A Cairo court convicted ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak of embezzlement on Wednesday, sentencing him to three years in prison.
Malian soldiers occupied Malian national television in the capital and fired into the air to show their displeasure over treatment of a conflict.
Malian soldiers occupied Malian national television ORTM in the capital on Wednesday and fired into the air to show their displeasure over treatment of a conflict in the north of the country.
Algeria and the European Union (EU) sealed Tuesday a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on sending EU monitors for the Algerian parliamentary elections on May 10.
The United Nations on Tuesday voiced concern over renewed mortar attacks in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia.
Egyptian Christian Copts gather at the Saint Mark's Coptic Cathedral to mourn the late head of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church Pope Shenuda III in Cairo.
Guinea Bissau's former head of military intelligence, Colonel Samba Diallo, was shot dead.
Kenya Wildlife Services (KWS) and the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) is set to begin tracking 10 elephants using satellite technology.
Two Brazilian tourists and their Egyptian guide were kidnapped by armed Bedouins in Egypt's Sinai on Sunday afternoon.
Head of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church Pope Shenuda III died on Saturday at the age of 89, state TV reported.
One person was killed, two others injured on Thursday in an attack by suspected bandits.
More than 50 percent of its people consume alcohol and a third of this group abuse it.
The outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease continued to spread in Egypt with more infected cases of livestock reported, the country's Gazette newspaper reported Wednesday.
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