Zimbabwe has directed banks not to provide services to a local unit of South African owned platinum company, Zimplats, after it continued to put money in offshore accounts.

The UN rights chief wants Western countries to suspend sanctions against Robert Mugabe and his close aides.

Algeria's Constitutional Council has given final seat tallies from the parliamentary elections.

The Muslim Brotherhood said that its candidate, Mohammed Morsi, was leading in the early stages of Egypt’s presidential vote.

The candidate of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood won a spot in a run-off election, according to partial results.

Voters in Lesotho go to the polls in a wide-open election that analysts say could end up without a clear result.

A Malian journalist who has been missing for days was kidnapped by armed men, a family member said.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton congratulated Egypt on its "historic" presidential election.

Al Jazeera's Sherine Tadros reports on the day many Egyptians have been waiting their whole lives for.

A lawyer for Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali says calls for the deposed Tunisian leader to face the death penalty are politically motivated.

Five people were killed and nine others were wounded when a shell hit the minibus they were using to flee fighting in Somalia.

Egyptians have voted for the second day in what appears to be a fraught contest between Islamists and former officials of ousted president Hosni Mubarak.

A Burkina Faso governor says 30 people from the Peul ethnic group have been killed in fighting near the border with Mali.

A grenade attack near a Kenyan refugee camp has seriously injured three people.

Sudan and South Sudan have agreed to restart talks with the aim of ending hostilities and settling border disputes.

Zimbabwe’s president has lashed out at the West for denying a Nigerian a chance to head the World Bank.

Far less Egyptians turned out to vote in the morning hours of the second and final day of voting, it has been reported.

Gunmen shot dead a Somali radio reporter in Mogadishu, the sixth journalist to be killed in the war-torn country this year alone.

Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa says SADC could be a peaceful region if its member countries fought crime together.

Nomad cattle herders have killed five villagers in clashes that displaced 3 500 in Batangafo.