20111207
Reuters
(Reuters) - The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) won 34 individual seats of the 45 it contested in the first run-off vote of a parliamentary election, a party source said on Wednesday.

20111207
Reuters
(Reuters) - Results in the Democratic Republic of Congo presidential election have been delayed for a further two days as returns have not been received from all polling stations, officials said on Tuesday.

20111207
Reuters
(Reuters) - Egypt's new prime minister said on Tuesday the ruling army would grant him extra powers, and appointed a finance minister along with most other cabinet members, state media reported.

20111207
Reuters
(Reuters) - The Muslim Brotherhood promised Egyptians voting in a run-off on Tuesday it would work in a broad coalition if its party wins parliamentary elections, saying it hoped to avoid a showdown with the ruling military council.

20111207
Reuters
(Reuters) - A suicide bomber struck the Somali capital on Tuesday, the latest in a wave of deadly attacks in Mogadishu, and dozens of Islamist rebels and Somali government troops have been killed in fighting in the south.

20111207
Reuters
(Reuters) - Egypt's new prime minister said on Tuesday the ruling army would grant him extra powers, the state news agency reported, after critics accused the military of failing to give the last cabinet enough clout.

20111207
Reuters
(Reuters) - Congo electoral officials struggled to finish counting votes from last week's presidential election on Tuesday, sending helicopters to remote polling stations in an effort to meet a midnight deadline.

20111207
Reuters
(Reuters) - Rival Islamists in Egypt's parliamentary election played up their differences in a first-round run-off vote, with the top-placed Muslim Brotherhood anxious to show a moderate face to Egyptians hungry for stability.

20111207
Reuters
(Reuters) - Clashes erupted between protesters and security forces in parts of Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday as diplomats scrambled to defuse tensions ahead of the country's full election results.

20111207
Reuters
(Reuters) - Former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo appeared at the International Criminal Court on Monday to face charges of crimes against humanity, the first former head of state expected to be tried by the court since its inception in 2002.

20111207
Reuters
(Reuters) - Egyptians voted on Monday in run-off contests for parliamentary seats, with the Muslim Brotherhood's party trying to extend its lead over hardline Islamists and liberal parties in a political landscape redrawn by the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak.

20111207
Reuters
(Reuters) - Economic crisis and the top three polluters China, the United States and India, loomed as obstacles to a new global deal at the start of a second make-or-break week of U.N. climate talks in the South African city of Durban.

20111204
Reuters
(Reuters) - Opposition parties in the Democratic Republic of Congo rejected partial results on Saturday that showed a lead for President Joseph Kabila in a November 28 election, and called on African leaders to act to prevent violence.

20111204
Reuters
(Reuters) - Sudan may still expel Kenya's ambassador after two weeks if Kenya does not take steps to cancel a Nairobi court ruling to arrest Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir, the foreign ministry said Saturday.

20111204
Reuters
(Reuters) - One local official was killed and a militia base reduced to ruins in a clash between rival armed groups near the Libyan capital, the latest flare-up of tension between militias that is destabilising the new Libya.

20111204
Reuters
(Reuters) - Israel voiced deep concern Saturday at the electoral rise of hostile Islamism in Egypt but urged the Arab power to consider it had "no alternative" to maintaining its peace accord with the Jewish state.

20111204
Reuters
(Reuters) - Egypt is not ready for a decision on funding from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the government said on Saturday in a statement that named Mumtaz al-Saeed as the country's new finance minister.

20111204
Reuters
(Reuters) - Thousands of Tunisian Islamists and secularists staged parallel protests outside the interim parliament on Saturday in a dispute over how big a role Islam should play in society after the country's "Arab Spring" revolution.

20111204
Reuters
(Reuters) - In a front-page cartoon showing a ballot box full of votes locked away for safe-keeping while a group of citizens look on, Kinshasa daily Le Potentiel catches the mood of post-election Congo.

20111204
Press TV
At least 25 people have been killed and scores others wounded in a new wave of violence that rocked different parts of war-torn Somalia, Press TV reports.