A number of youths of the Black Bloc Movement have attempted to torch Egypt's High Court in protest over the imprisonment of some of the group’s members.
Nearly a dozen people have died and five others have been injured in a car bomb attack carried out in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, local officials say.
The March 23 movement (M23) rebels have told Tanzania that they will attack and kill its troops if they join a UN mission aimed at neutralizing armed groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzanian Foreign Minister Bernard Membe says.
At least 74 people have been killed and more than 99,000 others displaced as flash floods triggered by heavy downpours struck a number of areas in the East African state of Kenya.
Three people have been killed in Egypt after an online argument on the social networking service, Facebook, over President Mohamed Morsi led to a street fight between his supporters and opponents.
The Polisario Front rebels have denounced Morocco's "systematic repression" in Western Sahara and called on the United Nations Security Council to apply a new resolution urging greater efforts on human rights.
Demonstrators in Egypt have burned Qatari and Israeli flags in protest against what they described as the Persian Gulf state’s interference in their country’s internal affairs.
A jobless man has set himself on fire in the central Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid, where Tunisia's revolution started two years ago, witnesses have said.
Representatives of 35 African political parties have met in the Sudanese capital Khartoum to establish a joint forum meant to increase unity among the African nations.
France’s defense minister has reaffirmed that the country will keep 1,000 troops in Mali to fight armed groups even after the arrival of more than 12,000 UN peacekeepers later this year.
Fellow rebels and lawyers of Darfur rebel leader Saleh Jerbo, charged with war crimes by the International Criminal Court, say he has been killed in Sudan.
