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Muammar Gaddafi’s loyalists have put up strong resistance to National Transitional Council, NTC, forces in the former ruler’s birthplace, Sirte, and the key bastion of Bani Walid. There was a last minute haggling, which held up the announcement of a new government in Benghazi. On Sunday, powerful explosions and artillery fire rocked Bani Walid, with NTC commanders claiming that they ...

More than 100 Ugandans are stranded in Nairobi, Kenya where they were taken by a local firm with promises of jobs in Iraq, Afghanistan and Qatar. Surety International Placements Agency Services Uganda Ltd, headed by Jonathan Egalal, a Ugandan residing in the US, recruited more than 200 Ugandan youth, and promised them jobs in different countries as security guards. Report ...

In Nigeria, the State Security Service, SSS, on Sunday offered a 25 million naira (about USD 167,000) reward for information on the mastermind of the August 26th bombing of the UN building in Abuja that killed 23 people. “A reward of 25 million naira is being offered for information that could lead directly to the apprehension or conviction of Mamman ...