AFP - A German engineer went on trial accused of helping Libya's attempts to develop nuclear weapons using technology supplied through the smuggling network of the disgraced Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan.

AFP - A German engineer was to go on trial accused of supplying Libya's now-abandoned nuclear weapons programme with technology through the smuggling network of the disgraced Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan.

AFP - Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir is to hold a new mini-summit on the Darfur crisis with his Egyptian and Libyan counterparts ahead of an Arab summit in Khartoum later this month, presidential advisor Mustafa Osman Ismail said.

AFP - Libya named a new prime minister, Baghdadi Mahmudi, as part of a major cabinet reshuffle, Libyan state television reported.

AFP - Libya released all 84 jailed members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood movement who had been held in the country since the late 1990s, official sources said.