81.   The Suez Canal has found it increasingly difficult to compete for oil and gas shipments with pipelines and with massive ships that sail around the African continent.

82.   The Suez Canal has found it increasingly difficult to compete with pipelines or to lure the massive ships that sail around the African continent.

83.   The trip comes a week after rival China delivered Taiwan a diplomatic setback on the African continent by announcing restoration of ties with Niger.

84.   The Zaire conflict threatened to split the African continent into French and English factions, South African President Thabo Mbeki says Wednesday.

85.   The Zaire conflict threatened to split the African continent into French and English factions, South African Vice President Thabo Mbeki says.

86.   This surge has brought with it a rather dense layer of haze mixed with sand and dust...Traveling all the way from the African continent.

87.   Traditional fishermen on the African continent and elsewhere have often blamed high-tech fishing operations from Japan and elsewhere for dwindling stocks of fish.

88.   Guinea signed the convention, which calls on members to fight terrorism across the African continent, in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on Wednesday, the OAU said.

89.   In neighbouring South Africa meanwhile, former archbishop Desmond Tutu said Mugabe had degenerated from being one of the best leaders on the African continent into a madman.

90.   An entire belt of the African continent could be affected.