[Essam Tarek woke on Thursday morning when a bomb blast, targeting the Egyptian Interior Minister’s convoy, shook his neighborhood, in Cairo’s suburban Nasr City area. “I went to the balcony and I saw cars full of fire and people running scared. People…

[The United Nations envoy to the Great Lakes region says she will be direct with Kigali about evidence of Rwandan support for the M23 rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Mary Robinson also hopes the recent military advances against the…

[Kenya is preparing to employ drones as part of increased security operations along its borders with Somalia and Ethiopia to monitor and halt the movements of al-Shabaab and gunrunners, security officials told Sabahi. Drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles, are needed to help…

[South African ex-President Nelson Mandela is spending a fourth day in a Pretoria hospital where he is being treated for a recurrent lung infection. The office of President Jacob Zuma says the 94-year-old remains in a serious but stable condition. Relatives, including…

[YOKOHAMA — Africa will be an engine for world growth in coming decades, Japanese Premier Shinzo Abe said on Monday, wrapping up a meeting in which Tokyo pledged significant aid as it tries to match China’s reach on the continent. Mr Abe…

[Army begins operation against fighters as fighter jets and helicopter gunships deployed in country’s northeast. Nigerian forces have launched attack on Boko Haram strongholds in the country’s northeast region, security sources have told Reuters news agency, amid deployment of fighter jets and…

[World body admits it should have done more to prevent 2010-2012 tragedy, finding half of those who died were children. Almost 260,000 people, half of them young children, died of hunger during the last famine in Somalia, according to a UN report…

[At least 20 vehicles loaded with anti-aircraft guns block road as 200 armed men demand removal of Gaddafi-era staff. Armed men have surrounded Libya’s foreign ministry in the capital, Tripoli, to push demands that officials who had worked for deposed leader Muammar…

[Un attentat à la voiture piégée. Un véhicule a explosé mardi matin devant l’ambassade de France en Libye, à Tripoli. Deux gendarmes français sont blessés. Un grièvement, l’autre n’a que des égratignures. D’après des témoins, le quartier est méconnaissable. Le bâtiment abritant…

[UNITED NATIONS: Rwanda won a behind-the-scenes battle Monday to keep the U.N. Security Council from recommending any role for the International Criminal Court in solving conflicts, violence and human rights abuse in Africa, saying the Hague-based court “condemns crimes committed by some…