The papers in Egypt are, understandably, dominated by election-related news. Voters go to the polls in the first round of the process to elect a new president today and tomorrow.
African forces backing Somali government troops say they have launched a carefully planned operation to bring security and stability to the people of the Afgoye corridor, a rural area where ...
A key Egyptian youth movement is readying itself to protect Egypt’s presidential polls from electoral fraud with a 10,000-strong team of election observers.
Proposed plans to change the interim constitution before Egypt’s landmark presidential election have made some candidates nervous - enough to break the 48 hour campaign silence rule.
The trial has opened in Paris of six Somalis charged with taking the 30 crew of luxury sailing ship Le Ponant hostage in the pirate-infested waters of the Gulf of Aden in 2008.
Kenya's Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta's political career hits a sticky patch, criticism of the Ugandan government for its response to the outbreak of nodding disease in the north of the ...
Rumours that Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe may be about to retire, the possibility of a political comeback for South Africa's Julius Malema and who are Africa's most unpopular leaders are the stories ...
Our focus is on Nigeria where a political storm is blowing after 19 northern state governors offered strong backing to former military leader Mohammadu Buhari, in the wake of his remarks ...