Civil Society Struggles to Access AU Summit - No gathering hosted by Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi is ever dull, and the Thirteenth Ordinary Session of the African Union, concluding in Sirte, Libya today has not disappointed. [AA Network - Sudan]

New Fighting Begins in Mogadishu - At least three government soldiers have been killed and several others have been injured after heavy fighting between the soldiers started in Ex-control Afgoi in the south of the Somali capital of Mogadishu , witnesses told Shabelle on Sunday. [AA Network - Somalia]

Violence Flares Up in Casamance Again - A 36-year-old woman recently lost her leg when she stepped on a mine in Casamance, southern Senegal, where a surge in violence has underscored how one of Africa's longest-standing conflicts continues to be a hardship for the region's 1.4 million people. [AA Network - Senegal]

Two Schemes Win in Global Green Energy Awards - Tonight, at a ceremony in London hosted by HRH The Prince of Wales in London, the world’s leading green energy prize named two African schemes as winners of Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy. [AA Network - Uganda]

Why the Congo is in a Mess - Volume I - I have been compelled to write this feature as a result of an article featured in this paper entitled "Light in Congo's Darkness". The article was slightly economical with the truth about the real reasons why there is instability in the Congo. [AA Network - DRC Congo]

Feeling the Pulse of Nairobi City - As a Ugandan traveling to neighbouring Kenya's capital Nairobi, I was briefed by a workmate on more don'ts than dos while in Nairobi. [AA Network - Uganda]

Relieve Citizens of Poor Service Delivery - I had the misfortune of visiting the department of immigration to have my work permit renewed a while ago. I was pretty amazed how the routine tasks in the process took the better part of seven days. We dropped off the passport and the standard processing time for a work permit lasted seven full business days, not to mention the almost one hour waiting to get the invoice and travel time to the bank in a different location to pay. Add the return trip with evidence of payment, back to the immigration office to get your interim work permit issued. [AA Network - Uganda]

Nearly 100,000 Somalis Displaced in Capital in Past Month, UN Reports - Since fighting broke out last month between Government forces and armed opposition groups, almost 100,000 people have been driven from their homes in the capital, Mogadishu, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNCHR) reported today. [AA Network - Somalia]

Fighting Kills 40 in Central Region - Reports from Wabho town in Galgudud region say that the death toll of yesterday's fighting increased as the both of the warring sides claiming victories over the conflict, officials said on Saturday. [AA Network - Somalia]

Rebel Leader Kidnaps 200 in DR Congo - The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels have kidnapped more than 200 villagers, including 50 children, in Dakwa, a village in northeastern Congo, about 200km from the border with the Central African Republic. [AA Network - Uganda]

'Obama Talks Democracy, Endorses Dictatorship' - Egyptian officials are lining up to praise U.S. President Barack Obama's address to the Islamic world delivered in Cairo Thursday. But local campaigners for political reform say the speech was disappointingly light on the issues of democracy and human rights. [AA Network - Egypt]

Obama Calls For a New Beginning With the Muslim World - Saying he came to seek a new beginning between the United States and the Muslim world, President Obama told an audience in Cairo June 4 that the cycle of suspicion and discord that has defined the relationship for so long must end. [AA Network - Egypt]

Do Australian Aborigines Hold Answers to Sahelian Deforestation? - For more than 20 years scientists have tried to introduce in Niger the acacia plant typically grown by aborigines living in dry zones of Australia. Despite the perennial's ability to withstand windstorms, heat and drought, Nigerien farmers have been slow to accept acacias or their protein-packed seeds. But with deforestation wiping out trees in Africa, agriculture experts told IRIN this aborigine import may fill a growing void. [AA Network - Niger]

Unions Oppose Mswati at Zuma Inauguration - The Congress of South African Trade Unions fully supports the call by the Swaziland Solidarity Network and others for South Africa not to permit King Mswati III of Swaziland to attend the inauguration of President Jacob Zuma on 9 May 2009. [AA Network - Swaziland]

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