20110210
presstv
Medical staffs in Cairo's largest hospital, Qasr al-Aini, have joined hundreds of thousands of Egyptian protesters to demand an end to President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year-old rule.

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presstv
An Egyptian activist says several Egyptian army officers and soldiers have warned the military that they will no longer shoot protesters, instead they will shoot the commanders.

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presstv
The Egyptian military has sent large column of tanks, supported by 30,000-strong-mechanized infantry to the streets in Cairo, preparing for massive crackdown on Friday's "Day of Massive Protest March."

20110210
presstv
Revolution has entered its 17th consecutive day in Egypt, despite massive crackdown on demonstrators in the past two days which left more than a hundred people killed or wounded.

20110208
africanews

The crop of home-based players of the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon, flying the nation's flag at the on-going African Nations Championship in Sudan have started the competition on a good note. The Cameroonian team thrashed their counterparts from the DR Congo two nil at the El Merriekh stadium in Oumduman, Sudan.

20110208
africanews

Achilles Byaruhanga is now Executive Director of Nature Uganda, which is striving for the well-being of natural resources. When he was at his early days, he used to herd cows as many of his village colleagues. Thus, waking up early to deploy the caws and getting back home late evening were daily activities of Byaruhanga.

20110208
africanews

It was a display of the rich cultural heritage of the Otuoke community in the oil rich Bayelsa State of Nigeria when the highest chieftaincy title to be given to a woman was bestowed on Dame Patience Jonathan, wife of President Goodluck Jonathan at a ceremony attended by dignitaries from many parts of the country.

20110208
africanews

As Africa prepares to welcome the birth of a new country, military tensions have been on the rise among the new Joint Integerated Units (JIUs) deployed to the volatile town of Abyei during the last couple of days as northern Sudan JIU elements reject any attempt to relocate them northward.

20110208
africanews

On the heels of a new media law that gives power to the minister of information and civic education to ban any publication deemed to be operating contrary to the "wishes" of the people, police arrested a journalist last Sunday. Award winning journalist, Kondwani Kamiyala, was picked taking photographs of the law enforcers administering police brutality during a musical show.

20110208
xinhua

LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (Reuters) - The defence lawyer for former Liberian president Charles Taylor defied the Sierra Leone war crimes court on Tuesday, walking out in protest ahead of closing arguments in the case and calling it a farce.

20110208
xinhua

HARARE (Reuters) - Police have arrested more than a dozen youths after a mob looted shops in Harare, and the two main parties in Zimbabwe's uneasy unity government traded accusations over who was to blame for a spate of violence.

20110208
xinhua

CAIRO (Reuters) - The mass revolt against President Hosni Mubarak's rule has shaken the civilian pillars of his rule: the police force, the ruling party and state media.

20110208
xinhua

ROME/LONDON (Reuters) - Pirates firing guns and rocket propelled grenades hijacked an Italian oil tanker in the Indian Ocean on Tuesday and diverted the medium-sized vessel towards Somalia, Italian Navy and European Union officials said.

20110208
xinhua

TUNIS (Reuters) - Gunshots were fired in the centre of the Tunisian capital on Tuesday, people in the area said, in a new blow to faltering efforts to restore security after the overthrow of the autocratic president.

20110208
xinhua

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - A fire that engulfed at least three floors of Ivory Coast's multi-storey Treasury building on Tuesday was later put out, according to witnesses, and officials said no key files were damaged.

20110208
xinhua

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa intends to create a 10 billion rand fund to tackle massive unemployment in Africa's biggest economy, the ANC's Secretary General Gwede Mantashe told Reuters on Tuesday.

20110208
xinhua

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Nationalising South Africa's mines is "not the option", mines minister Susan Shabangu said on Tuesday in her strongest comments in a year against an idea that has unnerved investors in Africa's biggest economy.

20110208
xinhua

ABUJA (Reuters) - South Africa's decision to deploy a navy vessel to Ivory Coast is complicating efforts to bring a peaceful resolution to the country's post-election crisis, the West African regional bloc ECOWAS said on Tuesday.

20110208
xinhua

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptians staged one of their biggest protests yet on Tuesday demanding President Hosni Mubarak step down now, their wrath undiminished by the vice president's announcement of a plan to transfer power.

20110207
xinhua

KHARTOUM, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- With the announcement of the final results of the south Sudan referendum that lead to the separation of the region, the relationship between north and south Sudan entered a new phase amid challenges and barriers that would test the peace between north and south Sudan.