Africa

'He called us rats, but he is the one hiding. We shall hang them all together. . .'

Tuesday, 23 August 2011

The machine-gun fire cut across the patriotic songs belting out of the ghetto-blaster, long raking bursts sending the rebel fighters scrambling for cover. One, little more than a boy, fell to the ground, blood streaming from his face as he desperately held out his hands for two friends to drag him away.

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Rebels claim the victory – but did the Brits win it?

Tuesday, 23 August 2011

Cahal Milmo and Kim Sengupta on the army of spies and special forces at work in Libya

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How a long, hard struggle suddenly raced to a climax

Tuesday, 23 August 2011

In January 1942, the tanks of Montgomery's Eighth Army rolled on to the streets of Tripoli. They arrived two days early, unopposed. On Sunday night, Libya's rebels entered the same city – without tanks, but also uncontested and even further ahead of schedule. Their convoys drove easily through a defensive perimeter where heavily armed units of the Khamis Brigade, commanded by one of Muammar Gaddafi's sons, should have been lobbing rockets. Others walked into the brigade's barracks, seizing a store of arms. And then, firing scarcely a shot in anger, crowds entered Green Square and raised the old monarchy's flag.

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Rebels 'control most of Tripoli'

Monday, 22 August 2011

Scattered battles erupt across the Libyan capital, as Muammar Gaddafi's whereabouts remain unknown.

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Gaddafi faces end as rebels celebrate

Monday, 22 August 2011

Kim Sengupta on the frontline in Maya: Rebel fighters celebrated victory in Tripoli's Green Square last night as heavy fighting continued.

Cameron delivers stark warning over Libya problems

Monday, 22 August 2011

David Cameron delivered a stark warning that problems in Libya were far from over tonight as Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year grip on power was finally broken.

Oil prices fall amid Libya hopes

Monday, 22 August 2011

Oil prices fell today on speculation that Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's 40-year rule in Libya is on the edge of collapse.

Clegg vows to avoid Iraq errors when Gaddafi falls

Monday, 22 August 2011

Nick Clegg will promise in a speech today that in a post-Gaddafi Libya, Britain will avoid the mistakes made in Iraq after the removal of Saddam Hussein.

Despite the euphoria, the rebels are divided

Monday, 22 August 2011

Many militiamen are already saying they will not take orders from the Transitional National Council, writes Patrick Cockburn

Gaddafi's capital rocked by gunfire, blasts and rumour

Sunday, 21 August 2011

Kim Sengupta and David Randall: Insurgents claim dictator has fled as rebel fighters and Nato launch coordinated offensive on Tripoli.

Food aid reaches only one in five of Somalia's starving

Sunday, 21 August 2011

Emily Dugan: Civil war and Islamist militias are preventing convoys from bringing relief to the most needy.

Gaddafi 'losing grip on reality'

Sunday, 21 August 2011

Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is losing his "grip on reality", a Foreign Office minister said today, as rebel forces closed in on the Libyan capital.

Gaddafi claims attack in Tripoli crushed

Sunday, 21 August 2011

Libyan rebels today claimed they were less than 20 miles from Muammar Gaddafi's main stronghold of Tripoli, a day after opposition fighters launched their first attack on the capital itself.

Libyan rebels capture oil hub Brega

Saturday, 20 August 2011

Libyan rebels said they have captured the strategic port city of Brega and Zlitan, west of Tripoli.

ANC loses patience with its 'champion of the poor'

Saturday, 20 August 2011

Alex Duval Smith: The African National Congress (ANC) yesterday ordered its controversial youth league leader Julius Malema to appear before its disciplinary panel for "bringing the party into disrepute and sowing internal divisions".