A Cairo court convicted ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak of embezzlement on Wednesday, sentencing him to three years in prison.
Egyptian prosecutors said on Wednesday that strong evidence supported the charges of murdering protesters against former President Hosni Mubarak and some former government officials.
Two Kenyan government officials escaped death narrowly after the car in which they were patrolling in missed a remote controlled explosive device.
Four people were injured Wednesday when armed factions exchanged gunfire in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, witnesses said.
Uganda's top university is to award Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki an honorary doctorate degree for his pan-African service and steady leadership in the region.
Libyans with ties to ousted leader Muammar Gadhafi will be banned from running in elections under a bill drafted by the country's new rulers.
A pregnant mother living in South Africa's Western Cape is being investigated for allegedly murdering three of her children, authorities said on Sunday.
At least 50 people were killed Saturday in a communal clash in Nigeria's southeastern state of Ebonyi, a local government official has said.
A Tunisian border patrol was hijacked on Saturday afternoon by an armed Libyan group in the governorate of Ben Guerdane, Tunisia's southern gateway to Libya, the state- run press agency TAP reported on Sunday.
Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency on Saturday in four northern states which were hit by months of violence.
Kenya's onslaught on Al-Shabaab and the intensified clampdown by African Union peacekeepers from the AMISOM mission in the capital Mogadishu have opened new safe corridors.
Somali government on Friday condemned as "barbaric" the killing of two aid workers with the Medcines Sans Frontier (MSF) in Mogadishu Thursday by local worker of the medical aid agency.
A bomb explosion killed four people on Friday in Nigeria's troubled city of Maiduguri, police said.