20110318 presstv The United Nations Security Council has passed a resolution ordering a no-fly zone over Libya, while suspending the country from the Human Rights Council.
20110318 presstv Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi remains defiant despite the passage of a UN Security Council measure authorizing the enforcement of a no-fly zone over the country, vowing a military assault on the eastern city of Benghazi.
20110318 presstv A popular campaign by a group of Egyptian activists against gas exports to Israel has won a court case on the terms of the country's gas deal with Tel Aviv.
20110318 presstv Fresh clashes between Somali government troops backed by African Union (AU) forces and al-Shabab fighters have left at least 13 people dead in the Somali capital of Mogadishu.
20110318 presstv Somali pirates have hijacked an Indonesian-flagged ship with 20 crew onboard in the Gulf of Aden, the European Union anti-piracy mission says.
Gaborone — They come like pilgrims to the Department of Geological Surveys office in Lobatse, 120 kilometres south of the Botswana capital. In the sparsely furnished offices there, they pore over charts, trying to take the guesswork out of choosing where to sink a borehole.
Washington, DC — The Obama administration's top Africa official, Johnnie Carson, has given the head of Nigeria's election commission, Professor Attahiru Jega, strong public backing.
Khartoum — The ruling National Congress Party (NCP) announced today that Sudanese president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir, Vice President Ali Osman Taha and South Sudan president Salva Kiir will convene on Thursday to discuss the explosive situation in the North-South border region of Abyei.
Benghazi — Benghazi, Libya's second largest city and seat of the opposition Libyan National Council, is bracing for the fall-out from fighting in Brega, 200 kms away, with residents warning they could suffer gas and electricity shortages.
AJDABIYAH, Libya (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi's forces seized a strategic town in eastern Libya on Tuesday, opening the way to the rebel stronghold of Benghazi while world powers failed to agree to push for a no-fly zone.
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - The United States and other world powers urged south and north Sudan on Tuesday to return to talks over the looming division of the country, and to control armed groups blamed for recent attacks.
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Gunmen shot dead four people on Tuesday near a roadblock run by youth supporters of Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo in the Abidjan suburb of Deux Plateau, several witnesses said.
PARIS (Reuters) - Sanctions will slowly but surely break Laurent Gbagbo's grip on Ivory Coast and France will do what it can to ensure Alassane Ouattara takes his rightful place as president, Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said on Tuesday.
GENEVA (Reuters) - Libyans fleeing the advance of Muammar Gaddafi's forces on the rebel stronghold of Benghazi are crossing into Egypt in growing numbers, the United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt on Tuesday dissolved an internal security and spying agency whose reputation for brutality helped ignite the uprising that swept Hosni Mubarak from power last month.
CAIRO (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday began the highest-level visit to Egypt by a U.S. official since an uprising toppled President Hosni Mubarak, for decades a close ally of Washington.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali rebels briefly attacked an area bordering Kenya before retreating to the countryside where security sources on Tuesday said the militants were regrouping after a government-led offensive.
ZODRU, Liberia (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of refugees from violence in Ivory Coast are spilling across the border into Liberia, straining the food supplies of communities that barely have enough to eat at the best of times.
