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  • Egypt to try 19 Americans
    Ignoring a US threat to cut off aid, Egypt has referred 19 Americans and 24 other employees of non-profit groups to trial before a criminal court on accusations they illegally used foreign funds to foment unrest in the country.

  • Libya postpones Gaddafi loyalists trial
    Libya started and then swiftly postponed court proceedings against 41 Libyans accused of helping Muammar Gaddafi crush the popular revolt that ended in his death.

  • Kidnappers free US tourists in Egypt
    Two American women and their Egyptian tour guide, who were captured by armed Bedouins in the Sinai peninsula, have been released unharmed.

  • Gas pipeline bombed
    Saboteurs have blown up a pipeline that supplies gas to Israel, the 12th such attack in a year.

  • Egypt gets jail hospital ready for Mubarak
    Egypt's interior minister has ordered Cairo's Tora prison hospital to make preparations to receive former President Hosni Mubarak, who has till now been held in a military hospital.

  • Zimbabwe proposed paper ban slammed
    Press freedom organisations have denounced plans by the Zimbabwe media controller to have some foreign newspapers banned, ahead of possible elections this year.

  • Tuareg rebellion - 15 000 flee Mali
    Aid workers say 15 000 refugees have fled from Mali to Niger, and Mauritania amid the rebellion by Tuaregs.

  • Libya puts Gaddafi loyalists on trial
    Libya has put 41 loyalists of dead dictator Muammar Gaddafi on trial in the first legal proceedings launched against members of the former regime which was ousted after a bloody conflict.

  • Morocco king pardons jailed Islamists
    Morocco's King Mohammed issued pardons to several leading Islamists who rights groups say were unfairly jailed, signalling a less hard-line approach after moderate Islamists came to power in an election last year.

  • Egypt clashes continue into 4th day
    Protesters and police have fought pitched battles at security headquarters in Cairo as deadly clashes raged into a fourth day and the interior minister leapt to the defence of his reviled forces.

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