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Riots erupt in the streets of Uganda's capital
Hundreds of angry protesters faced off with security police in the streets of Uganda's capital city of Kampala on Friday morning.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/TqYAXI0nOcY)
Source: Riots erupt in the streets of Uganda's capital (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/TqYAXI0nOcY/index.html)
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The Libyan government vowed Friday to sink any ship approaching the besieged port city of Misrata, essentially threatening NATO patrols and humanitarian aid ships that have been bringing in food and medical supplies and ferrying out refugees and the wounded(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/XK0HBiSU24o)
Source: Libyan government threatens aid ships heading for besieged port city (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/XK0HBiSU24o/index.html)
Thai and Cambodian troops exchanged gunfire near a disputed temple Saturday despite a cease-fire agreement between the two nations.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/dE1Kmf3aSRM)
Source: Thai, Cambodian troops break cease-fire (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/dE1Kmf3aSRM/index.html)
The United States is slamming the Sudanese president's assertion that his government would not recognize the new state of South Sudan if it claims the disputed oil-rich region of Abyei.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/gVsf2EDN1dc)
Source: U.S. envoy criticizes Sudanese president's remarks on Abyei (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/gVsf2EDN1dc/index.html)
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood will run candidates in about half of the Parliamentary seats in the September elections, the group announced Saturday.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/3IYN79GjTb8)
Source: Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood to run candidates for half of Parliament (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/3IYN79GjTb8/index.html)
Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye remained at a private hospital here on Saturday for treatment and observation following his arrest earlier this week, his sister said.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/qnO1Z3984MA)
Source: Ugandan opposition leader is in Kenya for medical treatment (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/qnO1Z3984MA/index.html)
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Source: The Gadhafi family (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/Bezcw9SAzNc/index.html)
Eyewitnesses in the embattled Libyan city of Misrata reported especially intense shelling by Moammar Gadhafi's forces overnight -- the heavy fire picking up at about the same time reports came out that one of the leader's son was killed in a NATO airstrike.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/IsdIlfXKBD4)
Source: Witnesses: Attacks intensify in Misrata, Benghazi after fatal strike (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/IsdIlfXKBD4/index.html)
One of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's sons -- Saif al-Arab Gadhafi -- was killed after a NATO airstrike, a spokesman for Libya's government said Sunday at a press conference.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/-8w9MQWDNMo)
Source: One of Gadhafi's sons killed in NATO airstrike, Libyan official says (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/-8w9MQWDNMo/index.html)
Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Sunday urged his supporters to prepare for an election he hoped regional leaders would monitor to ensure a credible result to help end the troubled coalition government.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/6ZV6_g5F-dw)
Source: Tsvangirai: Regional election monitors will ensure credibility (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/6ZV6_g5F-dw/index.html)
Government forces pounded rebel-held cities and crowds ransacked empty embassies in Tripoli on Sunday after Libyan authorities reported a NATO airstrike killed one of longtime strongman Moammar Gadhafi's sons and three of his grandchildren.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/2w7w-7HuSlI)
Source: Gunners pound rebels, embassies sacked after Gadhafi's son said killed (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/2w7w-7HuSlI/index.html)
Three of the international diplomatic community's most respected mediators arrived in the Ivory Coast Sunday to start a process of national reconciliation.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/i5mtVwH6kps)
Source: 3 top mediators to try to mend Ivory Coast (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/i5mtVwH6kps/index.html)
For 10 years, twice a week, Charles Muriuki has come to the same spot in downtown Nairobi to grieve and reflect. Each time, he sits on a park bench at a simple memorial and remembers his mother.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/J55BprACJYs)
Source: Son of Kenyan al Qaeda victim: 'Finally, the day has come' (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/J55BprACJYs/index.html)
