20120304 AFP An Al-Qaeda splinter group claimed Saturday to have carried out a suicide attack on a military base in southern Algeria which left 24 people wounded.
20120304 AFP Egypt's parliament is to probe and "hold accountable" anyone who intervened to allow foreign activists on trial to leave the country, the house speaker said Saturday, as a new trial date was set for the defendants..
20120304 AFP More Senegalese opposition figures said on Saturday they would throw their support behind candidate Macky Sall in his bid to oust long-ruling President Abdoulaye Wade this month.
20120304 AFP A hidden war affecting hundreds of thousands of people as tensions mount between Sudan and the newly independent South Sudan threatens to erupt into direct conflict, analysts and diplomats say.
20120304 AFP A suicide car bomber drove into a gendarme headquarters on Saturday in southern Algeria, injuring 24 people and killing himself, the Internet site of the Arab-language daily En Nahar said.
20120304 Reuters (Reuters) - Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir condemned an International Criminal Court arrest warrant issued for his defense minister, who stood by his side during a speech on Saturday.
20120303 AFP Nigeria on Friday buried former secessionist leader Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, whose declaration of Biafran independence in the 1960s ignited a civil war that left more than a million people dead.
20120303 AFP Zimbabwean leaders have given the committee drafting a new constitution a two-week ultimatum to complete the draft charter, state media reported on Friday.
20120303 AFP Gunmen shot dead a soldier Friday in the northern Nigerian city of Kano where members of the Boko Haram Islamist sect recently killed 185 people in coordinated bomb and gun attacks, residents said.
20120303 AFP Rwandan opposition leader Charles Ntakirutinka vowed to remain critical President Paul Kagame's government as he walked free Thursday at the end of a 10-year prison sentence for incitement.
20120303 AFP Four Nigeria soldiers are missing and presumed dead after an attack by gunmen in the southern oil-rich Niger Delta creeks, the military and a state government said Friday.
20120303 AFP Libyan forces who battled Moamer Kadhafi's troops in 2011 committed war crimes and are still targeting alleged backers of the dead dictator and minority groups, a draft United Nations report published on Friday said.
20120303 AFP Suspected rebels on Friday wounded three Senegalese soldiers in an attack on an army base in the restive southern province of Casamance and one insurgent died, military sources said.
20120303 AFP Kenya launched the construction of a massive port, railway and refinery Friday near a UNESCO-listed Indian Ocean island in a project it bills as the biggest ever in an African nation.
20120303 AFP African Union-backed Somali government troops attacked and seized positions of hardline Shebab insurgents in the war-torn capital Mogadishu on Friday, officials said.
20120303 AFP A military court in Ivory Coast put on trial Friday 28 paramilitary police accused of crimes in the period last year when former president Laurent Gbagbo tried to cling to power, a prosecutor said.
20120303 AFP Senegal opposition candidate Macky Sall has won a major boost in his bid to oust President Abdoulaye Wade in a run-off vote, securing the endorsement of the man who came third in the first round.
20120303 AFP Three sailors abducted when their cargo ship was attacked by pirates off the Nigerian coast this week are "in good health", an armed militant group said Friday.
20120303 AFP UN chief Ban Ki-moon called for "civic responsibility" in Senegal ahead of the second round of an increasingly bitter presidential election.
20120303 AFP Senegal's opposition has urged voters to strike a "killer blow" to incumbent Abdoulaye Wade's bid for a third term as president by electing his rival Macky Sall in a run-off vote this month.
