Tunisia garners praise for new Constitution
Global leaders attended the ceremony to formally adopt Tunisia’s new Constitution as international lenders released funds to the now stable country.
Al-Qaeda gather strength in the desert after Mali defeat
Al-Qaeda’s North African branch has established a haven in western Libya after they were driven out of northern Mali a year ago.
Deep Read: Another fright for Tunisia
In Tunisia, the transition from dictatorship to democracy has been smoother than neighbouring countries, but an unexpected threat has emerged.
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Frontlines hard to find in Libya’s struggle
Just 100km from Gaddafi’s hometown, something didn’t feel right. There were no signs of the rebel army, and we were getting close to where government
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Bin Laden calls for jihad against Darfur peacekeepers
Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden called for a holy war against a proposed peacekeeping force in Sudan’s war-torn region of Darfur in a message that appeared on jihadi websites on Tuesday. The audio recording was accompanied by a still picture and excerpts were aired by pan-Arab satellite news channel al-Jazeera on Monday.
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Egypt reform moves forward
Three decades ago, millions of Egyptians took to the streets across the country to protest the government’s removal of subsidies on basic commodities in an explosion of violence that shook the regime to its core and appeared to end any further talk of economic reform.
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Shattered Iraq limps into 2007
A shattered Iraq limps into 2007 after a year in which a bloody insurgency escalated into brutal sectarian war, forcing Washington to contemplate a major policy shift to halt total disintegration. Standing out from the daily bombings and late-night murders that define life in Iraq, one single attack set the tone for the dramatic collapse in security.
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Expert: Saddam’s forces filled mass graves with children
Iraqi troops shot kneeling mothers and young children in the head and dumped them into mass graves by the score, a forensic expert told ousted dictator Saddam Hussein’s genocide trial on Thursday. Showing pictures of three mass graves, American expert Michael Trimble said that most of the dead at these sites were Kurdish children and women.
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Saddam trial: ‘We heard screaming and gunfire’
Saddam Hussein’s troops drove truckloads of terrified Kurdish villagers into the desert and gunned them down by the hundreds, a witness told the ousted Iraqi leader’s genocide trial on Wednesday. After managing to escape, the detainee ran off through the night and fell into a ditch of the recently killed, in the middle of a vast field of burial mounds left behind by a systematic slaughter, he told the court.
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Bush in Baghdad for morale-boosting talks
United States President George Bush arrived in Baghdad on Tuesday on a surprise five-hour visit in a bid to boost the new government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in its fight against the raging insurgency. A White House spokesperson confirmed that Bush was in Baghdad. ”I can confirm President Bush is in Iraq,” Ken Lisaius told Agence France-Presse.
