20111204
Press TV
Leader of Tunisia's Islamic party of al-Nahda Rashid Ghannouchi has warned Saudi Arabia of a revolution in the kingdom if Riyadh does not respect popular demand.

20111204
Press TV
Kenyan fighter jets have bombarded a civilian refugee camp in southern Somalia, killing and wounding dozens of people, Press TV reports.

20111204
Press TV
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood will be the leading party in the next round of Egypt's parliamentary elections, a prominent analyst tells Press TV .

20111204
Press TV
The head of Egypt's election commission says 62 percent of eligible voters cast ballots in the first round of parliamentary elections, hailing the turnout as the highest in Egypt's history.

20111204
Press TV
The United Nations envoy to Ivory Coast has called on the politicians of the West African nation to use the upcoming election to end the political standoff in the country.

20111204
Press TV
Egyptians are staging more demonstrations against the country's military rulers in Cairo, while more protests are in the pipeline elsewhere, Press TV reports.

20111204
Press TV
The South African finance minister says the burgeoning debt crisis in the eurozone is jeopardizing South Africa's economy as the European bloc constitutes Africa's major trading partner.

20111203
Reuters
(Reuters) - "Beltagia, beltagia," were words that once struck fear into the hearts of Egyptians trying to vote in elections under Hosni Mubarak, as they heralded the arrival of hired thugs with sticks, swords and sometimes guns, bent on intimidation.

20111203
Reuters
(Reuters) - Ivory Coast's former president Laurent Gbagbo will appear before the International Criminal Court within days to face charges of crimes against humanity, including murder and rape, the first former head of state to be tried by the ICC since its inception in 2002.

20111203
Reuters
(Reuters) - Congolese opposition candidate Vital Kamerhe on Wednesday withdrew his call for the November 28 presidential and parliamentary elections to be annulled on the grounds of widespread irregularities.

20111203
Reuters
(Reuters) - Egyptians will hear results of their first free election in six decades on Thursday, with the Muslim Brotherhood expecting to pick up two-fifths of the vote for an assembly that might limit the power of the generals.

20111203
Reuters
(Reuters) - Life is about to get a lot better for people like Christopher Mocwane, a worker at one of the world's largest iron ore mines outside this dusty town in the middle of the Kalahari desert.

20111203
Reuters
(Reuters) - Two Americans abducted off the Nigerian coast last month from a vessel contracted to the Chevron oil company have been released, the U.S. embassy in Abuja said on Friday.

20111203
Reuters
(Reuters) - Egypt's foreign reserves will plunge by a third to $15 billion by the end of January and the budget deficit will grow, possibly leading to a review of sensitive subsidies, an army official said on Thursday.

20111203
Reuters
(Reuters) - More than eight million Egyptians voted in the opening round of their first free vote in six decades in what the election chief said Friday was a turnout of 62 percent, far higher than in the rigged polls of deposed President Hosni Mubarak.

20111203
Reuters
(Reuters) - Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo will appear before the International Criminal Court next Monday, the first former head of state to be tried by the ICC since its inception in 2002, officials said.

20111203
Reuters
(Reuters) - Egypt's new prime minister is keeping at least half the ministers unchanged in a new cabinet, state television reported on Thursday, after he was appointed in a bid to assuage voters demanding army rulers quit and that the system be purged.

20111203
Reuters
(Reuters) - The International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor requested an arrest warrant for Sudan's defense minister on Friday as part of the court's investigation into atrocities in the Darfur conflict, a move that Khartoum dismissed as "political."

20111203
Reuters
(Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo's President Joseph Kabila had an early lead in partial election results released on Friday, after a poll marred by confusion, violence and fraud allegations.

20111203
Reuters
(Reuters) - Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara rejected accusations that he had imposed "victors' justice" on his civil war rival by transferring him to the International Criminal Court in The Hague.