20110607 Reuters YAFRAN/TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Loud explosions shook Tripoli on Tuesday in what appeared to be stepped up NATO air strikes on the Libyan capital, a day after rebels seized a town in the west, driving out Muammar Gaddafi's forces.
20110606 Aljazeera A Libyan woman who claimed she was raped by troops loyal to Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, and found refuge in Qatar only to be deported to Libya soon after, is on her way to the United States, her sister has said.
20110606 Xinhua LUSAKA, June 6 (Xinhhua) -- Zambia's high commissioner to Botswana has said it has been virtually impossible to meet all the warring parties in the Madagascar political crisis, hence the decision to meet them in Botswana, the Zambia Daily Mail reported on Monday.
20110606 Xinhua OUAGADOUGOU, June 6 (Xinhua) -- Burkina Faso will prosecute the 57 mutineers arrested last week in the country economic capital Bobo Dioulasso, according to the West African country's Justice Minister Jerome Traore.
20110606 Xinhua MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, June 6 (Xinhua) -- Two persons were killed at the weekend in a northeastern town of Nigeria when troops deployed to quell religious extremism clashed with a popular Islamic sect Boko Haram, according to local police.
20110606 Xinhua ABUJA, June 6 (Xinhua) -- Nigeria's outgoing Speaker of the House of Representaives Dimeji Bankole has been arrested, according to the West African country's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
20110606 presstv Sudan has dismissed a request by the UN Security Council (UNSC) to pull its forces out of the oil-producing region of Abyei on the border between the South and the North.
20110605 allafrica Harare — PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe is hoping to bounce back from his recent setbacks on the diplomatic front when regional leaders meet in South Africa at the weekend to discuss Zimbabwe's unending political crisis.
20110605 Reuters UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. peacekeepers in Sudan stayed holed up in their barracks for two days during violent clashes between northern and southern forces that sparked the flight of tens of thousands of civilians, diplomats told Reuters.
20110605 Reuters JUBA/KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Clashes have broken out in a flashpoint region of Sudan controlled by the northern government, exacerbating tensions as the southern portion of the vast country prepares to secede following a referendum.
20110605 Reuters TRIPOLI (Reuters) - British and French attack helicopters struck inside Libya for the first time overnight on Saturday, hitting targets in the oil port of Brega as NATO forces stepped up their air war against Muammar Gaddafi.
20110605 Reuters LONDON (Reuters) - Libyan rebels need to flesh out their plans for post-Gaddafi rule and convince members of the current Libyan administration that they could work together, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Sunday.
20110605 Reuters NAIROBI (Reuters) - Twenty eight people were injured in the Kenyan capital on Sunday in a blast that police suspect went off at a hardware shop, setting a petrol station on fire.
20110605 Reuters OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Seven people were killed and 33 injured when government troops crushed a mutiny in a military camp in Bobo Dioulasso, 350 km from the Burkina Faso capital, officials said on Saturday.
20110605 Reuters TRIPOLI (Reuters) - At least six powerful explosions were heard from central Tripoli early on Saturday evening, a Reuters correspondent in the Libyan capital said.
20110605 Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's public prosecutor said it had referred 48 Muslims and Christians to criminal court on Saturday for their roles in sectarian violence that led to the burning of a church in the Cairo district of Imbaba on May 7.
20110604 ReutersKHARTOUM (Reuters) - Khartoum on Saturday dismissed calls by the U.N. Security Council for it to withdraw its forces immediately from Abyei, the disputed region of divided Sudan they seized on May 21.
20110604 Reuters TRIPOLI (Reuters) - British and French attack helicopters were used to strike inside Libya for the first time overnight on Saturday, hitting targets in the oil port of Brega as NATO forces stepped up their air war against Muammar Gaddafi.
