Egypt's Mubarak gets 3 years for graft
A Cairo court convicted ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak of embezzlement on Wednesday, sentencing him to three years in prison.
South Africa's gold miners set to strike
2011-07-28 10:17Tens of thousands South African gold miners will down tools on Thursday, intensifying a wave of strikes and potentially costing the gold mining sector $25 million a day in lost output.
Libya: UK embassy closure illegal
2011-07-28 09:32Libya's government said on Wednesday that Britain's explusion of its diplomats and recognition of the rebel council was illegal and irresponsible.
Britain to expel all Libyan embassy staff
2011-07-27 19:46Britain will expel all Libyan embassy staff to increase pressure on Libyan leader Gaddafi's regime, local media reported on Wednesday.
SAfrican man wakes in morgue fridge
2011-07-26 09:19A South African man awoke to find himself in a morgue fridge _ nearly a day after his family thought he had died, a health official said.
UN sets donors conference for Somalia famine
2011-07-26 09:16Efforts to save starving Somalis and others suffering from drought in East Africa were ratcheted up Monday, with UN agencies pitching for $1.6 billion from donor countries and private companies being urged to provide trucks, ships and other logistical aid to speed food to the malnourished.
Fuel scarce in Misrata after rocket hits depot
2011-07-26 09:02Rebel-held Misrata was running short of fuel on Monday as a fire raged at a storage depot hit by a rocket from Libyan government forces.
Children abandoned on E Africa's 'roads of death'
2011-07-26 08:56Desperate Somali mothers are abandoning their dying children by the roadside as they travel to overwhelmed emergency food centres in drought-hit eastern Africa, UN aid officials said on Monday.
S African man wakes after 21 hrs in morgue fridge
2011-07-26 08:40A South African man awoke to find himself in a morgue fridge - nearly a day after his family thought he had died, a health official said Monday.
6.4-magnitude quake hits New Ireland region
2011-07-25 10:51An earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale jolted New Ireland region, Papua New Guinea at 8:50 am Beijing Time Monday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center.
Clashes leave 296 injured in Egypt
2011-07-25 07:50The number of people injured in clashes during Saturday's protests in Cairo rose to 296, official MENA news agency said on Sunday.
North Sudan to launch new currency
2011-07-24 17:52Sudan will start circulating its new currency on Sunday, the central bank said, days after South Sudan started rolling out a currency of its own.
Libya wants more talks amid NATO strikes
2011-07-23 21:00Libya is ready to hold more talks with the United States and with rebels trying to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi, but the Libyan leader will not bow to demands he quit, a government spokesman said.
