ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's ruling party looked set to see its parliamentary majority weaken as results trickled in on Sunday from an election Africa's most populous nation hopes will be its first credible vote in almost two decades.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's public prosecutor summoned ousted president Hosni Mubarak as part of investigations into the killing of protesters and embezzlement of public funds, the prosecutor said on Sunday.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's public prosecutor has detained former Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif for 15 days as part of investigations into squandering of public funds, a statement said on Sunday.
CAIRO (Reuters) - More than 1,000 protestors ignored an army order to leave Cairo's main square on Sunday, taking their calls for a quick move to civilian rule and a deeper purge of corrupt officials into a third day.
AJDABIYAH, Libya (Reuters) - NATO aircraft hit six vehicles carrying Libyan government soldiers during an assault on the eastern town of Ajdabiyah on Sunday, killing at least 15.
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - South African President Jacob Zuma arrived in Tripoli on Sunday as part of a delegation of five African leaders seeking to mediate in Libya's conflict.
PARIS (Reuters) - Lawyers for Ivory Coast's presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara asked United Nations and French forces on Sunday to eliminate incumbent Laurent Gbagbo's heavy weapons and militia and bring him to justice.
DEHIBA, Tunisia (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's forces are shelling homes, poisoning wells and threatening to rape women in a remote mountain region, out of sight of the outside world, said people who fled the area.
Minna/Kaduna/ Abuja — Barely a month after a bomb blast rocked the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Niger East senatorial campaign flag-off killing 10 and injuring many others in Suleja, Niger State, another bomb explosion occurred Friday at the Suleja office of the Independent National Electoral Commission.
About twenty-five persons were killed as bomb explosion rocked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office located in the Kwamba area of Suleja, Niger State on Friday.
The French army was forced to abort a mission to evacuate foreign diplomats from Abidjan on Saturday, after coming under fire from forces loyal to Laurent Gbagbo who is fighting to retain the presidency against Alassane Ouattara.
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Forces loyal to Laurent Gbagbo, besieged in Ivory Coast's main city, have retaken ground and are edging closer to where rival presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara is holed up, the United Nations said.
AJDABIYAH, Libya (Reuters) - A buoyant Muammar Gaddafi made his first television appearance for five days on Saturday and his troops engaged rebels in new fighting on the eastern front in Libya's civil war.
LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigerians voted in a delayed parliamentary election on Saturday, determined to hold a credible poll in Africa's most populous nation despite chaotic organisation and violence.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters turned their anger on the army on Saturday demanding that Egypt's ruling military council hand power to civilians and pressing for former President Hosni Mubarak to be put on trial.
DJIBOUTI (Reuters) - Djibouti's President Ismail Omar Guelleh garnered 80.58 percent of votes cast in the country's elections on Friday, provisional results showed on Saturday, giving him a third term in power.
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Residents of Abidjan headed out of Ivory Coast's main city by foot or ramshackle bus on Saturday, seeking safety, medicine or simply something to eat.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Libyan opposition group is asking the United States for immediate access to frozen assets of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to pay for humanitarian needs in rebel-held areas.