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan Tuesday called for embattled Libyan President Moammar Gadhafi to step down.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/sGCth9JGll4)
Source: Turkish PM to Gadhafi: Leave power now (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/sGCth9JGll4/index.html)
Single mothers in Morocco are breaking records.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/bXqkTbmITcU)
Source: Study reveals alarming hike in unmarried mothers in Morocco (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/bXqkTbmITcU/index.html)
More than 8,000 people -- most of them women and children -- fled into Tunisia during the weekend to escape fighting between Libyan government troops and opposition forces, the U.N. High Commissioner on Refugees said Tuesday.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/0BO7vEMbTGE)
Source: Exodus of Libyans to Tunisia resumes (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/0BO7vEMbTGE/index.html)
A violent reaction by Ugandan authorities to ongoing protests against high food prices has put a spotlight on President Yoweri Museveni's 25-year rule over the East African country and raised the fear of a return to the brutal days of Idi Amin.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/wDJmATaUuao)
Source: Shadow of Idi Amin raised amid Ugandan crackdown on protests (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/wDJmATaUuao/index.html)
Togo's government Tuesday released provisional results of its first census in 29 years, taken in November.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/uJgkUDnmF0I)
Source: Togo releases results of first census in 29 years (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/uJgkUDnmF0I/index.html)
Abidjan, Ivory Coast (CNN) -- Heavy fighting continued Tuesday in Yopougon between forces loyal to President Alassane Ouattara and militiamen loyal to former President Laurent Gbagbo even as he was said to have accepted his loss of power.
The military operation was launched Monday by pro-Ouattara forces to crush the last pocket of resistance remaining after the militias turned down a call from Ouattara to disarm or face force.
The new violence erupted after a delegation of mediators led by former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan completed a two-day visit to Ivory Coast intended to encourage reconciliation and healing. Annan was joined by Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa and Mary Robinson, the former president of Ireland.
Their visit followed post-election violence that claimed the lives of hundreds of people and led nearly a million others to flee the city of Abidjan, according to aid groups.
"I was locked into my house for the past two weeks with no food to eat," said Sery Gregoire, a resident of Yopougon. "But this morning, we were able to escape."
Source: Fighting erupts in Ivory Coast over last pocket of resistance - CNN.com (http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/05/03/ivory.coast.violence/index.html).
The chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court said in a report Wednesday there are "reasonable grounds to believe that crimes against humanity have been committed and continue being committed in Libya."(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/REAvCesRU8M)
Source: Libyan leaders may face arrest warrants for alleged war crimes (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/REAvCesRU8M/index.html)
Wide-eyed youth watch as their commanders give step-by-step instruction on how to handle weapons -- most of the arms are twice as old as the young men who will use them.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/q8cHvz5LL8M)
Source: Libyan rebels: Training better but weapons still scarce (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/q8cHvz5LL8M/index.html)
Thousands of people streamed into Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday and chanted for unity across the Arab world, and a couple of hundred staged a pro-Osama bin Laden protest in front of the U.S. Embassy.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/GApF2U2ROyc)
Source: In Tahrir Square, Egyptians show support for other Arabs (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/GApF2U2ROyc/index.html)
The war against the illegal ivory trade resulted in the seizure of 115 pieces of elephant ivory at the airport in Nairobi, the Kenya Wildlife Service said Friday.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/hQFeC4VuyAk)
Source: Kenya finds Illegal ivory in boxes disguised as diplomatic baggage (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/hQFeC4VuyAk/index.html)
At least six people were killed and 120 injured in sectarian clashes outside a church in Cairo on Saturday, officials said.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/YPJ4-tSuIlw)
Source: At least 6 dead in Egyptian sectarian violence (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/YPJ4-tSuIlw/index.html)
Several hundred protesters were gathered in the center of Tunisia's capital Sunday as riot police stood guard.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/bX4mCAChvic)
Source: Protesters gather in Tunisia's capital after overnight curfew (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/bX4mCAChvic/index.html)
