A newly formed1 armed rebel group in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) says it is seeking to overthrow President Joseph Kabila and try him for “high treason.”

Egyptian Culture Minister Mohammed Saber Arab has resigned in protest over the police crackdown on protesters over the past week.

A new report says the Lord's Resistance Army has been weakened by military operations against the terrorist group, but it is still active in Central Africa.

US Vice President Joe Biden says Washington and Paris agreed on a need to hand over the French led war in Mali to a UN mission.

Leaders of the five-month-old government in Somalia have said that authorities will do more to protect victims of rape in the Horn of African nation.

The number-three leader of the armed group that controlled Timbuktu in northern Mali until last week, Mohamed Moussa Ag Mouhamed, has been arrested near the Algerian border, sources say.

The tiny kingdom of Swaziland in southern Africa is getting ready for a national parliamentary election this year, amid expectations that the outcome will be a fraud on democracy.

French planes carried out major air strikes in northern Mali overnight, the army reports, after President François Hollande's visit to the country Saturday.

Several clashes have erupted between Egyptian anti-government demonstrators and security forces outside the presidential palace in Cairo.

The Central African Republic’s prime minister has unveiled a new national unity government.

President Francois Hollande says France would continue its combat mission in Mali and French troops will stay in the country as long as necessary.

The war being waged by armed groups in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has displaced thousands of people who live in deplorable conditions, says the ICRC.

The Nigerian government says it is ready to consider a recent ceasefire proposal by the Boko Haram sect, an extremist group which has waged a campaign of terror in northern Nigeria for almost four years.

Four people, including a French citizen, have been killed during clashes between suspected separatist rebels and security forces in southern Senegal, army sources say.

Egypt’s main opposition group says President Mohamed Morsi should face trial over crimes of “killing and torture.”

Outraged protesters have hurled stones and bottles at Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Qandil’s motorcade in the capital, Cairo.

Egyptian riot police have been deployed near the presidential palace following clashes between protesters and security forces that killed one person and wounded dozens.

French President Francois Hollande has arrived in Mali nearly four weeks after France launched a war against the West African country.

The United Nations has expressed concern over serious allegations of summary executions since the start of the French war in Mali.

At least one person has been killed in clashes between protesters and security forces outside Egypt's presidential palace, as President Mohamed Morsi vows "decisive" police action.