Rebels in Sudan prepare for war
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...
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No hiding place for rebels in Mali as the U.S. prepares support for Fr...
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...
Rebels march into new Libya with a hangover as transitional government...
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...
President Amadou Toumani Toure has been overthrown as renegade soldier...
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 ...
Libya – Reversing the gains of a nation
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...
Was the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi murdered in cold bold by ...
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...
Black refugees are hounded and forced to clear debris and garbage by r...
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 express concern over French arms delivery to Libyan rebels
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 ...
Gaddafi in direct talks with rebels as Russia mediates
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...
U.S. throws in financial lifeline for Libyan rebels as Gaddafi’s...
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...
Setback for rebels in Libya as NATO strikes kill four
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...
Rebels in Libya reject a proposed transition under Kadhafi’s son...
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...
Rebels in Libya say they are ready for conditional ceasefire
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...
Libyan rebels flee as Kadhafi’s forces pound stronghold
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...
Rebels move into strategic town of Ajdabiya as air-strikes continue in...
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...
Kadhafi says he will show the “traitors” no mercy
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...