Fighters loyal to Libya’s interim government are battling for full control of Muammar Gaddafi’s birthplace where diehards are holed up.
Libyan rebel chief Mustafa Abdel Jalil says "the end is very near" for Moammar Gadaffi and that it will be "catastrophic".
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/ 1 February 2011
A high-level panel named by the African Union faces an uphill battle in agreeing a unified stand on Côte d’Ivoire’s political crisis.
It was business as usual as the AU’s two-day summit stuck to its planned schedule, despite the problems in Tunisia, Egypt, Sudan and Côte d’Ivoire.
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/ 27 January 2011
African leaders will try to bridge their divide over the crisis in Côte d’Ivoire as they meet for a summit this weekend.
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/ 29 September 2010
The draft UN mapping report detailing crimes by armed forces in the DRC is an inventory of atrocities committed with impunity over a 10-year period.
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/ 22 September 2010
After a worrying setback when their Somali government allies deserted their posts, AU troops in Mogadishu managed to contain the situation.
Up to half of the food aid intended for needy Somalis is routinely diverted, according to a United Nations report.
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/ 29 January 2010
VIPs on Friday feted the first year of Somali President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed’s shaky rule as fighting rocked a theatre where they were gathered.
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/ 14 September 2009
In the space of a month, Yoweri Museveni’s 23-year-old grip on Uganda appears to have been rattled by deadly riots and the return of a major rival.