Month: October 2011

by Samer al-Atrush and Ines Bel Aiba – CAIRO (AFP) Twenty-three people, mostly Coptic Christians, died in clashes Sunday between Coptic Christians and Egyptian security forces, the health ministry said, sparking fears of...

By Piers Edwards BBC Africa Sport Hubert from Tanzania texts in to remind us of the misery of those whose favourites won’t be at January’s finals. ‘It is 00:15am here in Tanzania and though I have to go to work...

By Stefan Nicola The Sahara solar initiative backed by German turbine maker Siemens AG (SIE) and Deutsche Bank AG (DBK) will sketch out plans in 2012 for its first power plant, a 600 million-euro ($800 million) station in...

TUNIS (AFP) – Around 300 Tunisian Salafists on Sunday attacked the headquarters of a private TV station that aired a French-Iranian film and organised a debate on religious extremism, the channel said. “Three hundred...

WARSAW (AFP) – A team of observers from Arab Spring nations were Sunday on hand to monitor Poland’s general election, as Warsaw shares the lessons of the democratic wave that drove out its communist regime in 1989....