Libya has decided to grant Investment fund to Somalia through Sahel-Saharan Investment and Trade Bank. This was made known by a source close to the organization in Cotonou capital of Benin where the 10th summit of the Community of Sahel-Saharan States, CEN-SAD, is being held since Tuesday.

Africa's leading electricity supply company Société Tunisienne de l'Electricité du Gaz based in Tunis, Tunisia, has signed a contract with Rwanda's Electricity and Water Utility Authority (Electrogaz) to supply cheap electricity to Rwanda.

What is left of press freedom in Morocco? The first six months of 2008 have been marked by an avalanche of trials and repressive judicial and administrative decisions. At the same time, promises by Prime Minister Abbas El Fassi's government to reform the press law have still not materialised. No bill has yet been submitted to the chamber of deputies.

The International Secretariat of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) has received new information concerning the following situation in Libya.

Egypt has brokered a historic ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, a radical Islamic group, and the agreements will take effect from tomorrow.

Reporters Without Borders has condemned the Algerian government's inability to tolerate criticism after the communication ministry stripped the Agence France-Presse bureau chief and the Reuters correspondent in Algiers of their accreditation on 10 June 2008, and a court fined the daily "Liberté"'s publisher and editor and one of its cartoonists for defamation on 16 June.

A charge of publishing false information, that was brought against Al-Jazeera Rabat bureau chief Hassan Rachidi on 13 June 2008, quickly followed by the immediate withdrawal of his press accreditation without waiting for him to be tried, were condemned by Reporters Without Borders as "excessive."

Mohamed Nema Oumar, the publisher of the privately-owned, Arabic-language weekly "Al-Houriya", was released on the evening of 13 June 2008 after being held for 30 hours in a police station in the Nouakchott district of Tevragh Zeina.

The Coptic Catholic Bishop Antonios Aziz Mina of Guizeh has called on Christians to continue to show love in the face of recent attacks by extremist groups.

The World Food Program (WFP) on Friday received food assistance worth 112, 000 USD from Egypt government' Fund for Technical Cooperation with Africa.

Rwanda's Amavubi Stars' defeat of an African giant in the 2010 World/Africa Cup qualifiers was the game of the day according to Fifa website.

The newly appointed Eritrean Ambassador to Egypt, Mr. Fassil Gebreslasie, today presented his credentials to President Mohammed Hosni Mubarek.

Abdelhamid Chebchoub, the Algerian ambassador to The Gambia, based in Dakar, Senegal, on Friday paid a visit to Sheriff Kebba Hydara, the grand marabout of Brufut Village, Kombo North.

Mohamed Nema Oumar, the publisher of the privately-owned, Arabic-language weekly Al-Houriya, was released on the evening of 13 June after being held for 30 hours in a police station in the Nouakchott district of Tevragh Zeina.

Morocco interim Coach Fathi Jamal is planning to make two changes to the side that lost to Rwanda 1-3 in the 2010 World/Africa Cup qualifier over the weekend at Nyamirambo stadium.

In a long feature paper entitled "The many worlds of Tunisia ", the Montreal Gazette highlights Tunisia 's "amazingly varied cultural heritage".

In a written statement published in the "2008 Tunisia Report" issued by the Oxford Business Group, one of the leading international publications aiming at analyzing the performances of emerging markets, President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali underscored the modernizing of the Tunisian economy which has made the country a "centre that is well prepared to attract foreign investors".

A Kenyan woman is being held by police in Mauritius, together with six Tanzanian sportsmen on suspicion of smuggling drugs into the country.

There are times when you wish that Libyan strongman Col Muammar Gaddafi would just shut up. The eccentric Gaddafi, who has been in power for nearly 40 years, is proverbial for making outrageous statements.

Somali immigrant headed to Libyan from Sudan have been badly tortured and robed by armed militias laid checkpoints between the two African countries Shabelle reporter in Tripoli said.