The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) says nearly 73,000 gas station attendants and car repair workers are poised to stage walkouts for higher salaries.
Egyptian authorities have closed the main crossing to the besieged Gaza Strip following the deteriorating security situation across the North African country.
An Algerian security source says President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has officially ordered the army to launch military operations against “terrorists” operating near the border with Tunisia and Libya.
Egyptian troops have killed at least 10 people and injured 20 others during a major military offensive against militants in the troubled Sinai Peninsula, security sources say.
A political analyst says Saudi Arabia, Israel and the US orchestrated the military coup in Egypt because a true democracy in the Arab country would have been a threat to the Saudi monarch.
An Egyptian prosecutor has leveled new accusations against ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi for allegedly insulting the country's judiciary when he was president.
Libya’s oil industry has been paralyzed by a blockade of its oil fields under the control of armed groups, making the North African country reduce its output to a tenth of normal levels.
Egyptian military helicopters conducted several air strikes in the Sinai Peninsula on Saturday as armored vehicles surrounded suspected militant hideouts, army officials said.
Aid workers who carried out an emergency mission to the north of strife-torn Central African Republic found villages abandoned and burned, and evidence of widespread rights abuses, the UN refugee agency said Friday.
Swaziland police arrested an opposition leader in a crackdown denied by authorities and broke up an international trade unionist meeting on Friday, said South Africa's main labour union grouping.
Congo's president has made an impression on a small town in recession-hit Spain -- after relaxing at its thermal baths for a few days he left local residents 10,000 euros ($13,000).
Nigeria's military said Friday it had killed 50 Boko Haram Islamists in an operation in the northeast launched in response to an insurgent attack, in the latest violence to hit the region.
A South African university which was forced to close due to labour unrest and maladministration will re-open next week, after workers called off a six-week-long strike, unions and officials said Friday.
The flagship Twitter account of al-Shabab, Somalia's al-Qaida-linked terror group, was closed Friday for the second time this year, less than 24 hours after a U.S.-based terrorism expert reported violations of Twitter's terms of service.
