20110402 Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptians demonstrated on Friday demanding that ousted President Hosni Mubarak and other former officials be put on trial and calling for the ruling army council to end 30 years of emergency law.
20110401 presstv Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen says the Gaddafi military is not at the breaking point despite US-led airstrikes on Libya.
20110401 presstv Russian foreign minister has voiced his country's opposition to suggestions by the US-led alliance to supply the Libyan opposition with arms, criticizing Western military operations in the country.
20110401 presstv More people are fleeing Libya amid US-led airstrikes and clashes between troops loyal to ruler Muammar Gaddafi and opposition forces, a French organization says.
20110401 presstv US intelligence operatives had been on the battlefields in Libya before President Barack Obama signed an order allowing covert assistance to the opposition forces, officials say.
20110401 presstv Libyan revolutionary forces have found evidence showing that government forces are using Israeli bombs and rockets against them, a report says.
20110401 Reuters LAGOS (Reuters) - Election spending in Nigeria boosted demand for new vehicles in January and February, with car imports rising for the first time in 18 months as political parties splashed out on vehicles for their campaign tours.
20110401 Reuters BENGHAZI (Reuters) - The U.N. special envoy to Libya Abdelilah al-Khatib arrived in Benghazi on Friday to meet officials of the rebels' provisional council, rebel officials said.
20110401 Reuters BEIJING (Reuters) - The crisis in Libya cannot be resolved militarily, Germany's foreign minister said in Beijing on Friday, calling for efforts for a political solution for the oil-rich North African nation.
20110401 Reuters TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Rebels cheered the defection of a Libyan minister as a sign that Muammar Gaddafi's rule was crumbling, but U.S. officials warned he was far from beaten and made clear they feared entanglement in another painful war.
20110401 Reuters BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - More than 400 people have gone missing in east Libya since the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi began six weeks ago, many feared killed or captured by government forces, human rights officials say.
20110401 Reuters NAPLES/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO said it "seamlessly" assumed full command of military operations over Libya on Thursday, and warned combatants on the ground against attacking civilians.
20110401 Reuters LIVINGSTONE, Zambia (Reuters) - Leaders of the Southern Africa Development Community called late on Thursday for an end to political violence in Zimbabwe.
20110401 Reuters ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Fighters loyal to presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara attacked the residence of incumbent Laurent Gbagbo in Abidjan early on Friday and seized control of Ivory Coast's state television, a Ouattara spokesman said.
20110401 Reuters PARIS (Reuters) - Laurent Gbagbo must leave now to avoid a bloodbath in Ivory Coast's main city Abidjan after facing "mass defections" in the army, France said on Thursday.
20110331 Xinhua TRIPOLI, March 31 (Xinhua) -- Libya's government forces are making a comeback in a bid to drive rebels out of some cities they lost since Western forces started airstrikes, as the international community is mediating an end to strifes.
20110331 Xinhua ABIDJAN, March 30 (Xinhua) -- Forces allied with Cote d'Ivoire's presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara have entered the country's political capital Yamoussoukro, media reports said on Wednesday.
20110331 Xinhua TRIPOLI, March 30 (Xinhua) -- When heavy shelling from ground troops loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi drove rebels out of the key oil port of Ras Lanouf on Wednesday, some coalition members began to discuss the possibility of arming the opposition.
20110331 Xinhua JOHANNESBURG, March 30 (Xinhua) -- One of South Africa's opposition leaders on Wednesday urged President Jacob Zuma to call for an urgent meeting of the United Nations Security Council to review Resolution 1973 on Libya.
