Madagascar's ousted president has tried to end his exile in South Africa but his commercial plane was forced to turn back mid-flight when the landing was blocked by the populist former disc jockey who toppled him.
An Arab League committee on Syria will ask Arab foreign ministers on Sunday to extend a peace mission in the country by one month, an Arab government source said.
More than 1,20,000 people need humanitarian aid because of a wave of ethnic clashes in a remote and volatile region of South Sudan, the United Nations has said, underscoring the challenges the world's newest nation faces six months after independence.
At least 14 people were killed when multiple explosive devices struck a police truck transporting prisoners in a tense area of northwestern Syria today, the state-run news agency and an opposition group said.
Angry protesters stormed the offices of Libya's National Transitional Council in the eastern city of Benghazi on Saturday after besieging the building for hours, an NTC member told AFP.
The Libyan regime of Muammar Gaddafi possessed mustard gas shells which it had not declared as a member of the Organisation for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons, the OPCW said today.
Dressed in green military fatigues and clutching CVs under their arms, young Libyans who fought Muammar Gaddafi are now signing up to register for government jobs.
Coordinated bomb attacks and gun battles in Nigeria's second-largest city have killed at least 28 people, a witness and sources said Saturday, with bodies in the streets of one neighbourhood.
Two days of fierce clashes between the Malian army and Tuareg rebels killed 47 people --45 rebels and two soldiers, the west African nation's defence ministry has said in a statement.
Almost a decade after government-backed Janjaweed militias began a "genocide" in Sudan's Darfur, shootings, rapes, looting and arson continue, residents say.
Gunmen killed five Europeans trekking near Ethiopia's famed Erta Ale volcano and kidnapped two others, officials said on Wednesday, in the region's worst attack on tourists in years.
An increasingly vocal Islamist group says its leader has been appointed to represent an al-Qaeda-linked Somali militia in Kenya, a development that underscores the dangers Kenya faces from Somalia's insurgency.
Kenyan jets bombed an al Shabaab rebel base in southern Somalia on Sunday, killing a family of seven as well as seven fighters from the insurgent group linked to al Qaeda, residents said.
Hundreds of armed attackers from a South Sudanese tribe that suffered a devastating assault last month charged into three villages, burned them to the ground and killed 57 people, an official said today, an act that perpetuates a cycle of revenge attacks in the world's newest nation.
Tens of thousands of protesting Nigerians defied an order to end a three-day-old strike on Wednesday as unions threatened oil production and a mob rampaged in one city, leaving a police officer dead.