Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei in a meeting with Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza underlined Tehran's positive look at the African countries and its support for their progress.

At least eight Egyptians have been injured in clashes between protesters and police during a rally to mark the founding of an opposition group.

French forces have launched one of their largest offensives against what they claim to be extremist militants in the West African country, Mali.

Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi has condemned recent deadly clashes between Christians and Muslims that followed the funeral of four Coptic Christians in Cairo.

The South African government is scheduled to dispatch troops to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as part of UN Organization Stabilization Mission (MONUSCO).

One person has been killed and several others wounded in Cairo in the latest sectarian violence between Christians and Muslims which followed the funeral of Coptic Christians, officials say.

Police forces have clashed with pro-government Tunisians who had gathered to protest against the meeting of an opposition party.

Several people have been reportedly injured in clashes which followed the funeral of Coptic Christians in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.

Two people were killed and 89 others injured in clashes that erupted Sunday outside Egypt's main church in Cairo during a mass funeral of several Christians who have recently been killed in a sectarian brawl, a health ministry official told Xinhua on Monday.

At least nine people were killed and four others went missing in floods caused by heavy rains that hit the Angolan capital of Luanda and its outskirts Saturday, the state news agency Angop reported Sunday.

Mozambican President Armando Guebuza said Sunday that his government is doing all the best maintain law and order to guarantee Mozambicans not live in fear.

The Qatari embassy in Tunis on Sunday denied Doha's involvement in the assassination of a leading Tunisian opposition figure, Shems FM reported

The South African government confirmed on Sunday that its armed forces will dispatch troops to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as part of a UN intervention force.

Nigeria's main militant group said on Sunday they killed more than 15 security forces during a fierce gunfight at Azuzama area of southern Bayelsa State the previous day.

An Egyptian criminal court acquitted Sunday former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq of corruption and public fund squandering charges in absentia, official MENA news agency reported.

Egypt's Supreme Judiciary Council on Sunday urged Talaat Ibrahim Abdullah to resign as prosecutor- general after his legitimacy in the post was called into question by a recent court ruling, official news agency MENA reported.

Egypt's administrative court ruled on Saturday not to suspend a satirist's TV show accused of mocking the president and blasphemy, official news agency MENA reported.

Three Coptic and one Muslim were killed Saturday in clashes between two families in northeastern Egypt, state-run Ahram Online reported, without mentioning the reasons behind the brawl.

All South African troops have returned home from the Central African Republic (CAR), the South African National Defense Union (SANDU) said on Friday.

Heavy downpour that began late March in Kenya is wreaking havoc in some parts of the East African nation, disrupting transport and electricity supply with numerous properties becoming flooded.