Somali Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon condemned on Wednesday the suicide bomb attack on the United Nations Common Compound in Mogadishu, immediately claimed by terror group Al Shabaab.The militant group claimed responsibility for what officials are calling a suicide bomb attack on a United Nations  more...

Egypt's tourism minister resigned in protest on Wednesday after President Mohamed Morsi appointed a new governor for Luxor from an Islamist party linked to a massacre of holidaymakers in the temple city. Hesham Zazou said he "cannot continue in the role of tourism minister" a day after the appointment of  more...

The Ivorian government will live up to its commitments to allow the quick implementation of the roadmap for the return to its original headquarters in Abidjan of the African Development Bank (AfDB) in 2014, the Ivorian Prime Minister Daniel Kablan Duncan reassured.Duncan was speaking on Tuesday at the end of  more...

The Afghan government on Wednesday lashed out at US efforts to broker peace with the Taliban, suspending crucial security talks with Washington and threatening to boycott prospective contacts with the insurgents in Qatar. Kabul issued two strongly worded statements threatening to sabotage US efforts to start  more...

The mausoleums of Timbuktu have been destroyed. But most of the manuscripts which constitute the great literary treasure of the desert holy city do still exist. That is no miracle but the result of the patient and brave work of many Malians who scooped the fragile papers and ferried them out in secret.  more...