"Turn around, don't go."(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/qh_5M5qEbXY)
Source: Reporter's Notebook: Mere steps ahead of an angry Cairo mob (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/qh_5M5qEbXY/index.html)
Forensic experts have unearthed about 68 bodies from another cluster of mass graves in war-torn Ivory Coast, a United Nations spokeswoman said Monday.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/XUOdx4bh2po)
Source: U.N.: About 68 bodies found in more Ivory Coast mass graves (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/XUOdx4bh2po/index.html)
In 1993, during one of the worst days of the Burundi Civil War, one woman came to the rescue of 25 children and gave them hope for the future.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/n7IgdMF8C-E)
Source: War orphans turn tragedy into triumph (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/n7IgdMF8C-E/index.html)
NATO's leader confidently proclaimed on Sunday that Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's days are numbered, but he couldn't foresee how long the alliance's grinding mission to protect besieged civilians will last.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/WR_qBqbxtGc)
Source: NATO leader: 'Gadhafi's time is over' (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/WR_qBqbxtGc/index.html)
Benghazi, Libya (CNN) -- Inside the Intensive Care Unit at Benghazi Medical Center the injuries to the patients are horrendous. One patient has suffered a paralyzing bullet to the head, another is missing a left leg, has a broken right leg and is on a respirator, yet another has burns to his face and is barely conscious.
The maimed men are the latest arrivals in the Libyan rebel stronghold from the besieged city of Misrata -- the center of the most ferocious fighting between Colonel Moammar Gadhafi's forces and fighters trying to oust his government.
More than 800 people managed to get out of the city on the latest aid ship chartered by the International Organization for Migration.
Some were migrant workers, others extremely sick or wounded people who had no chance of survival if they stayed put.
"The ship was attempting to dock for two day but they could not. One day they were finally able to get in to get us. Some rushed to the ship but the rest of the wounded could not because the shelling was non-stop," Ibrahim Al-Neairy said.
Source: Wounded tell of hell in besieged Misrata - CNN.com (http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/05/09/libya.hell.city/index.html).
The Libyan regime is confining international journalists to a five star hotel in Tripoli called the Rixos.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/bhbhv54V2xU)
Source: Rebels exist but hiding in Gadhafi's capital (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/bhbhv54V2xU/index.html)
Rebel forces defending the Libyan city of Misrata from government troops are making "meter-by-meter" gains despite heavy shelling and rocket attacks, a Western journalist inside the city said Tuesday.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/gRrJOKWuYjA)
Source: Libyan rebels advancing 'meter by meter' in Misrata, witness reports (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/gRrJOKWuYjA/index.html)
In Tanzania, homeless boys living on the streets are seen by many residents as a menace, dangerous or trouble-makers.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/yuccQBRBX9Y)
Source: Former street children run luxury safari lodge (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/yuccQBRBX9Y/index.html)
Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye was barred from boarding a flight back home on Wednesday from the Kenyan capital, where he was undergoing treatment, an airline official said.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/M-u_XHrJhJ8)
Source: Opposition leader stopped from taking flight back to Uganda (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/M-u_XHrJhJ8/index.html)
Four rockets struck the compound belonging to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi Thursday, a Libyan government official told CNN.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/Y1cG8WTClDE)
Source: Rockets strike Gadhafi's compound (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/Y1cG8WTClDE/index.html)
Dozens of people were injured Thursday when supporters of opposition leader Kizza Besigye clashed with security forces and police who were accompanying his convoy from the airport to the capital.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/rx8C9CB0WYo)
Source: Dozens injured as opposition leader returns to Uganda (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/rx8C9CB0WYo/index.html)
A top Libyan opposition leader said Thursday the United States should recognize his group.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/KUkTXw4ZHNA)
Source: Leader of Libyan opposition group to ask White House for recognition (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/KUkTXw4ZHNA/index.html)
A ship arrived Thursday night in Benghazi from Misrata carrying at least 108 refugees, including 25 with war wounds, according to a spokeswoman for the International Committee of the Red Cross.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/6lRLpPSMTTI)
