Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has promoted his wife to a top position in his ZANU-PF party, a move that gives her a seat on the ruling party’s top decision-making body.

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has accused his vice president of colluding with the US embassy in the country in an assassination plot against the nation’s top leader.

At least a militant has been killed and several others are wounded in a Libyan airstrike that hit a militia post on the border with Tunisia.

The death toll from recent twin bomb attacks in the central Somali town of Baidabo has reached 20 people, including two journalists.

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has expressed concern over the humanitarian and security situation in the Central African Republic (CAR).

Eleven people have been killed by floods triggered by torrential rain in Morocco, just a week after a heavy storm left 36 dead.

An attack by armed men in northeastern Kenya has left one dead and a dozen others wounded, the Kenya Red Cross says.

Liberian officials have wrongly ascribed about 1,000 deaths in the West African country to the deadly Ebola virus, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.

26 Brotherhood figures jailed for contempt of courtAn Egyptian court has sentenced Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie and 25 others to three years in prison for contempt of court.

Gambia says it will severe all dialogue with the European Union (EU) should the 28-nation bloc use its aid budget to pile pressure on the West African country to overturn a new law against homosexuality.

Blasts and gunfire have broken out in the northeastern Nigerian city of Damaturu as violence continues to plague the West African country.

Nigerian Muslims will not be frightened by recent deadly bomb and gun attacks on a mosque in the country's northern city of Kano, the city’s emir says.

Egyptian police have fired tear gas and used water cannons to disperse hundreds of demonstrators protesting at a court's decision to drop all charges against ousted president, Hosni Mubarak.

More than 400 people have been killed over the last six weeks of heavy clashes between Libyan pro-government troops and militants, medical staff say.

South Sudan has warned the UN Security Council (UNSC) against imposing further sanctions in an attempt to end nearly a year of violence in the northeastern African country.

Sudan has called on the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) to close its human rights office in the capital Khartoum.

Hundreds have rallied in the Kenyan capital in protest at, what they describe as, the government's failure to contain growing insecurity.

Troops loyal to Libya’s globally-recognized government have taken control of the strategic western town of Kekla after over 40 days of clashes with militias there.

Libyan officials say the capital city’s only functional airport has been targeted in an air raid by a low-flying jet.

Malagasy officials have raised the death toll from a recent bubonic plague outbreak to 47 as the bacterial disease spreads through the country.