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People search for survivors under the rubble of homes at the site of a massive rockslide which hit a shantytown at Moqattam hill in northern Cairo, September 6. Hopes of finding survivors trapped under giant boulders have begun to fade, a day after the rockslide flattened homes, burying whole families under the rubble.(AFP/Khaled Desouki)

Survivor hopes fade after Cairo rockslide kills dozens

AFP - 12 minutes ago

CAIRO (AFP) - Hopes of finding survivors trapped under giant boulders began to fade on Sunday, a day after a massive rockslide flattened homes in a north Cairo shantytown, burying whole families under the rubble.

  • Students on their way to school in Mbarae, Harare, May 2008. Teachers in Zimbabwe's public schools have gone on strike to press for higher pay, a union spokesman has said, despite a pay rise for civil servants announced by the government.(AFP/File/Alexander Joe)
    Zimbabwe teachers strike for better pay: union AFP - 1 hour, 32 minutes ago

    HARARE (AFP) - Teachers in Zimbabwe's public schools have gone on strike to press for higher pay, a union spokesman on Sunday, despite a pay rise for civil servants announced by the government.

  • Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi (R) meets with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (L) in Tripoli September 5, 2008. (Stringer/Reuters)
    Gaddafi takes kitchen diplomacy approach with Rice Reuters - 1 hour, 57 minutes ago

    RABAT (Reuters) - The heart of many homes is the kitchen and that is where Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi hosted Condoleezza Rice for a Ramadan meal this week, a symbolic gesture to try to end decades of enmity.

  • Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, left, greets U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Algiers, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008. Rice's three-day visit to North Africa, including Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco, is her first as Secretary of State in this region of increasing strategic importance in terms of oil resources, emigration and fighting terrorism. (AP Photo/Ouahab Hebbat)
    US holds off on civilian nuclear pact with Russia AP - 2 hours, 54 minutes ago

    ALGIERS, Algeria - Now is not the right time for the U.S. to move forward on a once-celebrated deal for civilian nuclear cooperation with Russia, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Saturday.

  • Early results in Angola give ruling party lead AP - Sun Sep 7, 5:26 AM ET

    LUANDA, Angola - Angolan election officials say early parliamentary results give the ruling party a big lead over a former rebel group.

  • A picture made available by Albany Associates shows fighters from the Sudan Liberation Army in the mountainous area of Nertiti on the edge of Jebel Marra in central Darfur, April 2008. Dozens of Darfur rebels and Sudanese government soldiers have been killed in fierce clashes in north Darfur, fighters from the Sudan Liberation Army have said.(AFP/HO/File/Stuart Price)
    'Heavy' casualties in Darfur attacks: rebels AFP - Sun Sep 7, 5:22 AM ET

    KHARTOUM (AFP) - Dozens of Darfur rebels and Sudanese government soldiers have been killed in fierce clashes in North Darfur state, fighters from the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) said on Sunday.

  • A Sudanese woman wears a robe with the image of St. Bakhita at the St. Bakhita parish church in Jeberona displacement camp on the outskirts of Khartoum August 24, 2008. Josephine Bakhita, a former slave who died in 1947, has risen from obscurity to become the first saint from Darfur in western Sudan, a region convulsed by war for the past five years. Picture taken August 24, 2008. To match feature SUDAN-SAINT/ REUTERS/Andrew Heavens (SUDAN)
    Rebels: Government assault in Darfur thwarted AP - Sun Sep 7, 4:20 AM ET

    KHARTOUM, Sudan - A Darfur rebel group says it has successfully repelled a government assault in North Darfur, but the Sudanese government denies it carried out any operations in the area.

  • People search for survivors under the rubble of homes at the site of a massive rockslide which hit a shantytown at Moqattam hill in northern Cairo, September 6. Hopes of finding survivors trapped under giant boulders have begun to fade, a day after the rockslide flattened homes, burying whole families under the rubble.(AFP/Khaled Desouki)
    Cairo rockslide toll rises to 30: TV AFP - Sun Sep 7, 3:38 AM ET

    CAIRO (AFP) - At least 30 people were killed after dozens of homes in a northern Cairo shantytown were crushed by a massive rockslide, state television reported on Sunday, updating an earlier toll.

  • Sudanese women shout slogans in support of President Omar al-Beshir in Khartoum in July. Traders were quick to cash in on the controversy when International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo in July asked for an arrest warrant for al-Beshir for alleged war crimes in Darfur.(AFP/File/Ashraf Shazly)
    In Sudan tob trends, the 'Hummer' may be the new 'Ocampo' AFP - Sun Sep 7, 2:09 AM ET

    KHARTOUM (AFP) - Fashion-conscious women in Sudan anxious to look their best for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan are scouring the capital in search of this season's must-have item -- which may not even exist.

  • Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi (R) poses with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Tripoli, September 5, 2008. Rice became the first US secretary of state to visit Tripoli for 55 years and held a landmark meeting with Kadhafi to seal a US-Libya rapprochement.(AFP/File/Mahmud Turkia)
    Rice in Morocco on last leg of north Africa tour AFP - Sat Sep 6, 6:18 PM ET

    RABAT (AFP) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Morocco Saturday on the last leg of a North Africa visit after holding talks on terrorism in Algeria with President Abedelaziz Bouteflika.

  • Siyabonga Nkosi (L) of South Africa jumps for the ball against Seyi Olofinjada of Nigeria during a 2010 World Cup-African Nations qualifier match in Port Elizabeth. South Africa fell 1-0 to Nigeria Saturday and lost virtually all hope of playing in the African Nations Cup five months before hosting the 2010 World Cup.(AFP)
    Super subs lift Cameroon into final round AFP - Sat Sep 6, 5:41 PM ET

    JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - Cameroon came from behind to trump Cape Verde Islands 2-1 Saturday and become the second country to reach the final African qualifying phase for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

  • Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi (R) poses with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Tripoli, September 5, 2008. Rice became the first US secretary of state to visit Tripoli for 55 years and held a landmark meeting with Kadhafi to seal a US-Libya rapprochement.(AFP/File/Mahmud Turkia)
    Rice in Algeria after landmark meeting with Kadhafi AFP - Sat Sep 6, 5:12 PM ET

    ALGIERS (AFP) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice talked terrorism in Algeria Saturday with President Abedelaziz Bouteflika, as her North Africa visit edged towards its conclusion.

  • The South Africa Rugby Union (SARU) denied Saturday a report claiming national coach Peter de Villiers, seen here in June 2008, was the victim of sex blackmail.(AFP/File/Gianluigi Guercia)
    Springbok coach denies sex blackmail claim AFP - Sat Sep 6, 4:30 PM ET

    JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - The South Africa Rugby Union (SARU) denied Saturday a report claiming national coach Peter de Villiers was the victim of sex blackmail.

  • Nigeria court bails ex-governor on graft charges AFP - Sat Sep 6, 3:49 PM ET

    LAGOS (AFP) - A Nigerian court has granted bail to a former state governor facing corruption charges, court officials said Saturday.

  • People search amongst the rubble where a rockslide hit a Cairo shanty town September 6, 2008.Twenty people were killed and 23 injured when the massive rockslide hit the crowded Cairo shanty town on Saturday, sending rocks and boulders crashing down on dozens of houses, state news agency MENA said. (Nasser Nuri/Reuters)
    Killer landslide hits east Cairo shanty town Reuters - Sat Sep 6, 3:41 PM ET

    CAIRO (Reuters) - Thirty-one people were killed and 23 injured when a massive rockslide hit a crowded Cairo shanty town on Saturday, sending rocks and boulders crashing down on dozens of houses, security and medical sources said.

  • Teko Modise of South Afrioca (L) and Obojo Ujubuesi of Nigeria (R) clash during a 2010 World Cup-African Nations qualifier in Port Elizabeth. South Africa fell 1-0 to Nigeria Saturday and lost virtually all hope of playing in the African Nations Cup five months before hosting the 2010 World Cup.(AFP)
    Luckless South Africa face Nations Cup embarrassment AFP - Sat Sep 6, 2:37 PM ET

    PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa (AFP) - South Africa fell 1-0 to Nigeria Saturday and lost virtually all hope of playing in the African Nations Cup five months before hosting the 2010 World Cup.

  • Libyan Director of the Department of American Affairs at the Libyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ahmed al-Fitori (right), welcomes US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice upon her arrival in Tripoli.(AFP/Mahmud Turkia)
    Rice makes Algeria stop on North Africa tour AFP - Sat Sep 6, 11:04 AM ET

    ALGIERS (AFP) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice touched down in Algeria's capital for several hours Saturday, continuing a North Africa tour that earlier took in Tunisia and Libya.

  • Nigeria's president returns home after long trip AP - Sat Sep 6, 8:05 AM ET

    LAGOS, Nigeria - Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua returned to the West African country Saturday after more than two weeks in Saudi Arabia, where he reportedly spent a lengthy stint in a private hospital, officials said.

  • Children rise their hands in front of a mural of St. Bakhita at the St. Bakhita parish church in Jeberona displacement camp on the outskirts of Khartoum August 24, 2008. Josephine Bakhita, a former slave who died in 1947, has risen from obscurity to become the first saint from Darfur in western Sudan, a region convulsed by war for the past five years. Picture taken August 24, 2008. To match feature SUDAN-SAINT/ REUTERS/Andrew Heavens (SUDAN)
    Sudanese forces attack Darfur rebel bases: insurgents Reuters - Sat Sep 6, 7:41 AM ET

    KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese forces launched ground and air attacks on two rebel bases in North Darfur on Saturday, killing an unknown number of people, insurgent groups said.