Source: More than 100 refugees from Misrata arrive in Benghazi (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/6lRLpPSMTTI/index.html)
For many young girls in Mali the reality of life is to stay at home and help with the housework or be sent to work in the gold mines.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/qhXDpd2ae3A)
Source: Mali's girls put education first (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/qhXDpd2ae3A/index.html)
Suzanne Mubarak, wife of toppled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, suffered a heart attack Friday after being questioned in a corruption investigation, the manager of the Sharm el-Sheikh Hospital said.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/FhbL6dubrp8)
Source: Egypt's former first lady said to have suffered a heart attack (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/FhbL6dubrp8/index.html)
The voice of embattled leader Moammar Gadhafi was heard on Libyan TV on Friday in an attempt to assure his people that he is alive and in a place where "you cannot kill me."(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/MEe2P8CLgbQ)
Source: Libyan TV broadcasts message from Gadhafi (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/MEe2P8CLgbQ/index.html)
More than 400 people fleeing Libya and Tunisia arrived overnight in an Italian island on Saturday, the latest in a stream of refugees escaping volatile and unstable North Africa.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/dVOJhteUcTE)
Source: More refugees fleeing Libya, Tunisia arrive in Italy (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/dVOJhteUcTE/index.html)
Shortly after dawn, an open blue wooden fishing boat from Libya limped its way into the port of this tiny island, crammed with at least 166 shivering passengers, all of them apparently migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/xQDKUobg1vU)
Source: Boat crammed with refugees from Libya reaches tiny Italian island (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/xQDKUobg1vU/index.html)
Zimbabwe's efforts to write a new constitution resumed Saturday after the two parties now sharing power reached an agreement on how to weigh comments gathered from the public, officials said.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/5t5oCkamgds)
Source: Dispute settled, Zimbabwe returns to preparing constitution (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/5t5oCkamgds/index.html)
A few hundred people gathered at a Tripoli cemetery Saturday to bury the alleged victims of a NATO airstrike in al-Brega a day earlier.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/IOzG175MyqM)
Source: Burials held in Tripoli for alleged victims of NATO airstrike (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/IOzG175MyqM/index.html)
Moammar Gadhafi is among three Libyans facing arrest warrants from the International Criminal Court for alleged crimes against humanity, an official with direct knowledge of the case told CNN Saturday.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/Zl5nJsC1SEE)
Source: Source: Gadhafi facing possible arrest warrant from court (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/Zl5nJsC1SEE/index.html)
Violence erupted in the Cairo neighborhood of Maspero when pro-Coptic protesters clashed with unidentified men, leaving at least two people dead and 60 injured, state TV reported early Sunday.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/3lgQCvwurOY)
Source: State TV: 2 dead and 60 injured in clashes involving Coptics in Cairo (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/3lgQCvwurOY/index.html)
Suzanne Mubarak, wife of toppled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, is expected to undergo open-heart surgery Sunday night, the manager of the Sharm el-Sheikh Hospital said.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/D-o3EPp3DLM)
Source: Egypt's former first lady set for heart surgery, hospital says (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/D-o3EPp3DLM/index.html)
After a firefight with suspected Somali pirates, Danish sailors freed 16 Iranian hostages on board an alleged mother ship, according to the Danish Royal Navy.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/xfa74_9P8P8)
Source: Danish Navy frees 16 Iranians from suspected Somali pirate ship (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/xfa74_9P8P8/index.html)
In one of Kenya's toughest slums solar-powered floodlights are letting youngsters play football late into the night, keeping them out of trouble and giving them hope for the future.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/DepeXr9u6NU)
Source: Solar-powered lights bring night football to slum (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/DepeXr9u6NU/index.html)
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court sought the arrest of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and two relatives Monday, linking them to "widespread and systematic" attacks on civilians as they struggle to hold power.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/PLpe2iISizk)
