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AU to take Mali to UN Security Council

YoopyaMay 31, 20120

By John Irish PARIS (Reuters) – The African Union plans to refer the situation in Mali to the United Nations Security Council so that it

Former Liberian leader Taylor jailed for 50 years

YoopyaMay 30, 2012June 19, 20230

By Thomas Escritt and Anthony Deutsch THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Former Liberian President Charles Taylor was jailed for 50 years on Wednesday for helping Sierra Leonean

War criminal Charles Taylor faces sentencing

kiemtarMay 30, 20120

Victims of Sierra Leone’s civil war await news from The Hague today where convicted war criminal Charles Taylor is to receive his sentence. Sento Thoronka is

Nigeria to send oil law to parliament in June

YoopyaMay 29, 20120

ABUJA (Reuters) – The latest draft of the Nigerian Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) put together by a task force set up by President Goodluck Jonathan

Blast rocks Kenyan capital, more than 30 hurt

YoopyaMay 29, 20120

By Humphrey Malalo and Njuwa Maina NAIROBI (Reuters) – An explosion tore through a shopping complex in Nairobi’s business district during Monday’s lunch hour, wounding

Egyptians torch Shafiq HQ as vote triggers violence

YoopyaMay 29, 20120

By Tom Perry and Ahmed Tolba CAIRO (Reuters) – Demonstrators furious that Hosni Mubarak’s last prime minister made it into the run-off for Egypt’s presidential

Tensions flare as Egyptian revolutionaries lament election results

kiemtarMay 29, 20120

ELEANOR HALL: Protestors torched the headquarters of one of Egypt’s leading presidential candidates overnight, as the official announcement of the results of the first round

Sudan’s Bashir ready to pull troops from Abyei: Carter

YoopyaMay 28, 20120

KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudan’s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir has said he is ready to pull troops from a disputed border area with South Sudan, former

Mali Tuaregs, Islamist rebels agree to merge, create new state

kiemtarMay 27, 20120

Mali’s Tuareg rebel National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) and Ansar Dine Islamist militants have agreed to merge and create an independent Islamic

Muslim Brotherhood seeks unity ahead of Egypt runoff

YoopyaMay 26, 20120

By Tom Perry and Marwa Awad CAIRO (Reuters) – The Muslim Brotherhood is reaching out to rivals including politicians knocked out of the presidential race