In a further move in developing clean energy, South Africa will build a wind farm which will generate up to 100 MW of power, it was announced on Monday.
Fighting between army soldiers and rebels from the armed group M23 Movement broke out on Monday in North-Kivu provincial capital of Goma in eastern DR Congo, according to local sources.
Algeria plans to build its first nuclear plant in 2025 to cope with the country's soaring electricity consumption, the official APS news agency reported Sunday, citing Minister of Energy and Mines, Yousef Yousfi.
Somali government said on Sunday that it was ill advised for the authorities in the northern breakaway region of Somaliland to issue ban on UN flights into the region and ground world body's aircraft at the local airports.
A protester was killed on Sunday in Tunisian capital during clashes between police and a hardline Salafist group that was banned from holding their congress, official TAP news agency said.
South African President Jacob Zuma was not involved in a wedding scandal in which a private plane of the affluent and well-connected Indian Gupta family landed at a sensitive military airbase, an investigation revealed on Sunday.
South Sudan on Sunday refuted any relationship between delaying the visit of its President Salva Kiir Mayardit to Khartoum to mid-June and Khartoum's accusations of Juba being behind a recent rebel attack on areas in western Sudan region.
Tunisian police used teargas on Sunday to disperse a Salafist meeting in the popular district of Ettadhamen west of the capital, the official TAP press agency reported.
Egyptian police have closed the main crossing to the besieged Gaza Strip following the kidnapping of several security personnel in the troubled Sinai region.
The Nigerian army has vowed to press ahead with a war on Boko Haram militants in the northeast as it imposed a 24-hour curfew in parts of the city of Maiduguri.
Kenyan police on Sunday morning shot dead two terrorist suspects in a security operation, which took several hours in a residential estate in Nairobi, the capital of East Africa's largest economy.
At least 47 people were reportedly missing following a landslide in the eastern province of North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo), local sources disclosed on Sunday.
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said Saturday that his visit to Algeria aims at deepening the bilateral relations both on the political and economic levels between Algiers and Berlin.
Nigerian troops operating in northeast Borno State said on Saturday that 65 rebels had been apprehended so far by officers of the Special Task Force (STF).
Military authority on Saturday imposes 24 hours of curfew on Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri following the commencement of offensive against the Boko Haram insurgents in the area.
