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Egypt court overrules president over parliament

YoopyaJul 11, 20120

(Reuters) – Egypt’s Islamist-led parliament reconvened on Tuesday in an open challenge to the generals who dissolved it last month. The supreme court swiftly ruled

Libya’s Jibril extends lead in latest vote tallies

YoopyaJul 11, 20120

(Reuters) – Libya’s wartime prime minister Mahmoud Jibril extended his lead in the North African country’s landmark elections, partial vote tallies showed on Wednesday, as

Mali Islamists destroy tombs at famous Timbuktu mosque

YoopyaJul 11, 20120

(Reuters) – Islamist militants destroyed two tombs on Tuesday at the famous 14th century Djingareyber mosque in Timbuktu, classified by UNESCO as a world heritage

Kenyan Christians pray targetted attacks end

YoopyaJul 10, 2012September 12, 20230

(Reuters) – Kenyan Christians fear they are being targetted by militant Islamists, perhaps to avenge the country’s military incursion inside Somalia, but vowed on Sunday

Congo warlord jailed for 14 years in landmark case

YoopyaJul 10, 20120

(Reuters) – Delivering its first sentence, the International Criminal Court jailed Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga Dyilo for 14 years on Tuesday for recruiting child soldiers.

Special Report: In South Sudan, a state of dependency

YoopyaJul 10, 2012July 10, 20120

(Reuters) – The world’s newest nation relies on oil to finance 98 percent of its budget. So when the government decided to shut off crude

Malawi food crisis deepens on weak economy: report

YoopyaJul 9, 20120

BLANTYRE (Reuters) – The number of people needing food aid to survive in Malawi increased last year when the destitute southern African state’s economy hit

Mubarak’s sons back in court on graft charges

YoopyaJul 9, 20120

By Yasmine Saleh and Dina Zayed CAIRO (Reuters) – A judge in Egypt threw out pleas for the release of former president Hosni Mubarak’s two

Special Report: For the world’s newest nation, a rocky start

YoopyaJul 9, 20120

(Reuters) – In December, the people of this town watched the national army stand by while thousands of young men from a rival ethnic group

Libya’s Jibril urges grand coalition ahead of results

YoopyaJul 9, 20120

(Reuters) – Libya’s wartime rebel prime minister Mahmoud Jibril called for the some 150 political parties in the North African nation to back the creation