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TRIPOLI: Gunmen demanding the sacking of former officials of the ousted Qadhafi regime surrounded the justice ministry on Tuesday, stepping up an action started at the foreign ministry, an official said."Several armed men in vehicles equipped with anti-aircraft guns surrounded the ministry of justice," spokesman Walid Ben Rabha told AFP."They asked the minister and staff present to leave their offices and close the ministry."An AFP photographer saw more than 20 pick-up trucks loaded with machine guns, anti-aircraft guns and rocket launchers and said they had blocked access to the building.Dozens of gunmen making the same demand have kept the foreign ministry under siege since Sunday, paralysing its work.The interior ministry and national television station have also been attacked.On Monday, angry police officers firing their guns in the air stormed the interior ministry demanding higher wages.Prime Minister Ali Zeidan has denounced the encircling of the foreign ministry and other such attacks.On ...
KADUNA: Gunmen armed with rocket-propelled grenades attacked a police station and a bank in northern Nigeria, killing three policemen and two civilians, authorities said on Monday, in a region struggling to control an insurgency.The gunmen struck the town of Ringim late on Thursday night, said Abdul Jinjiri, police spokesman for Jigawa state, where the town is located."After attacking a police station and killing three of our men, they then moved to nearby Unity Bank and ...
JOHANNESBURG: Zambia's central bank left it main lending rate steady at 9.25 percent, saying inflation was likely to moderate in May because of an improved maize harvest, a statement said on Monday. Copyright Reuters, 2013 ...
JOHANNESBURG: South Africa's former president Nelson Mandela is in "good shape" after his recent hospitalisation, the ruling ANC said Monday, after President Jacob Zuma visited the democracy icon."They found president Mandela in good shape and in good spirits," the party said in a statement.Zuma and the top brass of the African National Congress dropped in on the ailing 94-year-old at his Johannesburg home, where he has been recuperating under high-care since his hospital release earlier ...
ALGIERS: Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is "responding well" after he suffered a stroke and there was no irreversible damage, a doctor told state news agency APS on Sunday.The president, 76, "did not suffer irreversible damage", said Rachid Bougherbal, director of Algeria's National Sports Medicine Centre, explaining that "no sensory function was impaired".Bouteflika, who has been in power since 1999, on Saturday suffered a "transient ischaemia", or temporary blockage of blood flow, which "did not last ...
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