Source: Prosecutor requests arrest warrants for Gadhafi, 2 others (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/PLpe2iISizk/index.html)
A war crimes tribunal for Rwanda sentenced the African nation's former army chief to 30 years in prison Tuesday for his part in the 1994 genocide that killed 800,000 people.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/FXYnKDKymjA)
Source: Former Rwandan army chief gets 30 years for genocide (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/FXYnKDKymjA/index.html)
Cameroon's main opposition party would support young people if they stage protests against the government, the party's secretary general told CNN Wednesday in the latest indication of budding political unrest in the country.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/6k1A4KMAIuQ)
Source: Cameroon opposition party would back youth protests, leader says (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/6k1A4KMAIuQ/index.html)
Four journalists are free weeks after they were captured by the Libyan military despite originally being sentenced to jail for a year, a Libyan government spokesman said Wednesday.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/zSUZEi6CYE0)
Source: Libya frees 4 journalists originally sentenced to 1 year in jail (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/zSUZEi6CYE0/index.html)
Four journalists are free weeks after they were captured by the Libyan military and then sentenced to jail for a year, a Libyan government spokesman said Wednesday.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/Pm8dtvSX9Pg)
Source: Libya frees 4 journalists; Tunisia complains about Libyan rockets (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/Pm8dtvSX9Pg/index.html)
At least 840 people were killed and more than 6,000 injured during the Egyptian revolution earlier this year as then-President Hosni Mubarak clung to power through violence and intimidation, Amnesty International said in a report Thursday.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/ePseHMw5VrQ)
Source: Amnesty: Egypt far from justice over unrest that killed more than 800 (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/ePseHMw5VrQ/index.html)
NATO aircraft targeted warships overnight, striking eight of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's vessels in Tripoli's seaport, the organization said Friday morning. A Libyan government official said the targets included commercial vessels as well as military ones.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/tgirjYlkuFU)
Source: NATO aircraft target Tripoli's seaport (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/tgirjYlkuFU/index.html)
The family of South African freelance photojournalist Anton Hammerl, who has been missing in Libya since April, said late Thursday they now believe he was killed by Libyan government forces.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/dkZOJfa8HiM)
Source: Family: Photographer missing in Libya now believed dead (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/dkZOJfa8HiM/index.html)
Forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi have unleashed their biggest attack yet against a rebel stronghold in the mountains of western Libya, one of the Libyan leader's former generals said Friday.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/3l6MS7U1DGA)
Source: Fierce fighting in Libya's western mountains (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/3l6MS7U1DGA/index.html)
Over the past two days, Moammar Gadhafi's forces have unleashed their biggest attack yet against one of the mountainous rebel strongholds in western Libya, according to one of his former generals.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/fHikpj9cCCw)
Source: Rebels battle Gadhafi forces in Libyan mountains (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/fHikpj9cCCw/index.html)
A U.N. Security Council delegation arrived in Khartoum, Sudan, on Saturday to discuss with government officials the ongoing peace process in the country following a referendum in January that split the north from the south.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/w7d_az0cGM4)
Source: U.N. delegation arrives in Khartoum for government peace talks (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/w7d_az0cGM4/index.html)
At least 300 people were killed and 700 injured during the Tunisian uprising, a top U.N. human rights expert said Saturday.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/9vAod8WYMWc)
Source: About 300 people killed in original Tunisian uprising, U.N. reports (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/9vAod8WYMWc/index.html)
Alassane Ouattara was inaugurated Saturday as president of troubled Ivory Coast in a ceremony that marked a symbolic end to months of political turmoil.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/FxCxboSVW3U)
Source: Inauguration marks symbolic end to Ivory Coast's political turmoil (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/FxCxboSVW3U/index.html)
The man in front of me clasping a new satellite telephone tells me he has an urgent message. He's just received a call from his hometown warning him Moammar Gadhafi's forces are on the verge of overrunning it and he's desperate for NATO to do something about it.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/njT1-X255DI)
