20110530 Reuters TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Former French foreign minister Roland Dumas visited Libya as a lawyer to prepare a legal case on behalf of victims of NATO bombing and said he was prepared to defend leader Muammar Gaddafi if he is sent to The Hague.
20110530 Reuters VARNA, Bulgaria (Reuters) - NATO's military campaign in Libya is achieving its goals and the rule of Muammar Gaddafi is coming to an end, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Monday.
20110530 Reuters CASABLANCA (Reuters) - Police used truncheons to break up an anti-government protest in Morocco's commercial capital, Casablanca, on Sunday and dozens of people were injured, organisers said.
20110530 Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - The wealth of toppled Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak is no more than $1 million and he has no assets overseas, his lawyer said on Sunday.
20110530 Reuters ALGIERS (Reuters) - Reopening Algeria's border with Morocco is not on the agenda, Algerian Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia said on Sunday, dismissing media reports that a thaw over the issue was imminent.
20110530 Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - The Muslim Brotherhood wants a diverse parliament after elections in September and is not seeking to impose Islamic law on Egypt, the head of the group's newly formed political party said in an interview.
20110530 Reuters AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court prosecutor has accused Kenyan government officials of creating a "climate of fear" through a campaign to halt the ICC's probe into the country's post-election violence.
20110530 Reuters ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan was sworn in for his first full elected term at the helm of Africa's most populous nation on Sunday, faced with the challenge of driving reform and trying to heal regional rifts.
20110529 Reuters TRIPOLI (Reuters) - NATO aircraft destroyed the guard towers at Muammar Gaddafi's compound in Tripoli, a NATO official said on Saturday, then staged a rare daytime air strike on the Libyan capital, heightening pressure on him to quit.
20110527 presstv The number of people displaced as a result of violence in the Abyei region of southern Sudan has reached 150,000, a southern Sudanese minister says.
20110527 Reuters TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Russia believes Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi should quit and could help broker his departure, a senior Russian official said on Friday in an important boost to NATO powers keen on ending his 41-year rule.
20110527 Reuters TURALEI, Sudan (Reuters) - Alel Bol fled with four of her six children when armed northerners on motorbikes roared into her home in Sudan's contested Abyei border region and, she said, bombs started falling from the sky.
20110527 Reuters MONZAYA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - The actors circle and glare in mock anger, surrounded by villagers who have come to witness a performance played out on the sandy earth in the shade of mango trees in northern Congo.
20110527 Reuters MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) - Bombed beyond recognition in some places, the Libyan city of Misrata is slowly coming back to life after some of the fiercest fighting of a three-month rebel uprising against Muammar Gaddafi.
20110527 Reuters TATAOUINE, Tunisia (Reuters) - Libya's rebel-held town of Zintan came under intense rocket attack overnight from forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, foreign doctors who were working in the town told Reuters.
20110527 Reuters DEAUVILLE, France (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Friday that NATO's war to oust Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was entering a new phase and that the deployment of British helicopters would turn up the pressure.
20110527 Reuters DEAUVILLE, France (Reuters) - Group of Eight leaders on Friday backed a $40 billion package of support for Tunisia and Egypt to help stabilise their economies after popular revolts that ousted long-time authoritarian rulers.
20110527 Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - Thousands of Egyptians packed Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday in what organisers called a "second revolution" to push for faster reforms and a speedy trial for ousted President Hosni Mubarak and his former aides.
20110527 Reuters MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Suspected members of a radical Islamist sect attacked a police station in northeast Nigeria with explosives and assault rifles on Friday, killing at least 13 people including civilians, police said.
20110526 allafrica HSBC and Goldman Sachs are among the key western bankers for Colonel Gaddafi’s regime, a 2010 document leaked to Global Witness appears to show.
