Ghana is eyeing gold medals in the upcoming African Junior Tennis championship slated for Kenya from March 18-23.

Millions of Zimbabweans are expected to vote Saturday on a draft constitution that will for the first time limit the term of a president.

The death toll from a bus crash in South Africa on Friday has risen to 22, the authorities said.

Six people were killed and eight injured in a car crash on Ismailia-Zagazig desert highway in Egypt, north of the capital Cairo, official news agency MENA reported Friday.

Six passengers were killed and five others rescued after a microbus overturned in a canal in Upper Egypt's governorate of Sohag, some 400 km south of the capital Cairo, official news agency MENA reported Friday.

The UN envoy dealing with Western Sahara, Christopher Ross, will travel to North Africa next week for consultations on the next phase of negotiations aimed at resolving the long-running conflict in the region, a UN spokesman announced here on Friday.

Gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram militant sect attacked a prison in the northeastern Nigeria, killing a resident and setting free hundreds of inmates, a police source told Xinhua on Friday.

Ghana's parliament on Friday approved the government's budget estimates for the 2013 fiscal year, targeting an annual growth of 8.0 percent and an inflation of 8.9 percent to 9.0 percent.

A fire ripped through a shanty town near Cape Town in South Africa on Friday, killing two people and leaving thousands homeless, authorities said.

Egyptian journalists elected Friday political researcher and journalist Diaa Rashwan, head of Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, as new chairman of the country's Journalists' Syndicate.

The flow of cargo at Malaba and Busia border posts in eastern Uganda was returning back to normal following the conclusion of the Kenyan elections.

Egypt's Administrative Court decided Wednesday to consider an appeal submitted to challenge a previous ruling suspending the parliamentary elections on Sunday.

The Central African Republic's government has denounced any attempts to disrupt efforts to restore normalcy and called for dialogue as stipulated in the Libreville agreement, an official said on Tuesday.

The Djibouti President Ismail Omar Guelleh on Tuesday congratulated Kenya's president-elect Uhuru Kenyatta.

The Ethiopian embassy in Saudi Arabia is considering suing individuals and the media for defaming members of Ethiopian community, according to Al Hayat newspaper Wednesday.

Zimbabwe's inclusive government has yet to decide on whether to ban observers from certain foreign countries for the weekend's constitutional referendum and elections later this year, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said Tuesday

Libyan health minister said Tuesday that the number of people poisoned by drinking contaminated alcohol in Tripoli has increased to 709, with 60 dead, within hours.

Nigeria's police in northwest Kano State on Tuesday said gunmen riding on motorcycles attacked a primary school in the metropolis, injuring at least three teachers.

Kenya's Coalition of Reform and Democracy (CORD) which came second in the just concluded general elections on Tuesday moved to court to seek court orders to compel the electoral body and mobile service provider, Safaricom to disclose some information needed for its presidential petition.

Tunisian lawmakers have approved the new cabinet line-up amid the political crisis in the North African country.