20111214
AFP
The European Union's election observation mission in the DR Congo added its voice Tuesday to mounting criticism of polls that handed President Joseph Kabila a new five-year term.

20111214
AFP
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara's party was on the cusp of an outright parliamentary majority on Wednesday that may put its political alliances to the test.

20111214
AP
(AP) — An American military drone which had been used to monitor piracy off the East African coast has crashed at an airport on the island nation of Seychelles during a routine patrol, officials said.

20111214
AP
RAS KAMBONI, Somalia (AP) — Kenyan troops and their Somali allies say they will push deeper into insurgent-controlled territory in Somalia now that rains have stopped, as the U.N. called for $1.5 billion in aid for those hit by famine in the Horn of Africa nation.

20111214
AFP
Florence was in mourning Wednesday after an Italian far-right author shot dead two Senegalese men and wounded three others before killing himself in a daylight shooting spree that prompted outpourings of grief.

20111214
AFP
Mongezi Mponco left his village of grassland hills as one of hundreds of thousands of healthy young black men who poured into the deep underground of South Africa's gold mines.

20111213
Islam Times
Libya would allow the British police to enter the country to hold an inquiry into the Lockerbie bombing and murder of PC Yvonne Fletcher, Foreign Minister Alistair Burt said.

20111213
Reuters
(Reuters) - Fatou Bensouda, the first African to be named as chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, has little time for accusations that the Hague-based court has harbored bias against Africa during its nine-year history.

20111213
Reuters
(Reuters) - Rival militias in an area south-west of the Libyan capital exchanged heavy gunfire on Monday after a dispute flared up between them that local residents said had killed at least four people.

20111213
Reuters
(Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila on Monday conceded "mistakes" had been made in last month's election which returned him to power, but rejected mounting criticism that the results lacked credibility.

20111213
Reuters
(Reuters) - Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Monday to show their frustration with leaders who came to power after Muammar Gaddafi was overthrown.

20111213
Reuters
(Reuters) - Tunisia on Monday installed as its new president a former dissident who was imprisoned and then exiled for opposing former President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, a new landmark in the country's post-revolutionary transition to democracy.

20111213
Islam Times
According to the preliminary results that may change, the Egyptian Islamists got in the first round of elections with the relative list 64% of the votes, gaining a clear advantage not on the rest of the forces and parties only, but also on the most optimistic expectations of the leaders of the religious partisan extremist, centrist and moderate blocs likewise.

20111213
Reuters
(Reuters) - Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara's ruling coalition led in partial results from Sunday's legislative election, according to a small sample of preliminary results released on Monday.

20111213
Islam Times
In an interview with the Vice-President of the Supreme Security Committee, Abdul Razzak Al-Aradi, he denied sending rebel fighters to Syria.

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Islam Times
Israel's new ambassador arrives in the Egyptian capital as tensions between Cairo and Tel Aviv continue to escalate with revolutionary Egyptians calling for an end to all ties with the Zionist regime.

20111213
Islam Times
Criticism has ramped up against the ruling military council after the establishment of a civil advisory council without specific roles or authorities.

20111213
Press TV
Tunisia's veteran opposition leader Moncef Marzouki has been elected president, more than a month after the country's first post-revolution election was held.

20111213
Press TV
The United Nation World Food Program (WFP) says scarce precipitation and reduced harvests have faced five to seven million people in Africa's Sahel region with food shortages.

20111213
Press TV
Egypt's biggest political party has accused the country's ruling generals of undercutting the authority of the representatives elected by the people.