African News Update – Egypt FA Will Not Apologise To Algeria For World Cup Qualifying Incidents (Goal.com)

Egypt FA Will Not Apologise To Algeria For World Cup Qualifying Incidents (Goal.com)
The Egyptian FA chairman Samir Zaher has said that the federation has no intentions to apologise to Algeria for failing to prevent their team’s bus from being stoned ahead of the controversial World Cup qualifier back in November.

Ethiopian envoy joins battle between Bob Geldof and BBC World Service (Guardian Unlimited)
The row between Bob Geldof and the BBC escalated into a diplomatic dispute yesterday as the Ethiopian ambassador called for an apology from the World Service after it reported claims that aid money meant for famine victims had been spent on weapons.

RICHARD DOWDEN: ‘Get real, Bob – buying guns might have been better than buying food’ (Daily Mail)
But even by his own colourful standards Bob Geldof went absolutely ballistic last week over claims that some of the money he raised through Live Aid in the Eighties might have been diverted to buy guns.

Ethiopia slams US rights report (Gulf Times)
Ethiopia yesterday slammed the US for a report that criticised its human rights record, claiming that it demonstrated “serious intellectual deficiencies”.

Ethiopia slams US rights report (AFP via Yahoo! Canada News)
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) – Ethiopia on Saturday slammed the United States for a report that criticised its human rights record, claiming that it demonstrated “serious intellectual deficiencies”.

Algeria to host regional terror conference on Tuesday (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Algeria is to host foreign ministers from the Sahara and Sahel on Tuesday for talks on fighting “a resurgence” in acts of terror, the Algerian Foreign Ministry said Saturday.

Morocco Expels Christian Evangelists (Boise Weekly)
The Moroccan government today deals harshly with whoever allows themselves to manipulate the religion of the people.” by Solana Pyne, GlobalPost Solana Pyne, GlobalPost RABAT, Morocco For 10 years, foreign Christians ran an orphanage called Village of Hope on the slopes of Moroccos Middle Atlas Mountains, taking in abandoned Moroccan children and raising them in their homes. But it took just a …

Defar wins fourth straight indoor 3000m title (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Ethiopian Meseret Defar won a record fourth consecutive women’s world indoor 3000m title on Saturday.

Death toll rises, civilians flee from Mogadishu’s renewed violence (People’s Daily)
The fighting of the past days in the Somali capital Mogadishu has claimed the lives of more than 100 and wounded 150 others with thousands of civilians uprooted from their homes, analysts say. The Mogadishu fighting erupted Wednesday after weeks of speculation of a major Somali government offensive on rebel forces who control substantial parts of the capital. Most of the clashes center around …

Interview with Abraham Verghese (San Francisco Chronicle)
Abraham Verghese’s moving and richly detailed epic novel “Cutting for Stone,” published last year, tells of the lives of Ethiopian twins whose fates remain forever intertwined – despite the diverging journeys the two men, both surgeons, take. Verghese’s first…

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