Zimbabwe on Monday began the month- long voter registration, an important step towards holding the presidential, parliamentary, and local elections possibly within two months.
Egyptian Prime Minister Hesham Qandil on Monday underscored the Nile River's water supply as national security following Ethiopia's recent diversion of an upstream tributary in preparation for building a dam.
Nearly 30 people have been killed and several others injured in clashes between protesters and armed militiamen in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, Libyan officials say.
Egypt's Shura Council (upper house of parliament) on Sunday agreed in principle to delay the right of police and military personnel to vote until 2020, official MENA news agency reported.
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir has ordered the stoppage of oil transfers through Sudanese territory from South Sudan, saying the government of President Salva Kiir is supporting rebels in Sudan.
South Africa will use its membership to the BRICS to further strengthen trade and investment, and integrate Africa with the world's fastest growing and most dynamic economies, a government official said on Sunday.
Sudan's National Intelligence and Security Service chief Mohamed Atta on Sunday accused South Sudan of continuing supporting the Revolutionary Front rebel forces.
Two South African companies have been blacklisted by the United States for allegedly involving in billions of dollars of operations on behalf of the leadership of Iran, a newspaper report said on Sunday.
A spokesman for Ghana's immigration service said that 161 Chinese nationals, who were arrested for illegal gold mining this week, will be deported to China.
Ethiopia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Thursday it is demanding an official explanation from Egypt after comments from politicians suggesting Egypt attack or sabotage a Nile River dam Ethiopia is building.
Military commanders promised a tour of this northeast Nigeria city, the birthplace of the nation's Islamic extremist insurgency, to show the busy streets and people selling fruits from wheelbarrows pressed right up against the road.
The European Union Naval Force says Somali pirates who took control of a cargo vessel with 14 Indian sailors on board fled after counter piracy ships from the EU and NATO responded.
Niger's government spokesman said that 22 prisoner escaped this weekend during an attack on the central prison by suspected militants from the Islamic extremist group, Boko Haram, headquartered in Nigeria, Niger's larger neighbor to the south.
An independent panel of experts has concluded that the country's multi-billion dollar hydropower dam being built on the Nile River will not significantly affect Sudan and Egypt, countries that are highly dependent on the water of the world's longest river, said an Ethiopian official.
A man suspected of being an extremist ran for cover inside an abandoned house in the northern Malian city of Kidal, and detonated an explosive vest inside the structure, killing only himself.
Birds twittering in the trees are among the few signs of life in Carter Camp, an abandoned former workers' housing compound now overgrown with untamed grass and where hundreds of bodies are buried in an unmarked mass grave.
South Africa's opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) claimed on Sunday that slain Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's former Chief of Staff, Bashir Saleh, is hidding in South Africa.
UN has called for faster resolution of the Somali crisis to save Kenya, the country hosting thousands of refugees from the Horn of Africa nation, from various challenges, said a statement issued on Sunday.
