afrol News - Opposition-controlled eastern Libya has been peaceful all day, while Tripoli is remarkably quiet before a widely expected counter-offensive from troops supporting the regime.
afrol News - Human rights groups and the opposition youth movement are preparing new mass protests in Morocco for 26 and 27 February, while denouncing government "lies" that Sunday's protests had been peaceful.
afrol News - Opposition groups, trade unions and Diaspora groups are preparing "Egypt-like" protests in Cameroon tomorrow, 23 February, to call for President Paul Biya to step down. The US Embassy warns of possible trouble.
afrol News - Colonel Moammar Ghaddafi in a televised speech, looking confused, screamed to his people he would "not leave this country and die as a martyr" of his own revolution.
afrol News - The private pilot of Moammar Ghaddafi, a Norwegian citizen, says he wants to leave Libya as soon as possible, but may have to wait for the Libyan leader.
afrol News - A UN Security Council meeting over the violence in Libya has only concluded that there will be held another meeting later today. Council members however indicate a no-fly zone over Libya will not be realised.
afrol News - As the Libyan regime is bombing its own citizens in the streets of Tripoli, diplomats, army officials and even pilots are deserting the regime in outrage over the "massacre".
afrol News - With the Ghaddafi regime using jet fighters and helicopters to bomb its own population, there are increased requests for the UN to impose a no-fly zone over the country.
afrol News - Libya's second city, Benghazi, is in the hands of the people, supported by fraternising army troops. Protesters are now flocking to the capital, Tripoli, for the final battle.
afrol News - Yesterday's mass protests in Morocco, at first peaceful and tolerated by authorities, during the night turned violent, with 5 deaths and 138 injured. Anger is spreading and could cause new violence.
afrol News - An incomplete, digital electoral roll is providing for political controversy and protest marches in Benin, as the country gears up for its 6 March presidential elections.
afrol News - Large spending by Uganda's incumbent President Yoweri Museveni to win the 2011 elections is said to have kept away an IMF team that was to assess the country's economic discipline.
afrol News / Africa Renewal - Lost in the excitement about Africans' enthusiastic embrace of mobile phones is the growing use of those phones to access the Internet - particularly YouTube, Facebook and other social media sites.
afrol News - During 2010, this afrol News series will present the most rewarding "secret" travel destinations in Africa, totally off the beaten track. Wondering where to go for a real African holiday experience or adventure? Follow us!
afrol News - The small island nation of Seychelles found itself in a deep crisis in 2008, which had its roots in the 1979 socialist revolution. A new economic "revolution" in 2008 however is reinventing the nation's economy, turning old truths upside-down and removing the disputed legacy of ex-Dictator France Albert René.