on its overseas investment and outward business expansion strategy.
20110607 Aljazeera Several huge explosions have been reported from near Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's residential compound in central Tripoli, the Libyan capital.
20110607 Reuters LUSAKA (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is projecting economic growth of 7.4 percent for Zambia in 2012 from 6.8 percent this year, Finance minister Situmbeko Musokotwane said on Tuesday.
20110607 Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - Hundreds of Egyptians took to the streets on Monday and stood in silence in memory of activist Khaled Said, beaten to death outside an Internet cafe exactly a year ago by two police officers in the coastal city Alexandria.
20110607 Reuters TUNIS (Reuters) - The African Development Bank (AfDB) will lend $365 million to South Africa's coal-intensive power utility to boost its share of renewable energy, saving millions of tonnes of CO2 emissions, the bank said on Monday.
20110607 Reuters BEIJING (Reuters) - Libya's Foreign Minister arrived in China on Tuesday for talks and Beijing said a Chinese diplomat had visited a Libyan rebel stronghold, as China looks to play a more active role in efforts to end fighting over the fate of Muammar Gaddafi's government.
