Saturday, 23 July 2011

Bomb rocks troubled northeastern Nigerian city (Reuters)

Reuters - Several people were wounded in a bomb blast in Maiduguri on Saturday, a city in remote northeastern Nigeria which has been plagued by almost daily attacks from a radical Islamist sect.


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Fresh blasts in Tripoli after NATO air strikes (AFP)

Libyans carry the coffin of two of four rebels, killed during fighting with loyalist troops, after the Friday noon prayer at Revolution Square in the Libyan rebel stronghold city of Benghazi on July 22. NATO-led warplanes struck the Libyan capital early on Saturday, with the alliance saying they hit a military command centre and Moamer Kadhafi's regime saying that civilians were targeted.(AFP/File/Gianluigi Guercia)AFP - Fresh explosions rocked Tripoli and its suburbs after NATO said its warplanes had hit a military command centre in the Libyan capital.



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Bloody clashes in Egypt despite democracy pledge (AFP)

Egyptian soldiers stand guard behind barbed wire as protesters demonstrate outside the defence ministry, the headquarters of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, in Cairo.(AFP/Mohamed Hossam)AFP - Bloody clashes erupted in Cairo on Saturday between protesters demanding political change and loyalists of the ruling military council, hours after the military ruler pledged democracy.



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Dozens hurt in clashes, Egypt rulers promise democracy (Reuters)

Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, head of Egypt's ruling military council, meets with visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi in Cairo May 3, 2011. REUTERS/Pool/Xinhua/Cai YangReuters - Dozens of people were injured in Cairo on Saturday when thousands of demonstrators fought opponents with stones after marching to the Defense Ministry to urge their military rulers to speed up reforms, witnesses said.



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Egypt police fire warning shots after clashes (Reuters)

Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, head of Egypt's ruling military council, meets with visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi in Cairo May 3, 2011. REUTERS/Pool/Xinhua/Cai YangReuters - Military police fired warning shots in the air at a protest outside the Egyptian Defense Ministry in Cairo on Saturday after stone-throwing clashes broke out between thousands of demonstrators and opponents, witnesses said.



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Libyan women fight for freedom on the home front (AFP)

Libyan women take part in a rally in the eastern Libyan port city of Benghazi in June 2011. The women of Libya -- especially in the Nafusa Mountains -- were among the protesters before the fighting started, and since then they have readied their sons and husbands for battle and nursed the wounded.(AFP/File/Patrick Baz)AFP - Libyan men have had to reassess how they view the fairer sex since the start of the uprising, and when the dust settles the role of women in the north African country may well have changed for ever.



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Egyptians march in Cairo, rulers promise democracy (Reuters)

Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, head of Egypt's ruling military council, meets with visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi in Cairo May 3, 2011. REUTERS/Pool/Xinhua/Cai YangReuters - Thousands of Egyptians marched from central Cairo to the Defense Ministry on Saturday to press military rulers for faster reforms one day after police used force to disperse demonstrators in Alexandria, witnesses said.



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