Egypt Shares Post Biggest 2-Day Gain Since December on Mubarak (Bloomberg)
March 17 (Bloomberg) — Egypt stocks advanced, pushing the benchmark index to the biggest two-day gain since December, after the country s president appeared on television for the first time since a surgery earlier this month.
Libya Oil Head: OPEC Has Agreed To Keep Output Quotas Unchanged (Fox News)
Libya Oil Head: OPEC Has Agreed To Keep Output Quotas Unchanged
‘Quiet corruption’ hurting Africa’s poor
A World Bank report says teachers and other public servants who don’t show up for work are fuelling “quiet corruption” throughout Africa that is disproportionately hurting the continent’s poor.
VIDEO: Mubarak in ‘good spirits’
Egyptian television aired footage of President Hosni Mubarak for the first time since his March 6 surgery in Germany.
French hostage freed after abduction by North Africa’s al-Qaida offshoot (Sun-Sentinel)
PARIS (AP) The office of France’s president says a French hostage who was held captive in Mali for three months by Al-Qaida’s North Africa offshoot has been freed.
Nigeria should be split, says Libyan leader
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi says nothing will stop the ethnic violence in Nigeria except splitting the oil-rich nation into Muslim and Christian states.
Al-Qaida growing in strength and numbers in Africa (3news)
Al-Qaida’s terror network in North Africa is growing more active and attracting new recruits.
LUNA SEEKS FOURTH MOROCCAN SUCCESS (Sporting Life)
Spain’s Santiago Luna is understandably over the moon about the Hassan Trophy in Morocco becoming part of the European Tour this week.
Race for spots on European Ryder Cup team hits halfway in Morocco (PGA)
RABAT, Morocco — The race for places on the 2010 European Ryder Cup team reaches the halfway point this week as the European Tour makes its first visit to Morocco in nine years.
Sahara states say agree joint action against Qaeda (Deepika)
ALGIERS, Mar 17 (Reuters) Sahara desert states struggling to contain a growing threat from al Qaeda agreed to put aside their differences and hammer out practical ways to fight the insurgents, an Algerian official said.
Al-Qaida adds strength, numbers in Africa (Deseret News)
WASHINGTON Al-Qaida’s terror network in North Africa is growing more active and attracting new recruits, threatening…
Libya welcomes call for Gaddafi damages (The Scotsman)
LIBYA has welcomed as a “step forward” a call by Swiss officials for damages to be paid to a son of Libyan leader Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi over his arrest in 2008.