  • President of Nigeria Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, seen in July, returned home from Saudi Arabia Saturday, a government official said, amid questions about his health.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)
    Nigerian president returns home amid health questions AFP - Sat Sep 6, 3:37 AM ET

    LAGOS (AFP) - Nigeria's President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua returned home from Saudi Arabia Saturday, a government official said, amid questions about his health.

  • Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi (R) meets with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (L) in Tripoli September 5, 2008. Rice met Gaddafi -- once reviled as a 'mad dog' by a U.S. president -- on Friday on a historic visit which she said proved that Washington had no permanent enemies. (Stringer/Reuters)
    Rice meets Gaddafi on Libya visit Reuters - Sat Sep 6, 3:25 AM ET

    TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi -- once reviled as a "mad dog" by a U.S. president -- on Friday on a historic visit which she said proved that Washington had no permanent enemies.

  • Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, right, meets with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, left in Tripoli, Libya, Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. Rice begins a four-nation tour of North Africa in Tripoli today, meeting with Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and other top officials in what the State Department is calling a landmark trip that will symbolize the opening of a new era in ties between the United States and the oil-rich country. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
    Rice meets Gadhafi on historic visit to Libya AP - Sat Sep 6, 2:07 AM ET

    TRIPOLI, Libya - The United States and Libya sealed a historic turnaround after decades of terrorist killings, American retaliation, suspicions and insults with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's peacemaking visit Friday with Moammar Gadhafi, Libya's mercurial strongman.

  • The scene of devastation caused by the explosion of a Pan Am jet over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988 that killed 270 people. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi on a landmark visit to Tripoli, heralding a new chapter in Washington's reconciliation with the former enemy state.(AFP/File)
    Rice meets Kadhafi on historic Libya visit AFP - Sat Sep 6, 12:40 AM ET

    TRIPOLI (AFP) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Tunis early Saturday to pursue a North Africa tour after a landmark meeting in Libya with its leader Moamer Kadhafi.

  • Canada imposes sanctions against Zimbabwe AP - Fri Sep 5, 8:46 PM ET

    TORONTO - Canada on Friday joined the U.S. and European Union in imposing sanctions on Zimbabwe's authoritarian regime headed by President Robert Mugabe.

  • Gunmen on Friday released two French oil workers seized one month ago in Port Harcourt, seen here,Nigeria's main oil producing region, a diplomat said(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei)
    Kidnapped Frenchmen freed in Nigeria's oil hub: diplomats AFP - Fri Sep 5, 8:38 PM ET

    LAGOS (AFP) - Gunmen on Friday released two French oil workers seized one month ago in Nigeria's main oil producing region, a diplomat said.

  • U.S. filmmaker provisionally released in Nigeria Reuters - Fri Sep 5, 8:12 PM ET

    LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigerian authorities provisionally released a U.S. journalist late on Friday, almost a week after he was arrested for filming the army in the oil-producing Niger Delta, his colleagues and a rights group said.

  • Nigerian Vice-President Jonathan Goodluck listens during the first India-Africa Forum Summit in New Delhi in April 2008. Nigeria has set up a 40-member technical committee on peace talks to end the crisis in the oil-rich Niger Delta, the government said Friday. The committee will be sworn in on Monday by Jonathan.(AFP/Findlay Kember)
    Nigeria sets up Niger Delta peace committee AFP - Fri Sep 5, 7:16 PM ET

    LAGOS (AFP) - Nigeria has set up a 40-member technical committee on peace talks to end the crisis in the oil-rich Niger Delta, the government said Friday.

  • Canada imposes targeted sanctions against Zimbabwe Reuters - Fri Sep 5, 2:34 PM ET

    OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada has imposed targeted sanctions against Zimbabwe to protest against "intimidation and state-sponsored violence" against opposition supporters, Foreign Minister David Emerson said on Friday.

  • Angolans queue to vote at a polling station in the capital Luanda, September 5, 2008. Angolans voted for the first time in 16 years in a parliamentary election expected to extend the ruling MPLA party's hold of more than three decades in the booming oil-rich African nation. (Stringer/Reuters)
    Angola extends election after opposition protests Reuters - Fri Sep 5, 6:29 PM ET

    LUANDA (Reuters) - Angola's first election for 16 years will go into an unscheduled second day on Saturday, the official in charge said after opposition parties had condemned the vote as chaotic and demanded a re-run.

  • Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe attends the funeral service of the late Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa in Lusaka, September 3, 2008. (Mackson Wasamunu/Reuters)
    S.Africa's Mbeki expected in Zimbabwe for mediation Reuters - Fri Sep 5, 11:44 AM ET

    HARARE (Reuters) - South African President Thabo Mbeki is expected in Harare on Monday to continue mediation efforts to break a deadlock in power-sharing talks, a Zimbabwean official said on Friday.

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