Tens of thousands of Muslim Brotherhood supporters have staged fresh protest rallies across Egypt to reject the army-backed government.

Egypt is deeply concerned about the UN speech by Tunisian President Moncef Marzouk who called on Cairo to release “political prisoners” including ousted President Mohamed Morsi.

Egyptian prosecutors have ordered a 45-day extension of detention of an Al Jazeera journalist, amid allegations that the government is harassing the channel.

Egyptian security sources say unknown gunmen have killed a policeman in Egypt’s volatile Sinai Peninsula.

Kenyan officials say they have detained eight suspects and freed three others while investigating into a four-day siege at Nairobi mall which ended by the death of at least 67 people and the partial destruction of the complex.

Nigerian Islamist group Ansaru on Friday released a video of a French national kidnapped in December, the SITE jihadi tracking website said.

China's state-owned CNOOC has secured a $2-billion deal to develop a petroleum field in Uganda and help propel the east African nation into the club of oil-producing countries, an official said Friday.

Sudan's foreign minister accused the United States of denying a visa to President Omar al-Bashir, wanted on war crimes charges, barring him from taking part in a UN summit.

A UN peacekeeper from Tanzania has died from injuries he sustained fighting the March 23 movement (M23) rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in August, the United Nations has said.

At least four UN peacekeeping soldiers have been involved in raping a woman in Mali, a report says.

Kenyan officials say the government has launched an investigation into a four-day siege at a partly Israeli-owned shopping mall in Nairobi that killed at least 72 people and destroyed part of the complex.

Seven people have been killed in and around the Sudanese capital as protests over the government's lifting of fuel subsidies entered the third day, witnesses have said.

Two police officers have been killed in an attack carried out by unknown gunmen on a police station in Kenya’s northern town of Mandera, near Somalia.

The death toll from three days of protests over a cut in fuel subsidies in Sudan has reached to nearly 30.

The Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague has confirmed a 50-year jail term handed down to former Liberian president Charles Taylor, judicial sources say.

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe says the West’s hunger for domination of other nations is insatiable, adding the US, Britain and their allies are using sanctions against Harare as a "foreign-policy tool to effect regime change.”

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned Egypt's military-installed interim government for arresting journalists “affiliated” or “sympathetic” to the Muslim Brotherhood, saying the future of democracy is at risk in the North African country.

At least four Egyptian soldiers have been wounded in a bomb explosion in the troubled Sinai Peninsula, security sources say.

Conflicts in small countries are often made worse by international indifference. In the case of the Central African Republic (CAR), however, the problem is a little different. There is a substantial international presence in the country, but the main actors are adopting a wait-and-see attitude rather than pro-actively engaging with the crisis.

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has announcing three days of mourning, in response to the attack on Westgate Mall in Nairobi.