20111211
Press TV
Ivory Coast is preparing for parliamentary elections in what seems to be a reminder of the tense run-up to the last year's presidential poll that plunged the country into months of deadly violence.

20111211
Reuters
(Reuters) - The army has said only parliament will choose the make-up of a constituent assembly, appearing to retreat from earlier statements that riled Islamists and others when a general said unelected bodies would have a role in the selection process.

20111211
Reuters
(Reuters) - A gunbattle broke out overnight when armed men in the vehicles of Libya's new national army tried to take control of Tripoli's international airport from a powerful militia, the commander of the airport's security force said Sunday.

20111211
Reuters
(Reuters) - Senior figures in Libya's new leadership have written a letter to the United Nations asking it to release funds still frozen three months after the country's civil war ended, the central bank chief said on Saturday.

20111211
Reuters
(Reuters) - Gunfire erupted in parts of Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday, with reports of police firing live ammunition and crowds ransacking shops, a day after election authorities declared President Joseph Kabila re-elected.

20111211
Reuters
(Reuters) - Zimbabwe's 87-year-old president Robert Mugabe on Saturday brushed aside calls to step down, telling supporters who endorsed him as candidate in the next presidential election that he would not quit as long as the West maintained sanctions on his party.

20111211
Reuters
(Reuters) - A warplane bombed a rebel-held town in southern Somalia Saturday, hitting an empty feeding center run by the Somali Red Crescent Society (SRCS) and killing one civilian, residents said.

20111211
Reuters
(Reuters) - President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf said the main challenges for Liberia in a "difficult" period after a controversial election were reconciliation and finding work for former child soldiers.

20111211
Reuters
(Reuters) - Brussels police arrested about 200 people Friday night after violent demonstrations in the Belgian capital against the re-election of President Joseph Kabila in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

20111211
Reuters
(Reuters) - The main challenger in Democratic Republic of Congo's election declared himself president on Friday and poured scorn on provisional official results handing victory to the incumbent, Joseph Kabila.

20111211
Reuters
(Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday urged Congolese to avoid violence in any dispute over the provisional results of Congo's presidential election, which indicate Joseph Kabila was re-elected.

20111211
Reuters
(Reuters) - The man set to become Morocco's first Islamist prime minister said Friday his government would not try to make women dress more modestly.

20111210
Reuters
(Reuters) - Election authorities in Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday delayed the announcement of a winner in the country's presidential election for the second time this week, citing the need to cross-check results.

20111210
Reuters
(Reuters) - Algeria's Islamists, in the political wilderness since their last attempt to win power dissolved into civil war, are now trying again, galvanized by the success of their brethren elsewhere in north Africa in the wake of the "Arab Spring".

20111210
Reuters
(Reuters) - Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, doing well in parliamentary elections, said on Thursday it would shun a new council set up by military rulers to help oversee the drafting of a new constitution.

20111210
Reuters
(Reuters) - Mexico uncovered and stopped an international plot to smuggle late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's son Saadi into the country using fake names and false papers, authorities said Wednesday.

20111210
Reuters
(Reuters) - Menaced by a gang of fellow Somalis on a London bus, Adam Mataan took a stand against the tribalism he fled in his homeland, and emerged stronger for confronting what he and like-minded Somalis see as deadly clan divisions.

20111210
Reuters
(Reuters) - Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood won a majority of run-off contests in the first round of a parliamentary election, the electoral commission said on Wednesday, to consolidate its position as the clear front-runner.

20111210
Reuters
(Reuters) - Egypt's army said it has not accepted a $3.2 billion financing facility from the International Monetary Fund because it did not want to build up debts while it was in power for a transitional period.

20111210
Reuters
(Reuters) - Egypt's army rulers issued a decree on Wednesday handing presidential powers to Prime Minister Kamal al-Ganzouri but kept control of military affairs and the judiciary, the official news agency said.