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Opponents and supporters of ousted Tunisian president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and his wife have dismissed their trial in absentia Monday as a "charade" and a disappointment, saying that the trial, which lasted only six hours, was not taken seriously.
The Libyan capital of Tripoli faced severe water and food shortages Saturday as the country's transitional authorities turned their attention to Sirte, Muammar Gaddafi's hometown, which they vowed to take by force should negotiations fail.
Police fired teargas on Friday to break up a protest in Tunis by thousands of Islamists demanding the imposition of Islamic law amid growing tensions with secularists. Some protesters tried to force their way into the prime minister's office.
Egypt's leading Islamist parties won 65% of votes in the Dec. 14 second round of parliamentary elections, the electoral committee said Saturday, with the Muslim Brotherhood's party taking 36.5% and the Salafists winning 28.78%.
A document claiming that late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi had agreed to donate €50 million to French President Nicolas Sarkozy's 2007 campaign is a fake, the head of Libya's National Transitional Council said Wednesday.
Sunday’s session of the trial of Egypt’s former Interior Minister Habib el-Adli (pictured) on charges of killing protesters was adjourned amid tensions. Hosni Mubarak's trial is due to resume Monday.
Representatives of Libya's National Transitional Council said on Sunday that they had unearthed a mass grave of at least 1,200 prisoners slain by Muammar Gaddafi's regime following the 1996 Abu Salim prison uprising in Tripoli.
Voting has resumed in Egypt’s historic elections a day after eager voters formed long queues to participate in the country's first democratic polls since the end of three decades of dictatorship.
Half-a-century ago, representatives of the French government and the main Algerian nationalist party signed the Evian Accords ending the Algerian War. But it also unleashed a series of traumatic events, which France is not keen to revisit.
Former president Nelson Mandela celebrates his 93rd birthday Monday with a visit to his childhood village. His foundation has asked people to do 67 minutes of voluntary work, to represent the years he devoted to South Africa's political struggle.
Libya’s de facto prime minister, Mahmoud Jibril, on Thursday called for unity among the Libyan people as a deadline for pro-Gaddafi loyalists to surrender loomed and the ousted leader exhorted his followers to keep fighting.
Liberian presidential candidate Winston Tubman (pictured) said he would not participate in his country's run-off poll next week, adding that his party refused to grant legitimacy to "a corrupt political process".
South African mining company Impala Platinum, the world's number-two producer, said it fired 13,000 workers after they staged an illegal strike for better pay on Monday. That brings the number sacked by the company in the past month to 17,200.
Southern Sudanese will celebrate the birth of their new country on July 9 after voting for secession from the north in a January referendum. But the joy of independence is being threatened by a new wave of violence and ethnic strife.
Reporters scouring the battle-scarred Libyan capital have found the remains of dozens of civilians and detainees who appear to have been executed by Gaddafi loyalists as rebels moved into the city.
Kenyan troops have crossed the Somalian border in pursuit of the al Shabaab rebels who they hold responsible for a spate of recent kidnappings of foreigners in Kenya, officials said Sunday.
A series of attacks in northern Nigeria that were claimed as revenge killings by the Boko Haram militant Islamist group left at least 46 people dead, medical sources said on Saturday, amid continuing fighting between militants and security forces.
At least 373 people were injured and a soldier was killed in Cairo on Friday as Egyptian forces clashed with protesters demanding an end to military rule. Authorities imposed an overnight curfew on the area near the defence ministry.
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