Source: Libyan begs NATO to save his small town (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/njT1-X255DI/index.html)
Sudan's military has taken control of the disputed oil-rich region of Abyei, the country's foreign ministry said Sunday.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/gMfZIFE_IbM)
Source: Sudan's military takes control of oil-rich region (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/gMfZIFE_IbM/index.html)
The U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda started special depositions on Monday in the case against the most prominent alleged perpetrator of the Rwandan genocide who remains at large: Felicien Kabuga.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/Bd6o3K08I9Q)
Source: Special depositions begin in Rwandan genocide case (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/Bd6o3K08I9Q/index.html)
President Barack Obama recently spoke of the December day a young Tunisian street vendor named Mohammed Bouazizi set himself on fire, in an act of hopelessness -- and purpose. His act sparked the Arab revolutions.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/aluGdZCHtY4)
Source: Facing the unknown in Tunisia (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/aluGdZCHtY4/index.html)
NATO aircraft launched more than a dozen strikes on the Libyan capital early Tuesday, and smoke could be seen rising from the area near Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's Bab-al-Azizia compound in Tripoli.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/cKiS_fikhn0)
Source: NATO aircraft pound Tripoli; government says 3 dead, 150 injured (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/cKiS_fikhn0/index.html)
Sharing a communal cell with 350 other prisoners, Ethiopian journalist Dawit Kebede spent 21 months in a crammed jail, losing his freedom for speaking his mind.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/iwIAdTLkSnY)
Source: Jailed journalist: 'I will never hesitate from criticizing' (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/iwIAdTLkSnY/index.html)
Zimbabwe's High Court ordered the immediate release Tuesday of six former army officers accused of plotting to topple President Robert Mugabe.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/UWD30lyUCHQ)
Source: Court orders release of alleged coup plotters in Zimbabwe (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/UWD30lyUCHQ/index.html)
CNN has won an Amnesty International Media award for its documentary World's Untold Stories: Locked up and Forgotten.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/4YYhLuN6D1Q)
Source: CNN documentary wins Amnesty International award (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/4YYhLuN6D1Q/index.html)
A barrage of at least 18 rockets struck Tripoli Tuesday, killing 19 people and wounding another 150 in the heaviest onslaught since NATO's aerial strikes began, a government official told CNN.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/zjbqcmgohG8)
Source: NATO aircraft pound Tripoli; U.S. envoy courts rebels (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/zjbqcmgohG8/index.html)
The Libyan opposition is not asking to be recognized as the "sole legitimate" authority in the country, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Tuesday, a day after meeting with opposition representative Abdel Rahman Shalgam.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/tqFrdt84E18)
Source: Libyan opposition wants only a place at negotiating table, Lavrov says (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/tqFrdt84E18/index.html)
President Jacob Zuma will visit Tripoli next week for talks with embattled Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, according to a statement on the South African leader's website.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/8QF0ok38-jE)
Source: South African president to meet Gadhafi next week (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/8QF0ok38-jE/index.html)
Explosions erupted in Tripoli for a second consecutive night Wednesday into Thursday morning as NATO jets struck a vocational secondary school, a Libyan government official said.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/UxeahsuED8w)
Source: Explosions erupt for second consecutive night in Tripoli (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/UxeahsuED8w/index.html)
A journalist who openly supported the Ivorian Popular Front of former President Laurent Gbagbo has been killed in a suburb of Abidjan, Reporters Without Borders said Wednesday.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/iCfN9_bpeu4)
Source: Reporters group condemns killing of Ivory Coast journalist (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/iCfN9_bpeu4/index.html)
Just who are the Africans who helped shape the Americas, and where did they come from?(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/gCWFuf9dTcU)
Source: Tracing the slaves who shaped America (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/gCWFuf9dTcU/index.html)
