Sub-Saharan migrants continue attempting dangerous and illegal crossings into Libya and Algeria.

Freddy Kasseri, 23, travelled from Ghana to Niger intending to cross the desert into Libya. He did not make it. Libyan security forces return migrants via land to a military post in northern Niger, where the migrants are turned over to Nigerien soldiers. Kasseri was transferred 650km to Agadez, where he is working to save money for a second attempt.

During an official ceremony organized on Tuesday held at the main lecture hall of the National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSAT), in Tunis, Libya's Leader Mouammar Kaddafi was given an Honorary Doctorate in Arabic and Islamic Civilisation from the University of November, 7 at Carthage.

Libyan owners of the Grand Regency Hotel have changed its name even as the Cockar Commission investigating the sale is yet to complete its work.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo who left the country for Libya on Monday on the invitation of the Libyan President, Muammar Gaddafi, returned yesterday and wished Nigeria goodluck on its 48th independent anniversary.

The leader of what is officially known as the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya is changing tact after decades of a terror campaign against the West, which now accepts him as he pursues his United States of Africa dream. igerian-based commentator, Okello Oculi traces the political evolution of Muammar Gaddafi

Corruption, bribery, money-laundering and the transfer of illegally-derived funds all obstruct progress towards reaching the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), eight anti-poverty targets with a 2015 deadline, especially in Africa, a senior Libyan official told the General Assembly today.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo left Nigeria for Libya yesterday on a "private visit".

LIBYAN leader Col. Muammar Gadaffi has urged Ugandan traditional leaders to promote his vision of a united African government.

A National Resistance Movement party group, campaigning for President Yoweri Museveni's fourth term in office have defended Libyan envoy, Abdullah Bujeldian over recent undiplomatic remarks he made on Uganda politics.