A Cairo court convicted ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak of embezzlement on Wednesday, sentencing him to three years in prison.
Unknown assailant shot dead a lawmaker in the Somali transitional federal parliament in the capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, official and eyewitness said.
The arrest of Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi will be a matter of time, chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The.
Egyptian Muslims began to celebrate Eid al-Adha (Feast of Sacrifice) on Sunday amid parliamentary election campaigns.
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on Monday reiterated the government's resolve in dealing with the militant group based inside Somalia.
US President Barack Obama on Monday hailed the second-round presidential elections set to begin in Liberia on Tuesday.
Official campaign for the 2011 run-off presidential election in Liberia scheduled for Tuesday ends mid-night Sunday, according to the National Election Commission guideline.
The UN Security Council on Sunday called upon "all Liberian stakeholders to exercise maximum restraint" as the voters in the are expected to cast their ballots in the Nov 8 presidential run-off election.
A total of eight people were killed in a spate of fires across the Western Cape at the weekend, authorities said on Sunday.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday lashed out at an attack on a patrol of the African Union - United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID), the war-torn region of Sudan.
US officials warned Sunday that luxury hotels in Nigeria frequented by foreigners may be bombed by a radical Muslim sect.
Officials at the Damaturu General Hospital told Xinhua that over 100 dead bodies were lying at the morgue as of Saturday noon.
The police arrested three men on Friday for allegedly engaging in homosexual practice in the port of Tema, 38 km east of the capital Accra.
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