20110515
reuters

Doctors failed to complete a heart test on the wife of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, a state newspaper said on Monday, potentially prolonging a stay in hospital after anti-corruption authorities ordered her detention.

20110515
reuters

NATO must broaden the range of targets it is bombing in Libya or risk failing to remove Muammar Gaddafi from power, Britain's most senior military officer was quoted as saying.

20110515
reuters

Italian oil firm Eni SpA expects the "Libyan problem" to be over in a year and is not worried for the longer term, Chief Executive Paolo Scaroni said in an interview published on Monday.

20110515
reuters

The Group of Eight leading industrial nations delivered only 61 percent of the increased aid they promised to sub-Saharan Africa by 2010 in their 2005 summit, a study showed on Monday.

20110515
reuters

Tunisian security forces on Sunday arrested two people suspected of being members of al Qaeda near the Libyan border who were carrying an explosives belt, several bombs and led authorities to a weapons stash in the mountains.

20110515
reuters

Egypt's Pope Shenouda, head of the Orthodox Coptic church, called on Christians to abandon a demonstration against attacks on their community after a clash overnight left 78 wounded.

20110515
reuters

Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika will soon release several thousand Islamists from prison to help draw a line under a conflict that killed an estimated 200,000 people, two prominent Islamists told Reuters.

20110515
reuters

Zimbabwe's central bank said it planned to take punitive measures against foreign-owned banks that resist demands to transfer majority shareholding to local blacks under a controversial empowerment policy.

20110515
reuters

Moroccan security services used truncheons to disperse a pro-democracy protest on the southern outskirts of the capital Rabat on Sunday, injuring several people, a Reuters reporter at the scene said.

20110513
Zimbabwe Independent

SOUTH African President Jacob Zuma has revealed that Sadc leaders would consider what measures to take against Zimbabwe at its summit in Namibia next week after the government refused to comply with the regional bloc's Tribunal ruling on land reforms in 2008.

20110513
Nation

Nairobi — President Jakaya Kikwete has ordered the immediate publication of a corruption report whose delayed release by the government has soured ties with donor countries, some of which have threatened to withhold aid.

20110513
afrcanews

Humanitarian agencies have warned of a human catastrophe and painted a gloomy picture on the plight of young African immigrants who die while trying to enter parts of the European Union [EU]. Some of the migrants brought to safety on the Italian island of Lampedusa at the weekend say they witnessed a boat carrying between 500-600 people.

20110513
afrcanews

Some 1863 cases of cholera have been reported in the Southwest Region of Cameroon with 33 deaths, following the increasing cholera cases in the region. The country's Public Health Minister, Andre Mama Fouda, health officials and administrative authorities visited the municipalities of Tiko, Buea and Limbe to assess the situation.

20110513
afrcanews

Google has made it possible for 99 new countries including 26 African nations to purchase apps from the Android Market. The internet giants believe the development will increase consumer access and developers' support for paid applications. The expansion of the Android Market gives access to the purchase of more games, social and productivity apps.

20110513
afrcanews

As Ivory Coast slowly resumes cocoa exports after a three month hiatus, the legacy of its brutal post-election violence is coming to light. In Yopougon, a suburb of Ivory Coast's commercial capital Abidjan, Losseni Foumba recalls how he organised football matches on a sandy patch of land. With the rains now moving the loose sand, he made a macabre discovery -- the football pitch is now a mass grave.

20110514
reuters

Tears, chants and volleys of gunfire fired into the air punctuated the funeral for nine imams Libya said NATO killed in an air strike, but the alliance said the building it struck was a command-and-control centre.

20110514
reuters

Two Egyptian protesters were shot in Cairo during Christian and Muslim demonstrations and an explosion occurred near the tomb of a prominent Muslim sheikh in the Sinai Peninsula, state news agency MENA said.

20110514
reuters

Uganda's opposition leader who has led protests over rising prices said the action would spread and even soldiers who have battled demonstrators may stop doing so if President Yoweri Museveni fails to offer concessions.

20110514
reuters

Gunmen have killed a U.N. driver in Ethiopia's Somali Region in an ambush that also injured another staff member, the World Food Programme said on Saturday.

20110514
reuters

Seventeen years after the United Nations failed to stop a genocide in Rwanda, its peacekeepers in Africa still lack muscle and need reform, says the man who saved 1,200 people from the 1994 carnage.