A Cairo court convicted ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak of embezzlement on Wednesday, sentencing him to three years in prison.
More than 20 Chinese nationals have gone missing after an attack by rebels at Sudan's South Kordofan area, the Chinese Embassy in Khartoum confirmed.
China on Sunday confirmed that a camp belonging to a Chinese company was attacked by rebels in Sudan.
Over 20 heads of state and government arrived at the new African Union (AU) headquarter several minutes before the opening of the 18th AU summit on Sunday.
Syria's analysts and observers brushed off the possibility of internationalizing the Syrian crisis after the Arab League (AL) decided to suspend its observer mission in Syria on Saturday.
An armed group belonging to Sudan People's Liberation Army attacked Saturday a site of a Chinese company operating in the field of roads in South Kordofan state.
Year of the Dragon Forever Stamp, issued on Monday by the US postal Service to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year, was welcomed by the public in the Houston area, Texas.
Egyptian lawmakers elected on Monday Mohamed Saad Katatni as speaker of the new People's Assembly.
Nigeria's police in northern Kano state on Monday said 186 people were killed by the Boko Haram extremists.
Libya's caretaker interior minister Monday dismissed as baseless reports claiming the Libyan town of Bani Walid had been taken over by supporters of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, local media reported.
Officials of northern Nigeria 's Kano State government said that about 150 persons lost their lives in Friday's terrorist attacks which rocked the state capital of Kano.
South Sudan announced on Saturday that it has started to take steps to build a new pipeline through eastern Africa to export its oil.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday voiced his deep concern at the "continuing tensions" in the border area between Sudan and South Sudan, and called on the parties concerned "to do everything possible to reach agreement" in their current talks.