Egyptian troops and policemen began sweeps of north Sinai on Tuesday ahead of a possible showdown with heavily armed gunmen who abducted seven security personnel, officials said. A senior interior ministry official told AFP a "campaign has been going on for half an hour", while a policeman taking part in the  more...

Official assurances about the improving health of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, hospitalised in France in April, have failed to convince many Algerians, as analysts warn that hiding such details is harder than it was. On Tuesday, France's defence ministry said Bouteflika was moved from the Val-de-Grace  more...

United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, and World Bank Group President, Dr. Jim Yong Kim, will make an official one-day visit to Uganda on Friday. The trip to Uganda is part of a historic joint three country visit to Africa's Great Lakes region from May 22 – 24 in support of a recent landmark peace  more...

Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt will go back on trial after the nation's highest court threw out his genocide and war crimes conviction in the latest twist in complex proceedings. Rios Montt went on trial in March on charges of ordering the massacre of indigenous Ixil Maya people in the 1980s as  more...

The government of Japan has awarded the Second Hideyo Noguchi Prize for Africa to Dr. Alex Godwin Coutinho of Uganda for his outstanding contributions in the medical services. Dr. Coutinho, a renowned Ugandan physician won the Prize for Medical Services for his pioneering efforts to expand access to  more...