20110517
Daily Champion

Maiduguri — THERE was heavy exchange of gunshots between the military and unknown gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram last night at Gwange ward of the Maiduguri metropolis.

20110517
RFI

South Africa's former President Nelson Mandela has voted at his Johannesburg home in the country's third democratic local elections. He was one of 239,000 people permitted to cast their ballot ahead of Wednesday's poll for reasons of ill health.

20110516
Daily Independent (Lagos)

Abuja — The statistics are grim and disheartening. Between 1955 and 2004 the 16 West African states of Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), had experienced 44 successful military coups, 43 often-bloody failed coups, at least 82 coup plots, seven civil wars, and many other forms of political conflicts. These conflicts have adversely crippled development in affected countries, causing suffering among the peoples of the sub-region.

20110516
Daily Champion

The hope of living in the US by over 22,000 people across the world, who were recently declared winners in the 2011 edition of the US Visa Lottery, has been dashed as the US State Department weekend said it mistakenly announced the 22,000 applicants winners.

20110516
allAfrica

The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, announced Monday that his office will seek arrest warrants on war crimes charges for Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi, his son Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, whom Ocampo described as the “de facto prime minister,” and Director of Military Intelligence Abdullah Al-Senussi, Gaddafi’s “right hand man, the executioner” on war crimes charges.

20110517
Reuters

The world's top war crimes prosecutor sought an arrest warrant for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, accusing him of killing protesters who want an end to end his four-decade rule.

20110517
Reuters

Shokri Ghanem, chairman of Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC), has defected from the regime of Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan rebels' finance and oil minister said on Tuesday.

20110517
Reuters

Libya's rebel leadership has set a budget to spend $3 billion over the next 6 months but was still chasing down cash to finance that amount, rebel oil and finance representative Ali Tarhouni said on Tuesday.

20110517
Reuters

The Sudanese army has carried out air strikes against two villages in the troubled western Darfur region, international peacekeepers said

20110517
Reuters

Shokri Ghanem, chairman of Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC), has defected from the regime of Muammar Gaddafi, Arab television stations reported on Monday.

20110517
Reuters

More than 800 people were killed and 65,000 displaced in three days of violence following a presidential election in April won by President Goodluck Jonathan, Human Rights Watch said on Monday.

20110517
Reuters

Libya said on Monday that tens of thousands of telecoms workers would act as human shields to deter NATO strikes on communications infrastructure, which it said had inflicted serious financial damage.

20110517
Reuters

The wife of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak relinquished some of her assets to the state on Monday, days after anti-corruption authorities ordered her detention.

Popular uprisings in North Africa have given a boost to democratization across the continent, but the world has marginalized Africa in the handling of recent crises in the continent, says former South African President Thabo Mbeki.

20110516
this day

The President of the International Monetary Fund, Mr. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has been arrested and charged with sexual assault.

20110516
vangaurd

Abuja — NINE outgoing state governors across the country who have enjoyed immunity for the past four or eight years may soon be guests of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, as their tenures expire on May 29.

20110515
daily nation

Olympic marathon champion Samuel Wanjiru has died after apparently falling from the top floor of his home in Nyahururu, central Kenya.

20110515
rfi

Angry soldiers in Burkina Faso fired their weapons into the air late into the night on Saturday a month after widespread army and police mutinies.

20110515
Monitor

The Ministry of Health yesterday confirmed a new outbreak of the deadly Ebola disease in the country, describing it as an epidemic. "Even one case is an epidemic because this is a very dangerous and fatal disease," said Dr Joaquim Saweka of the World Health Organisation.

20110515
reuters

Uganda's main opposition leader, who has been leading anti-government protests for more than a month, is under effective house arrest after police surrounded his home on Monday, his party said.