The office of Libya's prime minister sent a message to the Spanish government listing "a series of proposals that could lead to a ceasefire," a spokesman for Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said Thursday.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/I-YyDNC9blQ)
Source: Libya lists 'proposals' for ceasefire, Spain says (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/I-YyDNC9blQ/index.html)
Egypt will permanently open its Rafah border crossing into Gaza beginning Saturday, an Egyptian official reported Wednesday. The move provides Gazans with an open door to the outside world for the first time in four years.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/E7QdzOuRqmg)
Source: Egypt to open Gaza border crossing at Rafah (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/E7QdzOuRqmg/index.html)
Tensions remained high Thursday as the president of the Southern Sudanese government demanded an immediate withdrawal of Sudanese armed forces that continue to occupy the disputed oil-rich Abyei border region.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/m7OBNzghQgc)
Source: Thousands flee fighting in disputed Sudan border region (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/m7OBNzghQgc/index.html)
Another night of NATO airstrikes on the Libyan capital began late Thursday, with a tribal site near central Tripoli the target of the latest attacks, a Libyan official said.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/oEqc1DHcme8)
Source: New airstrikes pound Libya's capital (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/oEqc1DHcme8/index.html)
Mandarin Chinese isn't a language you would expect to hear on the streets of South African cities.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/mL0CSh8Z6oc)
Source: Parents hope learning Chinese is children's ticket to success (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/mL0CSh8Z6oc/index.html)
Three months after protests against Moammar Gadhafi began in Libya, the country seems to be grinding into a stalemated civil war.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/Yp81JYmUpFc)
Source: Libya: What you need to know (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/Yp81JYmUpFc/index.html)
In a room padded with foam and spray-painted with graffiti, the new sounds of rebellion in Libya are being broadcast online.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/QRLYedYKJiA)
Source: Libyan rebels air radio with a cause (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/QRLYedYKJiA/index.html)
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has joined American and other European leaders in calling for Moammar Gadhafi to step down from power, a shift that appears to indicate a closing diplomatic window for the longtime Libyan strongman.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/F2FeIwuQW88)
Source: In diplomatic shift, Russia calls for Gadhafi to step down (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/F2FeIwuQW88/index.html)
A robot explorer has revealed ancient markings inside a secret chamber at Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/t4HjfLMZUf4)
Source: Mysterious markings discovered at Great Pyramid of Giza (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/t4HjfLMZUf4/index.html)
A Cairo court has ordered the first ruling against Hosni Mubarak since he was ousted on February 11, fining him and his top officials more than $90 million for their role in cutting the mobile phone network and Internet service for five days.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/2oVLIVxY4oc)
Source: Egyptian court fines ousted government officials $90 million (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/2oVLIVxY4oc/index.html)
South African President Jacob Zuma is set to meet embattled Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi on Monday, his second visit to Tripoli since unrest started roiling the North African country.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/0Ma1yyiSlw4)
Source: South African leader to visit Gadhafi, push for cease-fire and talks (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/0Ma1yyiSlw4/index.html)
The head of Libya's opposition government told reporters Saturday he welcomed a call Friday by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev for Moammar Gadhafi to step down.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/1lhJjLM8VbM)
Source: Libyan opposition welcomes Russia's new position (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/1lhJjLM8VbM/index.html)
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, a Christian from the south, was sworn-in on Sunday as his country tries to bounce back from violence unleashed last month by an Islamist sect.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/NiJKVBOMLoQ)
Source: Nigerian president inaugurated weeks after violence (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/NiJKVBOMLoQ/index.html)
Two more blasts struck Nigeria on Monday, bringing the total to five since President Goodluck Jonathan was inaugurated Sunday.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/R868uQgq4DA)
Source: 5 blasts strike Nigeria following president's inauguration (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~3/R868uQgq4DA/index.html)