Three leaders of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood are to go on trial on charges of ‘inciting violence’ after the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi on July 3.
Nigerian authorities have rescued 25 children from an illegal orphanage where they were being kept inside a single room and being offered for sale, officials said Friday, the country's latest case of child trafficking.
The rebels invaded on stolen motorcycles at 5 a.m., shooting into the air to announce their arrival in the secluded village in Central African Republic.
The interior minister says Nigeria has deported 22,000 illegal migrants to neighboring countries in a crackdown related to an Islamic uprising in the northeast.
South Africa says it is contributing 1,345 troops to a United Nations military mission with a mandate to fight rebel groups in eastern Congo in an effort to bring peace to the country.
Rampant police corruption is impeding Liberia's development a decade after its 14-year civil war ended, and abuses should be reined in as the United Nations scales back its presence in the West African country, Human Rights Watch said.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, Africa's oldest leader at 89, was sworn in on Thursday for a new five-year term in the face of criticism from opponents and the West that his re-election in a July vote was not credible.
A Malian jihadist group says it is joining forces with Islamic extremists who are loyal to the alleged mastermind of an attack on an Algerian gas plant.
South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers said its 90,000 members in the construction industry would go on strike from Monday over demands for higher wages.
Mali's president-elect Ibrahim Boubacar Keita pledged on Wednesday to choose a cabinet based on competence rather than party affiliation or family ties, a sign he will break a tradition of weak consensus governments.
Britain said on Thursday that the re-election of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe could not be deemed credible without an independent investigation into allegations of voting irregularities.
Slovenia has suspended all its charter flights to Egypt due to growing tensions in the African country where more than 500 people were killed in the authorities' crackdown on demonstrators.
The South Africans on Saturday launched twin important events to commemorate the 95-year-old anti- apartheid icon, Nelson Mandela, who remains hospitalized in Pretoria.
Kenyan police on Saturday intensified a major manhunt for heavily armed suspected Al-Shabaab militants who killed four police officers and burned down a security camp in northern county of Garissa near border with Somalia.
Madagascar's Special Electoral Court (CES) late Saturday cancelled eight candidacies including those of the three controversial contenders to run in this year's presidential elections.
