South Sudan facing refugee crisis
Source: Al Jazeera English
Umm Durmān :: Sudan | updated 2012-05-19 18:21:20 -0700 | technology-news
24 Fighting in Sudan's South Kordofan has displaced hundreds of thousands of people, with growing numbers fleeing across the border into neighbouring South Sudan. Refugee camps in remote areas are in desperate need of humanitarian aid. Tens of thousands now live...
US hails Qaddafi spymaster's arrest
Source: NOW Lebanon
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2012-05-19 23:24:44 -0700 | political-news
The United States on Monday welcomed news of the arrest in Mauritania of late Libyan strongman Moammar Qaddafi's former spy chief but sidestepped a feud on to where he should be extradited. Abdullah Senussi, long one of Libya's most feared...
The ‘Phoenicia’ – Hannibal Gaddafi’s luxury cruise liner with live sharks on board
Posted by: prabirghose
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2012-07-27 22:58:40 -0700 | travel-news
Hannibal, the 4th son of Col Gaddafi, was a man with an affinity for water. A trained seaman, he was the in-charge of Libya’s Maritime industry. 36-year old Hannibal Gaddafi was planning to own a dream luxury cruise liner 'Phoenicia'...
Like something out of James Bond: Inside Gaddafi's son's ship of sharks
Source: Mail Online UK
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2012-05-18 06:59:50 -0700 | political-news
17 March 2012 An imposing glass tank to house six pet sharks on board a luxury ship is the kind of feature normally associated with a villain from a James Bond film. But the attraction shown here for the first...
Guinea-Bissau polls due to open
Source: BBC
Bissau :: Guinea Bissau | updated 2012-05-18 06:59:46 -0700 | political-news
Voters in Guinea-Bissau go to the polls shortly to elect a new president to replace Malam Bacai Sanha, who died in January following a long illness. Nine candidates are running for office, but analysts say only four have a fighting...
Air NZ discovers cracks in plane
Source: Wellington Dominion
Wellington :: New Zealand | updated 2012-05-18 01:57:30 -0700 | political-news
35 18/03/2012 Air New Zealand has grounded its regional ATR fleet for inspections after cracks were found around the cockpit windows of one aircraft...The planes are operated by Air New Zealand subsidiary Mt Cook Airlines. A media statement said one...
Gaddafi's espionage chief 'held'
Source: BBC
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2012-06-17 14:22:48 -0700 | political-news
The intelligence chief of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has been arrested in Mauritania, reports say. News reports said Abdullah al-Senussi was detained at Nouakchott airport. Mr Senussi was Col Gaddafi's brother-in-law, and has been described as a confidant.
German Embassy closes visa section in Malawi
Posted by: ProfessorMaganga
Lilongwe :: Malawi | updated 2012-03-17 12:18:00 -0700 | travel-news
Malawians have expressed concern with news that the German Embassy will stop processing Visas in Malawi for people travelling to Germany month end. A Statement from the German Embassy in Malawi’s capital Lilongwe has disclosed that Malawians wishing to travel...
Clooney calls attention to Sudan crisis
Source: SF Gate
Khartoum :: Sudan | updated 2012-05-17 15:51:04 -0700 | political-news
Win McNamee / Getty Images Actor George Clooney (L) and his father journalist Nick Clooney (2nd R) are arrested during a demonstration outside the Embassy of Sudan March 16, 2012 in Washington, DC. United to End Genocide, the Enough Campaign...
UN-backed Congolese army drive could displace 100,000 people, analysts warn
Source: The Observer
Brazzaville :: Congo | updated 2012-05-16 09:34:54 -0700 | political-news
Supporters of Joseph Kabila in Goma, the capital of North Kivu. Kabila has not been seen in public for two months and a new government has yet to be formed. Photograph: AFP UN peacekeeping troops are backing a Congolese army...
Clooney, others to protest at Sudanese Embassy
Source: Charlotte Observer Online
Khartoum :: Sudan | updated 2012-05-17 00:42:43 -0700 | entertainment-news
Actor George Clooney is highlighting a protest planned at the Sudanese Embassy in Washington. The protesters accuse Sudan's president, Omar al-Bashir, of provoking a humanitarian crisis and blocking food and aid from entering the Nuba Mountains in the county's border...
Eritrea 'rejects Ethiopia ploy'
Source: BBC
Addis Ababa :: Ethiopia | updated 2012-05-16 14:37:00 -0700 | political-news
Eritrea 'rejects Ethiopia provocation' Ethiopian troops are also currently active in Somalia Eritrea has said it will not be "entrapped" into retaliating after Ethiopia launched a cross-border border raid on three military bases. "It is those who do not know...
Ethiopian Troops Enter Eritrea
Source: Newyork Times
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2012-05-16 04:30:26 -0700 | political-news
Somalia Ethiopian forces have stormed into Eritrea , the Ethiopian government announced on Thursday, attacking several militant bases and stirring new tensions between the two archrivals. The Ethiopian and Eritrean governments used to be close allies and comrades in arms,...
Armed Bedouins enter Sinai peace force camp
Source: Arab News
Cairo :: Egypt | updated 2012-05-15 18:24:55 -0700 | political-news
Armed Bedouins have entered a military base used by international peacekeepers in Egypt's Sinai region to pressure local authorities to release fellow tribesmen from jail, security and tribal sources said on Thursday. Sinai Bedouin complain of unfair treatment and government...
80-year old grandma of Cape Town honored with a safe-driving award
Posted by: prabirghose
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2012-07-27 23:00:57 -0700 | travel-news
Hazel Souma is 80 year old grandmother of Cape Town. She had received her driving license 62-years earlier has an unblemished driving record. The Transport Minister Sibusiso Ndebele has said that hers is a ‘sterling example’ of safe driving He...
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