Middle Eastern, North African music these days?

Really good stuff. Anyone have a top ten, top five, or favorite African recordings list? I'll list some in addition to a few I named above:

Senegal: Baaba Maal & Mansour Seck - Djam Leelii - a must have.
Eqypt: Compilation - Yalla! Hitlist Eqypt
Mali: Nahawa Doumbia - Didadi
Tanzania: Remmy Ongala - Songs for the Poor Man
Nigeria: Fela - a few of his singles
- Upside Down
- Zombie
- Just Like That
S. Africa: Mahlathini & The Mahotella Queens - Paris-Soweto
Benin: Angelique Kidjo - Logozo
Senegal: Orchetra Baobab - Pirate's Choice
S. Africa: Compilation - The Indestructable Beat of Soweto

This is cheating since they are from Spain, but North African influenced:
Radio Tarifa - Rumba Argelina & also Fiebre, their live album.

Lots of very good compilations on the Rough Trade label.
Afropop Worldwide is a also a great resource: http://www.afropop.org/

That would be Egypt, as opposed to Eqypt that I seem to want to keep typing...:^)

I understand this is all on cds, no LPs, right?

Water Lily did an LP of Hamza el Din is that very much worth having if you can find it.

An interesting group to check out is Tinariwen, who are Taureg nomads/freedom fighters. It's bluesy and electric but decidedly different from most anything else I've heard.

Tuareg fighters? I got to listen to this.
By the way, there are still cases of cannibalism in Sahara.