India and South Africa cricket chiefs are to meet in Dubai this month to defuse a row over the scheduling of an upcoming tour between the two countries, Cricket South Africa said on Friday.

Former Libyan intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi’s daughter has been abducted after leaving a prison in the country's capital, Tripoli.

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has warned about the situation in Somalia, saying the African country may slide back into being a failed state.

The Kenyan parliament is expected to hold a session to debate ending the country’s membership of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir says his government will allow South Sudan to export its oil through northern pipelines and the Red Sea port city of Port Sudan.

An Egyptian military court has sentenced 11 Muslim Brotherhood members to life in prison as the government continues its clampdown on supporters of the country’s largest political group.

The Egyptian military has killed eight militants and wounded 15 others in airstrikes in the restive Sinai Peninsula, where the Army has been battling insurgents over the past months.

An Egyptian court has ordered a Muslim Brotherhood TV channel to be taken off the air permanently, accusing it of attempting to cause disunity in the country.

Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamed has escaped unscathed from the ambush carried out by militants in the country, reports say.

The General-Secretary of South Africa’s National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) says members of the group are set to stage walkouts over layoffs and living conditions.

The United Nations says March 23 movement (M23) rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) “must disarm” and “cease violence”.

A panel of Egyptian judges has advised an administrative court in the North African country to dissolve the Muslim Brotherhood.

The Egyptian government is reportedly planning to impose a buffer zone along its border with the Gaza Strip to reduce violence in the Sinai Peninsula.

Tens of thousands of gold miners are set to go on strike Tuesday after wage talks broke down, threatening to cost millions of dollars in lost output in the troubled sector.

A protracted strike in South Africa's gold industry would harm Africa's largest economy and the government is ready to intervene to bring parties together, the mining minister said on Tuesday.

South Africa's peace icon Nelson Mandela is facing a long and uncertain road to recovery, despite his return home from nearly three months in hospital, medical experts said on Monday.

Aminata Toure, a rights activist who was named Senegal's new prime minister Sunday, is known for her toughness and crackdowns on high-level corruption that have even targeted her ex-husband.

South Africans on Monday welcomed Nelson Mandela's discharge from a hospital after nearly three months of treatment amid concerns that his health remains so poor that he still must receive intensive care at home.

Thousands of protesters descended on the Central African Republic's capital Monday to call for peace in the strife-torn country, which has been beset by reports of widespread rape and violence since a March coup.

The M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo "must disarm", UN special envoy Mary Robinson said Monday during a visit to the conflict-torn area as Congolese troops readied to seize a rebel stronghold.