The expansive balcony at Kevin Oduor's two bedroom flat is a haven of bliss, and ambience more so during weekends, when the young professional does not report to his work station in the central business district of Kenya's capital Nairobi.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon on Saturday condemned the killing of seven Tanzanian peacekeepers in South Darfur, Sudan, calling the attack "heinous."

Former South African President Thabo Mbeki said on Saturday he is confident that ailing anti- apartheid icon Nelson Mandela will be discharged from hospital following improvement in his health.

Two years after the establishment of South Sudan, huge challenges still stand in the way of South Sudanese to realize their aspirations for a better country.

Seven peacekeepers of the UN- African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) were killed and 17 others injured Saturday in an attack by an unidentified group on their patrol in Sudan's South Darfur state, a UNAMID source told Xinhua.

Responding to Ennahdha's call on Friday, hundreds of people staged a pro-Morsi rally in the Tunisian capital on Saturday.

Zimbabwe's electoral commission has pledged to announce the result of the upcoming presidential election within five days.

Senior Muslim Brotherhood officials in Egypt have rejected a plan by Interim President Adli Mansour to hold new presidential elections.

A car bomb has exploded in a market in the center of the Somali capital Mogadishu, with reports of gunfire having been heard following the blast.

Thousands of people have gathered in Cairo’s Nasr City to hold the Muslim prayers for the dead, to bid farewell to the victims of Monday clashes.

The Israeli regime has reportedly warned Washington against cutting military aid to Egypt in response to the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi by the African country’s army.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the killing of dozens of people at a mass protest site in Cairo and called for an independent investigation into the incident.

Egypt's interim president promised to hold parliamentary elections within a six-month transitional period on Monday after more than 50 supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi were killed and 435 others injured in clashes with the army.

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on Monday dismissed several officials in fight against corruption in the West African country.

A diarrhea outbreak has claimed at least 30 lives in South Africa, authorities said on Monday.

Dozens of Mozambican riot police and soldiers raided an empty hide-out of armed supporters of the opposition party Renamo in central Mozambique over the weekend, a police commander said Monday.

Tunisia has extended the state of emergency for another three months, the official TAP press agency reported Monday quoting a statement of the presidency.

The Sudanese government and China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) signed Monday a contract for the construction of Khartoum's new airport at a cost of 700 million U.S. dollars with an implementation period of about 40 months.

The African Union (AU) on Monday called for a coordinated approach from regional and international actors to address the security issue in Central African Republic (CAR).

Tunisian presidency's spokesman announced Monday the appointment of Lieutenant-Colonel Mohamed Salah Hamdi as the new army chief of staff, the official TAP press agency reported.