Regional News

Suicide car bomb kills 11 in Somalia

09 Feb 2012, 7:04AM

At least 11 people have been killed by a suicide bomber in Somalia's capital Mogadishu when an explosive-laden vehicle was detonated. Read more

Police and protesters clash in Senegal

09 Feb 2012, 6:27AM

Clashes have erupted between security forces and protesters in Senegal ahead of a campaign rally by the country's ageing president. Read more

Twin bomb blasts rock Nigeria

07 Feb 2012, 9:42AM

Gunmen blew up a police station and shot one officer in Nigeria's flashpoint city of Kano on as blasts rocked a market in Maiduguri, the base of the Boko Haram Islamists, police said.
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• Fresh blast strikes Nigeria's Kano
• Nigeria arrests 200 after Kano attacks
• Factbox: Nigeria's Boko Haram

Fossil find could be world's first animals

06 Feb 2012, 11:01PM

Tiny fossils in rocks more than 550 million years old are claimed to be the first animals, and could push emergence of animals back millions of years. Read more

First trial of Gaddafi loyalists held

06 Feb 2012, 1:00PM

Libya has put 41 loyalists of dead dictator Muammar Gaddafi on trial in the first legal proceedings launched against members of the former regime.
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• Libya militias 'torturing detainees'
• Gaddafi loyalists attack Libyan towns
• 'Civil war' claims if Libyan NTC quits

Three die in Egypt clashes over riot

04 Feb 2012, 11:50AM

Three people have died as protesters took to the streets of Cairo angry the police failed to prevent a deadly soccer riot days earlier. Read more

• More deaths in Egypt street clashes
• Egypt announces three days of mourning

UN declares Somalia famine over

03 Feb 2012, 5:25PM

Famine conditions have ended in war-torn Somalia six months after they were first declared, but the situation remains dire with nearly a third of the population needing emergency support, the UN said. 
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Two shot dead in Egypt violence

03 Feb 2012, 1:50PM

Two men were killed as Egyptian police and protesters clashed in the northeastern city of Suez, medical sources said, amid growing anger over the deaths of 74 people in post-football violence. Read more

Egypt announces three days of mourning

02 Feb 2012, 8:52PM

Egypt's ruling military council has announced three days of mourning after at least 74 die in clashes between fans of rival football teams. Read more

FIFA condemns deadly Egypt football riots

02 Feb 2012, 12:37PM

At least 74 people were killed and the army deployed after sport fan violence in the Egyptian city of Port Said, in what FIFA called a 'black day for football.' Read more

• Egypt football clash
• Egypt football clashes spark riot fears
• Scores killed in Egypt soccer violence

Students clash with police in Senegal

02 Feb 2012, 7:50AM

Unrest is continuing in Senegal as college students protest against the continued rule of 85-year-old president Abdoulaye Wade. Read more

Scores killed in Egypt football violence

02 Feb 2012, 6:53AM

At least 50 people were killed after a soccer pitch invasion in the Egyptian city of Port Said, health ministry sources said, raising the official estimate of the death count from 25. Read more

• Egypt football clash

Gabon downs Tunisia: Sport in Brief

01 Feb 2012, 4:06PM

All the action from the African Cup of Nations as well as the battle between the Manchester clubs at the top of the EPL.
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• Sport in Brief - Wednesday

Egyptian MPs challenge military rulers

01 Feb 2012, 9:59AM

MPs have accused Egypt's military rulers of overstepping their authority by issuing a law that lays out rules for the election of a president. Read more

• Eqyptian blogger released from prison
• Egypt to lift emergency rule
• Victory for Egypt’s Islamists in elections