ADDIS ABABA , (IPS) - A rebel coalition in Sudan has declared war on the government less than a week after it attacked Sudanese forces. “Now there is a fully-fledged war in the new south of the nort...
WASHINGTON, Carey L. Biron (IPS) - U.S. Secretary of Defence Leon Panetta has applauded France’s surprise airstrikes on Islamist rebels in northern Mali that began late last week and continued over t...
ZAWIYAH, Libya, Rebecca Murray (IPS) – A few hundred police cadets in ad hoc camouflage uniforms march up and down the grounds at a training centre in the coastal town Zawiyah. “You are the peo...
According to reports coming out of the West African state of Mali, rebel troops have taken over the country after staging a mutiny on Wednesday and in the process trading gunfire with soldiers loyal ...
The demise of Libya’s Moamar Qathafi who was summarily executed by Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) rebel fighters after being wounded in a NATO air strike on his convoy just outside his h...
At the height of the rebellion in Libya, reports that were filtering out of Tripoli suggested that African migrant workers in the country were systematically targeted by rebels and some were impriso...
TRIPOLI, (IPS) – The Libyan revolution has been devastating for 20-year-old Alybe Nally from Nigeria, as it has been for countless others from Africa seen by the rebels as Gaddafi loyalists. “W...
AU leaders have expressed serious concerns over French arms deliveries to Libyan rebels, citing fears that the weapons could end up in the hands of terrorists, according to a top official. Ahead of ...
The regime in Libya is in direct talks with rebels, a Russian envoy was told on Thursday as the strongman’s son said the way out of a months-long conflict is the staging of elections. Russia...
A financial lifeline has been thrown in to rebels controlling eastern Libya by the United States as forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi harried insurgent strongholds in the west and far southeast of th...
AJDABIYA, April 8, 2011 (AFP) – Libyan rebels regrouped Friday after fleeing an assault by Moamer Kadhafi’s forces and coming under apparent NATO friendly fire, as a UN ship packed with s...
BENGHAZI, April 4, 2011 (AFP) – The Libyan rebels insisted Monday that the whole Kadhafi family must leave before there can be any truce with regime forces amid reports that his sons are offeri...
BENGHAZI, April 1, 2011 (AFP) – Libya’s opposition is ready for a ceasefire provided Moamer Kadhafi’s forces end their assaults on rebel-held cities, Transitional National Council l...
UQAYLA, March 30, 2011 (AFP) – Loyalist forces overran the Libyan oil town of Ras Lanuf on Wednesday, scattering outgunned rebels as world powers debated arming the rag-tag band of fighters see...
AJDABIYA, March 26, 2011 (AFP) – Libyan rebels moved into the strategic eastern town of Ajdabiya on Saturday, after a barrage of Western air strikes ousted Colonel Moamer Kadhafi’s forces...
TRIPOLI, March 17, 2011 (AFP) – Moamer Kadhafi said he would launch an assault on rebel stronghold Benghazi on Thursday night and show the “traitors” no mercy,” as world power...