20111226
AFP
Libya's transitional government said on Sunday that it will next month begin registering fighters who helped to topple Moamer Kadhafi, hoping to integrate them within the security services.

20111226
AFP
A key rebel movement from Sudan's Darfur region vowed to press on with its agenda for national reform on Sunday after confirming that government forces had killed their leader.

20111226
AFP
The Islamist-inspired Justice and Equality Movement -- whose leader was reported on Sunday to have been killed by Sudanese forces -- is a Darfur-based rebel movement with an agenda for national reform.

20111226
AFP
The Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram, which claimed a wave of Christmas bombings that left at least 35 people dead, has carried out scores of attacks that have grown increasingly sophisticated.

20111226
AP
A look at recent major attacks in Nigeria attributed to the radical Muslim sect known locally as Boko Haram:

20111225
AFP
Toulouse's South Africa hooker Gary Botha broke his right leg in Friday's French Top 14 win over Montpellier and will be ruled out for up to four months.

20111225
AFP
Thousands turned out for rival protests in Cairo on Friday, exposing the widening rifts among Egyptians over the ruling military's handling of transition from Hosni Mubarak's rule.

20111225
AFP
Democratic Republic of Congo opposition chief Etienne Tshisekedi, who rejects Joseph Kabila's re-election as president, had himself "sworn in" at his home as police clashed with his supporters.

20111225
AFP
Several hundred supporters of ex-Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo protested Saturday outside the International Criminal Court (ICC) prison where he is spending Christmas behind bars.

20111225
AFP
Egypt's main Islamist parties won 65 percent of votes for party lists in the second round of a historic election for a new parliament after Hosni Mubarak's ouster, the electoral committee said Saturday.

20111225
AFP
Police arrested a top official of Liberia's main opposition Congress for Democratic Change overnight as the capital was under curfew after rioting by unpaid government workers, party sources said Saturday.

20111225
AFP
Burkina Faso will host African Cup of Nations co-hosts Gabon in a pre-tournament friendly on January 9 in Franceville, the Burkinabe Football Federation (FBF) announced Saturday.

20111225
AFP
Nelson Mandela's grandson will tie the knot with a third wife in a traditional ceremony Saturday despite a court ban on the wedding, according to a report.

20111225
AFP
More than half of Niger's farming villages face food shortages in the next few months after poor harvests, Agriculture Minister Oua Seydou told parliament Saturday.

20111225
AFP
Tunisia's new government was sworn in on Saturday by the country's president, who told the ministers to get straight down to work.

20111225
AFP
Attacks blamed on Islamist group Boko Haram followed by a heavy military crackdown have killed up to 100 people in the north of Nigeria, authorities and a rights group said Saturday.

20111225
AFP
The surviving children of Libya's dead dictator Moamer Kadhafi are determined to destabilise the country, National Transitional Council chief Mustafa Abdel Jalil said on Saturday.

20111225
AFP
Six people were wounded in Kenya on Saturday when a grenade exploded in a bar in a town bordering Somalia, the latest such attack since Nairobi sent troops into its war-torn neighbour, police said.

20111225
AP
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Fighting between a radical Muslim sect and paramilitary forces in Nigeria has killed at least 61 people over several days of violence in the nation's northeast that has left churches bombed and people hiding in fear, authorities said.

20111225
AFP
Sudan's army killed a key rebel leader from the Darfur region, state media reported Sunday, three days after anti-government forces said they had begun advancing on the capital Khartoum.