20110426
reuters

CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court ruled on Tuesday that the sale of state land to Palm Hills Development (PHD), the country's second-biggest listed developer, was illegal and scrapped the contract.

20110426
reuters

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - An Islamic sect is suspected of being behind bomb blasts that killed at least two people in northeast Nigeria on Sunday, police said, two days before governorship elections in Africa's most populous nation.

20110425
This Day

Abuja — President Goodluck Jonathan has called on Nigerians to put the social upheavals that greeted the presidential election behind them and join hands with him to build a "Nigeria of our dreams".

20110423
Monitor

The Uganda People's Defence Forces Generals have asked for an additional 4,000 soldiers to be sent to the peace-keeping mission (Amisom) in Somalia.

20110424
Nation

Nairobi — Victims of post-election violence want the government stopped from responding to their submissions on its case challenging The Hague trials.

20110424
New Vision

Kampala — PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has said he is ready to meet with the opposition to discuss issues of concern to them under the auspices of the Inter-party Forum for Dialogue.

20110423
Sudan Tribune

Juba — South Sudan's army claimed today killing 57 militia members during Saturday's clashes with Tanginya's forces, in Jonglei state, adding three major-generals and several high ranking officers were among them.

20110424
reuters

BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi bombarded Misrata on Sunday, a day after rebels celebrated the pullback of government troops from the western Libyan city, a rebel spokesman said.

20110424
reuters

LAGOS (Reuters) - More than 500 people were killed in post-election violence last week in the mostly Muslim north, a Nigerian human rights group said on Sunday, and it warned of further unrest during state elections.

20110424
reuters

JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) - At least 55 fighters were killed when south Sudan's army clashed with a rebel militia, a state minister said on Sunday, the latest in a wave of violence across the territory ahead of its independence in July.

20110424
reuters

ALGIERS (Reuters) - At least 36 people have been killed in attacks on the western Libyan city of Misrata by forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi since Saturday, a rebel spokesman there said.

20110423
reuters

CASABLANCA, Morocco (Reuters) - Thousands took to the streets of Morocco on Sunday in peaceful demonstrations to demand sweeping reforms and an end to political detention, the third day of mass protests since they began in February.

20110423
reuters

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali pirates have freed a Greek-owned, Cyprus-flagged ship they seized in January after receiving a ransom, pirates and a piracy monitoring group said.

20110423
reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pro-defense U.S. senators on Sunday said the United States should raise military pressure on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to leave, and one said NATO should end the crisis quickly with an attack aimed at Gaddafi and his inner circle in Tripoli.

20110423
reuters

CAIRO (Reuters) - Political groups with a secular vision of Egypt are racing to build a coalition to compete against the nation's better established Islamists in parliamentary elections planned for September.

20110423
reuters

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called on Libyan Prime Minister Al-Baghdadi Al-Mahmoudi to implement United Nations Security Council resolutions and end attacks on civilians, the ministry said in a Sunday statement.

20110423
rfi

The US carried out its first drone strike on Libya on Saturday, the Pentagon said. Heavy fighting is taking place in Misrata after Moamer Kadhafi's regime gave its army an ultimatum to win back the besieged port city.

20110421
rfi

Harare — MINISTERS have continued to defy President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai over their expenditures resulting in government incurring a deficit in the first two months of the year, with local travel expenses overshooting budget by 100 percent in February.

20110423
the monitor

With no quorum in the House on Thursday evening, Speaker Edward Ssekandi was forced to adjourn proceedings on a Shs1.5 trillion supplementary budget which seeks monies for fighter jets, and the swearing-in of President Museveni among others. Opposition legislators had put up a spirited fight to have most of the money in the budget cut, citing poor spending methods of the NRM and misplaced priorities at a time when Ugandans are suffering.

20110423
vanguard

Akwa Ibom, Delta and Oyo states have pending political issues that necessitate closer security monitoring on Tuesday to avoid outbreak of violence.