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Four people were killed and 22 others injured after an explosion hit an oil company in Egypt's Suez city, local hospital sources told Xinhua on Saturday.
The UN Security Council on Saturday decided to send an advance team of up to 30 unarmed military observers to Syria to monitor a ceasefire between the Syrian government forces and armed opposition fighters.
Soldiers arrested Guinea-Bissau's presidential front-runner Carlos Gomes Junior after staging an apparent coup in the west African country.
South Africa's mining output dropped considerably in February, the second consecutive month of decline.
The Nigerian government on Thursday said about 70,000 newly born babies in the West African country are HIV positive.
Former parliament speaker Dioncounda Traore is sworn in as Mali's interim president in the captial Bamako, April 12, 2012.
UN Security Council demanded on Thursday "a complete, immediate, and unconditional" end to all fighting between Sudan and South Sudan.
The Sudanese parliament decided on Wednesday to announce a general mobilization and stop negotiations with South Sudan following a large-scale attack by the South Sudanese army.
Kenya's total tea production for 2012 will drop by 5 percent compared to 2011 when the country harvested 378 million kg.
Two road accidents occurred in the central South Africa on Tuesday, leaving 122 people injured.
The Sudanese army announced on Tuesday that troops from South Sudan had launched a large-scale attack on a strategic oil field on the borders between the two countries.
Six people including four Chinese and two French nationals were found dead in a plane crash in northern Niger, a military source said on Monday.