Ulf Laessing

Economic uncertainty has gripped Nigeria as promised reforms fail to materialise

Prime Minister Ahmed Maiteeq has been deemed unconstitutional by Libya’s Supreme Court, and the country’s rebels have approved of the decision.

A former rebel group, affiliated with the Libyan government, has freed Prime Minister Ali Zeidan after capturing him in Tripoli.

A group of former Libyan rebels says it has seized Prime Minister Ali Zeidan due to his government’s role in the US capture of a top al-Qaeda suspect.

A failed raid in Somalia and anger at the capture of an al-Qaeda leader in Libya has focused on the US’s problems in its fight against militants.

Sudan said it had arrested a Briton, a Norwegian and a South African on Saturday, accusing them of illegally entering a oil-producing border area.

Libya’s rebels are offering a bounty for Muammar Gaddafi, after a former ally said he was probably heading for the border — in women’s clothing.

A son of Muammar Gaddafi who rebels said they had captured made a surprise appearance with jubilant supporters in Tripoli overnight.

Remnants of forces still loyal to Muammar Gaddafi staged a desperate stand in Tripoli on Tuesday as rebels fought their way into the capital.

Muammar Gaddafi has urged Libyans to take up arms and crush an uprising in Tripoli as rebel troops closed on the capital for a final onslaught.

For the southern Sudanese it was a night to stay out dancing. For people in Khartoum it was a time of sadness mixed with defiance.

More than 15 000 people have fled Sudan’s Abyei region to Agok in the south after the northern army seized the disputed area, the UN has said.

A security clampdown in the Riyadh kept a lid on a planned day of rage, while police in Kuwait and Bahrain appeared to deflate demonstrators’ zeal.

A ceasefire in northern Yemen has calmed a conflict that drove thousands of people from their homes, but bloody images still haunt Ali Nasser.