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Wednesday, May 16, 2012   20:35 GMT    
North Africa

By CASABLANCA
‘Green Morocco Plan’ Fails to Confront Climate Change - An unprecedented cold spell that struck Morocco in February and continues to linger well into March has raised serious questions about the country's national agricultural development programme, which will fail to achieve its desired results if climate change continues to be mismanaged.
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By CAIRO
Deadly Gas Enters the Arab Spring - Activists across the Middle East are reporting a mysterious toxin, possibly a banned nerve agent, in the thick clouds of tear gas used by security forces to suppress anti-government protests in recent months.
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LIBYA
By TRIPOLI
Old Ways Under a New Flag - "They would call you a Gaddafist if you drove one of those 4 X 4 cars," says Bashar, emerging from one of those traffic jams in Tripoli. "Today almost every rebel commander has one."
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EGYPT
By CAIRO
Round One Goes to the Islamists - Islamists appear poised for a landslide victory in the first round of Egypt's parliamentary elections, putting them on track to secure a majority in the country's first parliament since the fall of president Hosni Mubarak.
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EGYPT
By DOHA
Former PM to Set Up New Cabinet - Egypt's ruling military council has reportedly asked a former prime minister, Kamal al-Ganzouri, to form a new cabinet. But there are no signs of a let-up in the anti-military demonstrations.
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By BERLIN
African Sun Prepares to Power Europe - Solar thermal power plants are indispensable to meet Europe’s energy demands and to reduce greenhouse gases emissions substantially, according to a new study by a European scientific commission.
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By TRIPOLI
Cornered in Free Libya - "We’ve walked all the way here to tell everybody that we are being treated like dogs," said 23-year old Hamuda Bubakar, among a couple of hundred black refugees protesting at Martyrs Square in Tripoli. "I’d rather be killed here. I wouldn’t be the first, or the last."
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LIBYA
By TRIPOLI
Visitors Could be Saviours - "A crossroads of history, continents and ancient empires; a place where history comes alive through the extraordinary monuments on its shores", reads a well- known tourist guidebook about Libya. It’s all still there, but the tourists aren’t there to see it.
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By BANI WALID, Libya
Libya's "Other" Victims - Suleyman and Rasool have come to the University of Bani Walid, in western Libya. If they are lucky they might find some chemistry notes and, perhaps, a computer that works. Unfortunately it is not likely, since NATO reduced the campus to rubble.
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LIBYA
By DOHA
Muammar Gaddafi Killed as Sirte Falls - Muammar Gaddafi has been killed after National Transitional Council fighters overran loyalist defences in Sirte, the toppled Libyan leader's hometown and final stronghold.
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By DOHA
Libya's Governing Council Accused of Detainee Abuse - Libya's governing National Transitional Council (NTC) is holding about 2,500 detainees in the capital Tripoli alone, many of whom have been beaten and subjected to other ill-treatment and not given access to lawyers or judicial proceedings, says London-based human-rights watchdog Amnesty International.
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By MIDRAND, South Africa
Imperative Libyans Decide Their Own Future - The African Union must take the lead in helping Libya achieve peace by ensuring the formation of a unity government between pro-Muammar Gaddafi forces and the National Transitional Council, as this and not foreign intervention will pave the way for peace and stability in Libya.
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WESTERN SAHARA
By MIDRAND, South Africa
Africa Should Slap Sanctions on Morocco - A firm call for African Union member states to impose sanctions against Morocco until it abides by the United Nations mandate that affirms the people of Western Sahara's right to self-determination was made at the Pan African Parliament proceedings.
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US
By WASHINGTON
Expanding Network of Drone Bases To Hit Somalia, Yemen - As Somalia undergoes its worst famine in six decades and Yemen slides into civil war, the administration of President Barack Obama is expanding its network of bases to carry out drone strikes against suspected terrorists in both countries, according to reports published in two major U.S. newspapers Thursday.
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LIBYA
By DOHA
Evidence of 'Mass Execution' in Tripoli - Al Jazeera has found evidence of a possible mass execution of political activists in Libya.
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