Access to the social networking website Facebook (http://www.facebook.com ) has been blocked without explanation since 24 August 2008 in Tunisia, in a move that reinforces government censorship of the Internet, Reporters Without Borders said.

The Libyan firm that bought the Grand Regency Hotel also pocketed Sh36.5 million after buying it.

Libya's national incumbent LPTIC has embarked upon what is probably the most ambitious overhaul of a telephone network in the whole of Africa. It plans to put in place a fibre Next Generation Backbone Network (NGBN) and has pilot projects to extend IP delivery at a local level. The impact of new fibre network will also improve both its connections to its neighbours and internationally. Russell ...

Two hijackers who seized a Sudanese airliner flying from the Darfur region to the capital, Khartoum, have released the flight's 87 passengers in Libya, the Sudan Tribune newspaper reported Wednesday.

An unnamed Ugandan national is one of 96 passengers of a Sudanese plane that was hijacked forced to land in Libya.

On 23 August 2008, ANHRI and the Hisham Mubarak Law Center reported that the state security investigation agency had decided to keep in prison Mohamed Refaat, editor of the blog Matabbat, http://matabbat.blogspot.com . The authorities have turned a blind eye to a 17 August supreme state security prosecution order calling for the young blogger's release.

Kampala contracted a non-existent Libyan firm to export garments to the US under the US sponsored Africa Growth and Opportunity Act, The East African has learnt.

A lawyer who appeared for Goldenberg scandal mastermind Kamlesh Pattni during meetings to explore recovery of his Grand Regency Hotel by the Government also represented a Libyan firm that eventually bought the hotel, it emerged on Tuesday.