BENGHAZI, Libya (AFP) - (AFP) - Libyan rebels on Sunday rejected an African Union peace plan, saying it would leave Moamer Kadhafi in power, as South Africa's president headed for talks in Russia on the conflict.
Dismissing the AU plan as not meeting even their basic demands, rebel spokesman Abdel Hafiz Ghoga said bluntly: "We have rejected it."
"It did not include the departure of [...]
TRIPOLI (AFP) - South African President Jacob Zuma met Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi for truce talks on Monday as NATO said the strongman's "reign of terror" was nearing its end and top military officers deserted him.
State news agency JANA said Zuma left the capital after a visit lasting several hours during which he met Kadhafi.
State television broadcast footage of Kadhafi welcom [...]
BENGHAZI, Libya (AFP) - Libyan rebels applauded a G8 call for Moamer Kadhafi to go ahead of a visit on Monday by South Africa's president for talks that officials said will focus on an "exit strategy" for the strongman.
"The entire world has reached a consensus that Colonel Kadhafi and his regime have not only lost their legitimacy but also their credibility," rebel leader Mustafa A [...]
DOHA (AFP) - Qatar striker Hussein Yasser says his team cannot be written off despite losing their opening Asian Cup match, citing the example of eventual winners Spain at the World Cup in South Africa.
The host nation allowed the pressure to get the better of them on Friday when they crashed 2-0 to Uzbekistan.
Yasser, one of his country's best-known players, who once had a stint with th [...]
ADEN, Yemen (AFP) - As many as 80 African migrants, mostly Ethiopians, were feared drowned after two boats capsized off the coast of south Yemen, the interior ministry said on Monday.
"The accident was caused by high winds and a tsunami which capsized the two boats taking them towards the coast," it said in a statement, quoting the coast guard in the southern port city of Aden.
One boat [...]
COTONOU (AFP) - Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Sunday promised his country would send humanitarian aid to flood-hit Benin as he visited the country as part of a West African tour.
"We are really touched by the numerous victims due to the floods in the country," Mottaki told AFP through a translator. "We are going to send a humanitarian shipment to Benin to contribute assis [...]
BEIRUT (AFP) - A Lebanese court on Tuesday sentenced to 20 years in prison the pilot of Beirut-bound UTA Flight 141, which crashed off the West African coast in 2003 killing at least 136 people, a judicial source said.
Libyan pilot Najib al-Barouni, who remains at large, was found guilty of neglect, the source told AFP.
Lebanese Darwish Khazem, a representative of the privately owned Leb [...]
SIRTE, Libya (AFP) - Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi warned on Sunday ahead of a vote on possible independence for south Sudan that a partition of the country would be a "contagious disease" that could spread to other African states.
Kadhafi was speaking at a one-day Arab-African summit that wrapped up its work by establishing a strategic partnership between Arab and African states in the [...]
CAIRO (AFP) - Human Rights Watch urged Egypt on Friday to stop shooting foreign migrants who try to cross into Israel, as the African country began chairing the United Nations' refugee agency.
The New York-based rights group said Egyptian border police have killed at least 85 unarmed migrants trying to cross into Israel since July 2007.
"Egypt today becomes chair of the UNHCR’s governin [...]
AMMAN (AFP) - Jordan on Sunday called on Al-Jazeera television to provide evidence that coverage of this year's World Cup was jammed from the kingdom, preventing millions from watching the games in South Africa.
"Al-Jazeera has kept its allegations and accusations that Jordan was behind the jamming, despite the kingdom's denial," a Jordanian official said in a statement.
"Jordan calls on Al-Ja [...]
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