20110604 Reuters LONDON (Reuters) - British Foreign Secretary William Hague visited the Libyan rebel stronghold of Benghazi on Saturday to show support for the opposition fighting to oust Muammar Gaddafi from power, the British government said.
20110604 Reuters TUNIS (Reuters) - Three people were killed and 90 wounded after rival clans clashed over access to jobs in the central Tunisian mining town of Metlaoui, the Interior Ministry said on Saturday.
20110604 Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court convicted former finance minister Youssef Boutros-Ghali in absentia on Saturday and sentenced him to 30 years in prison for profiteering and abusing state and private assets, a court source said.
20110604 Reuters GAZA (Reuters) - Dozens of Palestinian protesters in Gaza on Saturday stormed the iron gate of a border crossing with Egypt shut for the first time since it reopened late last month, Hamas border officials and witnesses said.
20110604 Reuters MOGADISHU (Reuters) - African Union troops with Somali government soldiers captured a strategic district in the capital Mogadishu from al Shabaab rebels after heavy fighting and casualties on both sides, the AU force said on Saturday.
20110604 Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptians protesting the death of a 40-year old Egyptian driver who they say was killed in police custody set a police station in central Cairo on fire, witnesses and security sources said on Friday.
20110604 Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. first lady Michelle Obama will visit South Africa and Botswana later this month on an official visit to promote issues such as education, health, and wellness, the White House said on Friday.
20110604 Reuters OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Gunfire rang out on Friday when loyal troops attacked a mutinous military camp in an effort to stamp out protests in Burkina Faso's economic capital, witnesses said.
20110601 Reuters TRIPOLI/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO said on Wednesday it had extended its Libyan mission for a further 90 days, after Muammar Gaddafi made it clear he would not step down, dashing hopes of a negotiated end to the uprising against his rule.
20110601 Reuters NAIROBI (Reuters) - A power-sharing deal might offer Somalia's feuding leaders a way to save face and reach agreement on political reform, the U.N.'s special envoy to the Horn of Africa nation said on Wednesday.
20110601 Reuters ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia said on Wednesday it had commuted the death sentences of 23 of former dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam's henchmen convicted of genocide in 2008, reducing the penalties to life imprisonment after an appeal.
20110601 Reuters KHARTOUM/JUBA (Reuters) - North Sudan's government laid out new proposals to resolve a dispute with the south over the central Abyei region, including setting up a rotating administration for the contested territory.
20110601 Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian panel investigating corruption cases committed under deposed President Hosni Mubarak has banned the former head of a market regulator from leaving the country, the state news agency MENA said on Tuesday.
20110601 Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A man U.S. authorities accused of being involved in genocide in Rwanda was convicted of visa fraud in federal court in Kansas on Tuesday but jurors split over whether he lied about his role in the mass killings.
20110601 Reuters TUNIS (Reuters) - The Tunisian army and navy are trying to rescue 700 people trapped in a fishing boat that broke down 20 km (12.4 miles) from the Tunisian island of Kerkennah, the Tunisian state news service TAP reported on Tuesday.
20110601 Reuters TUNIS (Reuters) - Qatar has frozen assets belonging to deposed Tunisian president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and his family, a spokesman for the Tunisian Justice Ministry said on Tuesday.
20110601 Reuters TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi is emphatic he will not leave Libya, South African President Jacob Zuma said on Tuesday after talks with the Libyan leader that left prospects for a negotiated end to the conflict looking dim.
20110530 Xinhua KHARTOUM, May 30 (Xinhua) -- The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) has appointed a military governor for the country's disputed oil-rich area of Abyei after the SAF controlled the area on May 20, local Al-Sudani daily reported on Monday.
20110530 Reuters TRIPOLI/VARNA, Bulgaria (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's "reign of terror" is coming to an end, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Monday, ahead of a peace mission by South African President Jacob Zuma.
