Botswana has pumped out 22 million pula (approximately 2.7 million U.S. dollars) from the country's national disaster fund purse for construction of housing units to compensate flood victims.

Algeria on Friday denied reports that it is mediating between the Syrian administration and the opposition.

A military helicopter crashed Friday afternoon near the U.S. embassy in the Tunisian capital of Tunis, Mosaique FM reported.

The number of refugees from the Central African Republic (CAR) in the region has swelled to more than 37,000 since the conflict began last December, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said Friday.

A military helicopter crashed Friday afternoon near the U.S. embassy in the Tunisian capital of Tunis, Mosaique FM reported.

Central African Republic's self-declared president will hold elections within 18 months despite initially saying that he would rule until 2016, a spokesman said Thursday.

Public television in the Cape Verde Islands says U.S. authorities operating at sea have arrested a former navy chief of the small West African nation of Guinea-Bissau who is suspected of being a kingpin in the international drug trade.

South Sudan provided logistical, financial and political support — but not weapons — to rebels fighting Sudanese government forces, according to a report from the Small Arms Survey, an independent Swiss research group.

Activists say Tanzania's government is preparing to kick Maasai tribesmen off their land near the country's most famous wildlife park to allow a company from the United Arab Emirates to use the land for hunting.

South Africa's government says Nelson Mandela "continues to make steady improvement" as he spends a 7th day in a hospital being treated for a recurring lung infection that developed into pneumonia.

Authorities say 18 people have been killed in a head-on collision between two buses in central Nigeria.

At least 18 people were killed when a building collapsed Friday in the Tanzania's largest city, Dar es Salaam, police said Saturday, as hopes dimmed of rescuing more survivors.

Nelson Mandela is making "steady progress" while being treated for a recurring lung infection and he had a full breakfast on Friday, South African authorities said.

A Tanzanian police official says two people have died after a building under construction collapsed in the country's largest city and economic center.

A delegation of 12 people who include the wife and family members of the Central African Republic's deposed leader Francois Bozize arrived at Batouri in eastern Cameroon on Tuesday, local officials told Xinhua.

The establishment of a BRICS development bank, marine cable an trade and development risk pool will spur the five nations to greater cooperation while removing dependency on the developed world, South African President Jacob Zuma said on Wednesday.

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi said that the country's parliamentary elections are likely to be held in October, official MENA news agency reported Wednesday.

Egypt's Court of Appeal overturned Wednesday a decision issued by President Mohamed Morsi to depose then Prosecutor-General Abdel-Maguid Mahmoud, and ordered to bring him back to his seat, official MENA news agency reported.

French soldiers have shot and killed two Indians when they opened fire on vehicles approaching the airport in the capital of the Central African Republic (CAR).

Unknown gunmen have shot and killed a female radio journalist in Somalia in the latest of a string of fatal attacks targeting members of media in the lawless Horn of Africa nation.