Egyptians voted for a second day in a presidential runoff pitting Hosni Mubarak’s last prime minister against a conservative Islamist.

Egyptians have been hit by an increasingly acute petrol shortage, which the government has blamed on black market sales of fuel.

A year after Libya’s uprising against Muammar Gaddafi, its militias continue to hold influence with corruption, violence and anarchy.

Libya’s National Transitional Council has proposed a draft law for electing an assembly to draft the country’s new constitution.

Rights groups have denounced the startling show of force in the raids on 10 organisations and accused Egypt’s generals of trying to silence critics.

Rebel sympathisers, driven underground in Tripoli, have resorted to furtive protests such as writing "No" next to pro-government graffiti.

From the east and west, working with Nato air strikes, resurgent rebels have battled Libyan government forces at flashpoints along the Mediterranean.

Rebels battled their way back into a major oil port just 50km west of Tripoli on Saturday, forcing Muammar Gaddafi’s troops to close the highway.

It started with a Christian woman who wanted a divorce to marry her Muslim lover, and found no other way to do so but to convert to Islam.

Cairo was the scene of violent chaos on Friday, when tens of thousands of anti-government protesters stoned and confronted police.

Leaders and officials from more than 50 African states convened a summit on Friday aimed to discuss security strategies for a trouble-plagued continent, with Libyan leader…